Tick Tock: Obama’s Countdown To Medicare’s Bankruptcy
While Medicare Inches Towards Insolvency, All Obama Has Offered Is Lots Of Talk, Lots Of Demagoguery, And No Plan

FOR YEARS, OBAMA PROMISED AMERICANS HE WOULD TACKLE MEDICARE REFORM

2005: Then-Sen. Obama Attacked President Bush for Not Tackling Medicare. OBAMA: “The only thing I’d add, and then I’ll turn it over to Dick is to talk, is to mention that despite the President staking his domestic policy agenda in his second term on Social Security reform, the real crisis in terms of funding is not Social Security, its Medicare. Which is breaking down rapidly and this most recent legislation exacerbates that fiscal crisis. And that’s something for some reason the president seems entirely unwilling to tackle.”(Senator Barack Obama, Remarks At An Illinois Weekly Policy Update, Washington, D.C., 2/10/05)

2006: From Obama’s The Audacity Of Hope: “[T]he Two Main Government-Funded Health-Care Programs – Medicare And Medicaid – Really Are Broken …” “As vital as it may be to raise the wages of American workers and improve their retirement security, perhaps our most pressing task is to fix our broken health-care system. Unlike Social Security, the two main government-funded health-care programs – Medicare and Medicaid – really are broken; without any changes, by 2050 these two entitlements, along with Social Security, could grow to consume as large a share of our national economy as the entire federal budget does today. The addition of a hugely expensive prescription drug benefit that provides limited coverage and does nothing to control the cost of drugs has only made the problem worse. And the private system has evolved into a patchwork of inefficient bureaucracies, endless paperwork, overburdened providers, and dissatisfied patients.” (Barack Obama, The Audacity Of Hope, 2006, p.183)

2007:While Discussing Entitlement Reform, Obama Declared “You’re Not Ready To Lead If You Can’t Tell Us Where You’re Going.” OBAMA: “Because you’re not ready to lead if you can’t tell us where you’re going.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At A Campaign Event, Des Moines, IA, 10/27/07)

2008: Then-Sen. Obama Said During The Presidential Debates That Entitlement Reform Was Something That He Would Like To Do In His First Term. NBC’S TOM BROKAW: “Would you give Congress a date certain to reform Social Security and Medicare within two years after you take office? Because in a bipartisan way, everyone agrees, that’s a big ticking time bomb that will eat us up maybe even more than the mortgage crisis.” SEN. BARACK OBAMA: “Well, Tom, we’re going to have to take on entitlements and I think we’ve got to do it quickly. We’re going to have a lot of work to do, so I can’t guarantee that we’re going to do it in the next two years, but I’d like to do in the my first term as president.” (Sen. Barack Obama, Remarks At Presidential Debate, Nashville, TN, 10/7/08)

2009: Obama Said The Problem With Entitlements “Is Not Social Security, It’s Medicare.” OBAMA:“The big problem we have with entitlements is not Social Security, it’s Medicare.  Medicare and Medicaid, the two health care programs that the federal government helps support, those are the things that are really breaking the bank.” (President Obama, Remarks At A Town Hall, Arnold, MO, 4/29/09)

2010: Obama Said Entitlement Reform Should Not Be Politicized In Order To Tackle It Effectively: OBAMA: “That’s why i say if we’re going to frame these debates in ways that allow us to solve them, then we can’t start off by figuring out, A, who’s to blame, B, how can we make the american people afraid of the other side.” (President Barack Obama, Remarks To The GOP Issues Conference, Baltimore, MD, 1/29/10)

2011: Obama Said That “If We Didn’t Do Anything, Then Medicare And Medicaid Would Gobble Up Basically The Entire Federal Budget.” OBAMA: “The bigger problem is Medicare and Medicaid. And the reason that’s a problem is because healthcare costs keep on going up faster than inflation, people’s wages, people’s incomes, at the same time as folks are getting older, so we’ve got more people into the system. And if we didn’t do anything, then Medicare and Medicaid would gobble up basically the entire federal budget.” (President Barack Obama, Remarks At A Town Hall , Alpha, IL., 8/17/11)

2012: Demagoguery, Distortion, and Devoid Of A Plan At All.

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