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Publisher of leading Seniors’ Website raps Bush plans to curb Medicare, Medicaid in new budget...
Calls for Presidential Candidates of both political parties to clarify positions on Medicare role, related issues affecting well-being of elderly, low-income persons, people with disabilities

St. Louis, MO, January 31, 2008—The Publisher of www.TodaysSeniorsNetwork.com, one of America’s leading informational websites for Seniors today called anticipated plans by the Bush Administration to curb the growth of Medicare and Medicaid by huge cuts is the latest example of an attack by the Administration on the well-being of the elderly, low-income persons and people with disabilities.

“The Bush Administration has exhibited a total disregard for those people who are most in need of medical care or those who have through a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice earned a right to necessary medical care,” says Daniel Hines.

Hines says that the President is disingenuous in his claim that the cuts are necessary because of higher budget deficits projected for 2008 and 2009.

“The budget deficit is not the result of providing important services to segments of our population,” says Hines. 

“Rather, it reflects the disastrous results of years of millions upon millions of dollars spent in conducting a war that has not only drained us of thousands of lives of our courageous military, but led us to the verge of bankruptcy, and,  unnecessary tax cuts for those that needed them less than any other segment of our citizenry.”

Hines notes that the Administration plan also calls for drastic changes in the interpretation and application of existing regulations, meaning that there will be even more cuts with the denial of services because of bureaucratic rulings denying benefits.

That is why it is imperative that the Presidential candidates of both major political parties make clear their position on issues affecting the elderly, the low-income and the disabled, says Hines.

“Throughout the campaigns of virtually all of the remaining leading candidates, there has been virtually no attention paid the challenges facing people who are facing very real everyday issues,” Hines says. 

“Rather the process had become nothing more than charges about who did what when, who is the ‘best qualified’,  and the ‘claimed’ emergence of large groups of potential first-time voters whom, if they are to become a part of the electoral and governing process, must learn to take an interest in more than a myopic view of important issues.”