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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (18905)	9/14/2009 12:01:34 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 103300

When Medicare was created in 1965, more Republicans voted against it than voted for it. In the House, 73 Republicans voted 'no' and 65 voted 'yes.' In the Senate, 14 GOP senators voted against Medicare, 13 voted for it. In 1995, the GOP-controlled House voted to cut $270 billion from future Medicare spending and tried to nudge seniors into privately run, but federally-funded insurance programs. "Philosophically these Republicans don't believe in Medicare and they're determined to find a way to destroy it," said President Clinton's spokesman Mike McCurry. But in 2003, it was Republican President George W. Bush who pushed for and signed into law the biggest Medicare expansion since 1965 with a prescription drug benefit. Most Republicans voted for it. msnbc.msn.com