President Pelosi supports expanding Medicare....

by Aaron Thu Dec 10, 2009 8:07 pm

Of course she does. It gives the governemnt more control over health care. Never mind that Medicare LOSES 18% of it's budget, about $60 billion dollars a year to fraud, waste, corruption, mismanagement and pure ineptness, has an unfunded liability in the neighborhood of $45,000,000,000,000.00 (that's trillion for the liberal impaired) and who's trust fund is set to run out of money in about 8 years.

After all, they're going to pay for healthcare but cutting Medicare.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi voiced support for one element of the tentative accord -- to expand Medicare, the government health insurance program for those age 65 or older.

"There's certainly a great deal of appeal about putting people 55 and older on Medicare," Pelosi told reporters as the Senate conducted its 11th day of debate on sweeping legislation.

"That is something that people in the House have advocated for years," Pelosi said.

But she withheld comment on the rest of the deal reached by Senate Democratic negotiators on Tuesday, saying, "We haven't seen the paper."

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