Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Cutting health care for seniors and selective outrage. The Romney/Ryan plan and Illinois Democrats’ plan are as close as two coats of paint. « Fred Klonsky

Cutting health care for seniors and selective outrage. The Romney/Ryan plan and Illinois Democrats’ plan are as close as two coats of paint. « Fred Klonsky:


Cutting health care for seniors and selective outrage. The Romney/Ryan plan and Illinois Democrats’ plan are as close as two coats of paint.

Democrats and many voters are justifiably outraged at the Romney/Ryan plan for Medicare.
If the GOP plan were to take effect it is projected that Medicare will go broke by 2016.
But where is the outrage when Illinois’ Democrats are proposing a similar assault on the health insurance of Illinois’ retired state employees?
Selective outrage? Election year opportunism? A double standard?
Yes. Yes. And you betcha.
Take Senate Bill 1313 which has already been signed by the Democratic Illinois Governor and impacts thousands of retired state employees who have had state subsidized health care. That promised subsidy is