Roy Blunt suggests Medicare, Medicaid were mistakes

[babylonsister]

This should go over well.

http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2009/07/10/blunt-suggests-medicare-medicaid-were-mistakes/


Blunt suggests Medicare, Medicaid were mistakes
@ 10:49 am by Aaron Blake


Rep. Roy Blunt, who is the GOP frontrunner for Senate in Missouri, suggested Friday that the government never should have created Medicare or Medicaid.

Speaking on 93.9 FM in Columbia, Mo., the former House GOP whip, who is leading Republican efforts to counter the Democrats on their health care proposals, said it might have been best if government never got involved in health care in the first place.

"You could certainly argue that government should have never gotten into the health care business, and that might have been the best argument of all to figure out how people could have had more access to the competitive marketplace," Blunt said. "The government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare and later with Medicaid. And government already distorts the marketplace. A government competitor would drive all of the other competitors away. What we should be doing it creating more competition."

Here's the link to the interview. The comments begin at about the 4:52 mark.

Blunt is running, along with Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan (D), for the seat of retiring Sen. Kit Bond (R-Mo.).

[LynneSin]

1. Ironically I consder Roy Blunt a mistake too

:rofl:

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. LOL As someone on state/fed healthcare I have to agree with you.

[liberal N proud]

2. All republicans think they were mistakes

until they are the beneficiaries.

Then they deny that they benefit from the programs.

It the case of the Roy Blunt's, they have the mentality that if you are not rich, you can die.

[redqueen]

3. Keep talkin, GOP... keep talkin.

[walkaway]

4. The entire republican party should run on that platform in 2010

It's a sure way out of the wilderness for them.

[RagAss]

5. Talk about turning on the base. Those old haters live off of Medicare !

[tech3149]

6. Yea right!

If it weren't for Medicare, my parents would probably have died 10 or 15 years ago. If it's such a big mistake, how come it still seems to perform its function decades after its inception? I guess the primary qualification for Republicon candidates is to have a healthy level of stupid. I feel sorry for the 20% of the public that will listen to this tool and don't question what he says. I'm an obstinant SOB and question everything I hear.

Just keep talking Blunt, the more you say the more people will vote Democratic.

[Faryn Balyncd]

8. K&R- but who needs Roy Blunt when Zeke Emanuel himself wants to PRIVATIE MEDICARE?

Everybody knows that the corporatist Republicans would like to privatize both Medicare and Social Security.

But the corporatists that are the biggest threats are not the Republicans, but are the corporatist "Democrats" within the administration.

With Rahm's brother Zeke Emanuel, who authored the Emanuel-Fuchs all-private-insurance voucherized plan which would privatize Medicare and Medicaid, peddles his corporatist message as a "White House adviser", who needs to fear Roy Blunt and the Republicans?


http://journals.democraticunderground.com/madfloridian/3684

[gordianot]

9. The entire GOP Blunt family is a mistake.

I am fairly certain Roy considers son Matt a mistake.