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To: FJB who wrote (587447)	9/25/2010 1:09:56 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576923

Economists Jagadeesh Gokhale and Kent Smetters estimate that the long-term imbalance between Medicare costs and revenues under existing law is something like $36 trillion, more than five times the current national debt. Given a problem of this magnitude, the gestures toward reform in the Medicare bill—limited medical savings accounts, higher premiums for beneficiaries making more than $80,000 a year, and a six-city experiment with private competition that's supposed to begin in 2010—are pretty pathetic. Since the GOP blasted the bill by saying that it cut medicare benefits for seniors (among the many scare tactics they employed to defeat the bill) and thereby further limiting any opportunity for deeper reform, what's the answer? What would your side do if in power? Paul ryan's proposals are not even part of the GOP platform...nowhere in the "pledge" to be found. So what would the GOP do beside bullshit the american people with TARP debt reduction non sense? Al