Bush's MediMadness

The Bush administration cuts for Medicaid or Medicare make absolutely no sense. Bush is pitching this has another tax cut. These spending proposals are dead in the water in a Democratic Congress.

Who will be hurt by the cuts are hospitals.

"I don't have a crystal ball, so I can't tell you whether a hospital will close in the coming year, but the financial condition of hospitals in New Jersey is the gravest that I have seen in 20 years," said Sean Hopkins, a health-care economist at the New Jersey Hospital Association.

Hopkins said that 17 New Jersey hospitals had closed in the last decade because of financial problems, including Medicare cutbacks.

Tampa General Hospital will be $17 million in the red. If the cuts go through. That will be the biggest debt in TGH's history.

Congresswoman Kathy Castor explained that most Medicaid patients pay no taxes. It is illogical for Bush to say he wants to cut Medicaid because Medicaid patients need a tax cut. You can't cut a tax that a person does not pay.

The White House is raising drug benefit premiums. The cost will be by the income bracket the patient falls into. The AAPP is against the income rates.

What we have here is a tax cuts for people who pay no taxes. A tax increse for upper-class retirees living on a fixed income. Hospitals being driven into debt.

Exactly who is this suppose to benefit? The Bushies keep fucking up health care because they spend more time illegally scrubbing the White House press briefing transcripts then figuring out how to make Medicaid and Medicare work. It's about priorities. The White House is more concerned with staying on message with tax cuts then figuring out the policy. If Bush actually got is health care spending proposals signed it would kill Republicans in 2008.

Clay Shaw lost his seat because of blind loyalty towards the President on Social Security. Republicans should be grateful that they are in minority party. The problem with the Washington GOP is most of them need someone to tell them how to vote. The casual follower of politics will tell you if Bush came up with the idea then it's probably bad. Republicans would vote in favor of Bush. Knowing that they are flushing their election chances in 2008.