Peters to cut Medicare benefits

According to Representative Gary Peters and his progressive cronies in Washington, the health care bill that President Obama is attempting to ram through Congress will not increase the deficit and promotes fiscal responsibility.

Let’s ignore the fact that in 1967 the government estimated Medicare would “only” cost $12 billion in 1990 but actually cost $110 billion and now exceeds $400 billion. Also, let’s ignore that every addition to Medicare has cost between 2 and 17 times the original estimates.

Further, let’s believe Obama's claim that the cost of the new entitlement program will be covered by reductions in Medicare coverage even though Congress has never been able to reduce that coverage in the past when faced by angry constituents.

So assuming what Obama claims is true. I have one question for Rep. Peters that I hope he’ll answer before the November elections:

In keeping with your support for Obamacare, when can we expect you to vote for those proposed cuts in Medicare benefits?

[Letter to the Editor - Farmington Observer. Published 03/25/2010.]