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Wednesday, August 22, 2012

If you like Medicare and Medicaid, and do not want federal cost-shifting to the states, you do NOT like Romney/Ryan.

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The screen capture is from MN Progressive Project, here. You can follow that link and its link, or read the explanatory letter from a year ago, and see the Sixth District impacts, for Medicare and Medicaid, under Romney/Ryan policy. I now qualify for Medicare and prefer it to be unchanged. Funding capability is there, as long as there is a U.S. House and Senate will to do the right thing. And fund availability at the federal level can be improved immediately, by keeping the Bush tax cuts for those with taxable incomes (not gross income but taxable) under $250,000 and allowing the cuts above that level to expire. That is simple and a step toward readjusting the entire top bracket tax levels back to prior levels; this Juan Cole link. I give that link because all should read it. It presents a host of charted data showing the mischief started in 1980 when the friend of Bonzo took office. Juan Cole has authored some quite interesting stuff lately, so check it out, including this item: