Word: vouchers
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...debt, and the future savings on interest payments would go to Medicare. But that is a temporary fix, which is why some politicians are daring to say out loud that privatizing much or all of Medicare is inevitable. "People are moving in the direction of being essentially given a voucher, a certain sum of money, with the ability to have maximum flexibility to shop for whatever it is that suits them," House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich told reporters last week in a conference call arranged by the Republican National Committee...
Lieberman has also swallowed his convictions on another issue that most American agree on: school choice. When he was grilled about his anti-school voucher stance on August 14, he said, "If you ask me personally, I'm still for vouchers. But I understand how it is when you are vice-president." The next day, when a crowd of teacher's union members at the Democratic convention began to get testy about vouchers: "If you want me to stay silent on the issue, vote Gore/Lieberman in September." Integrity? Nobody ever said politicians were honorable. Joe Lieberman used...
...instance, Clinton couldn't quite muster the conviction required for a convincing response to the voucher questions (she's against them, but she and the President sent Chelsea to an exclusive private school); Lazio didn't have a cogent explanation for his vote against the Patient's Bill of Rights. Occasionally, during a defensive response, the Representative appeared petulant: "I am a doer!" he cried, in defense of his record. "I did get the job done...
...debt, and the future savings on interest payments would go to Medicare. But that is a temporary fix, which is why some politicians are daring to say out loud that privatizing much or all of Medicare is inevitable. "People are moving in the direction of being essentially given a voucher, a certain sum of money, with the ability to have maximum flexibility to shop for whatever it is that suits them," House Budget Committee chairman John Kasich told reporters last week in a conference call arranged by the Republican National Committee...
...Even so, that term--voucher--has proved to be radioactive in politics. Former candidate Bill Bradley learned that lesson when Gore used the word to paint Bradley's health-care plan as a paltry handout. There is a long history of such scorching moments in fights over health-care reform, particularly when they involve Medicare, a program that is literally a life-and-death matter to the nation's most engaged voting bloc, the elderly. Gingrich found out the hard way as he tried to restructure the program in 1995 to squeeze hundreds of billions of dollars...