Medicare Does Not Equal Health Care

Medicare Does Not Equal Health Care — Old friend Tom Flocco of Upper Providence sent  several links taking shots at Congressman Pat Meehan (R-Pa7) including this one to a YouTube video making the rounds on left-leaning sites accusing him of voting to “abolish” Medicare.

Meehan had supported a Paul Ryan plan which made the tax-funded safety net for seniors more like the health care offered federal workers. Ryan had tried to add an option giving seniors tax money to buy their own insurance programs rather than be entirely dependent on the government bureaucracies that some health care providers are now taking pains with which to avoid being associated.

It was an attempt  to save Medicare. If something is not done soon there will be, in practice, no Medicare and Social Security. The safety net will be gone.

Sure, Medicare and Social Security will exist on paper. Those eligible for them will get nice-looking cards saying they have a “right” to benefits; a right that will be confirmed by bureaucrats and computer screens when they go to use them.

But it will soon be found that being told one has a “right” to benefits is not the same as actually having them.

Health care is not government workers or insurance cards. It is competent doctors, nurses and pharmacists. If we don’t start trying to understand this concept we will not have health care.

Also  Bob Guzzardi sent a link to this remarkably positive article by John P. Martin that appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer on Bucks County Tea Party activists Anastasia Przybylski and Ana Puig. Guess Inquirer people have 401Ks too.

Thanks Bob.

Medicare Does Not Equal Health Care