Reply #49: Slowing the program's

[Nicholas_J]

growth can only be accomplished by cutting back on benefits, or increasing the amount that beneficiaries must pick up as their co-pays, or greatly increase the monthly premium
Dena is dead wrong and this is a simply attempt on the part of Dean to again, balance the budget on the back of people with fixed incomes, rather than addressing the COST of medical care, as he refused to do as governor of Vermont, as indicated in Shumlins comments. Dean. as governor. allowed his largest campaign contributors, the health insurance industry, and the pharmaceutical industry to rape the state six ways from sunday, and there is no indication that he has changed his philosophy.