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From: LindyBill	6/16/2009 9:15:51 PM
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When the Government Runs Health Insurance [James C. Capretta] President Obama's announcement on Saturday that he was proposing an additional $313 billion in Medicare and Medicaid cuts over ten years — on top of the $309 billion in his 2010 budget — is noteworthy for a couple of reasons, despite the meager coverage it has gotten in most newspapers. For starters, there's the sheer hypocrisy of it all. Recall that then-Senator Obama based his final push for the presidency in October 2008 largely on a coordinated attack on the health-care plan put forward by his Republican opponent, Sen. John McCain. Senator Obama told Americans that the McCain plan would be bad for the country because it would tax employer-paid health benefits "for the first time in history" and impose damaging Medicare cuts to partially pay for the costs of the tax credits McCain was offering. Well, guess what? President Obama is now all in for massive Medicare cuts, and he's changed his tune on taxing health benefits too. The Corner on National Review Online (16 June 2009) corner.nationalreview.com

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