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"LIFE begins at retirement."
Or so we thought.
According to polls, President Obama’s health care overhaul plans are raising significant concerns from the elderly.
In his Washington Post op-ed piece entitled "Protecting Our Seniors," RNC Chairman Michael Steele discusses that "the Democrats’ [health care] plan will hurt American families, small businesses and health-care providers by raising care costs, increasing the deficit, and not allowing patients to keep a doctor or insurance plan of their choice. Furthermore, under the Democrats’ plan, senior citizens will pay a steeper price and will have their treatment options reduced or rationed."
To remedy the situation, Republicans have proposed a seniors’ "health care bill of rights" – an outline of six principles which includes "protecting Medicare, prohibiting rationing of health care based on age and making sure that the government doesn’t get between seniors and their doctors," according to the Associated Press.
"Republicans want reform that should, first, do no harm, especially to our seniors. That is why Republicans support a Seniors’ Health Care Bill of Rights, which we are introducing today, to ensure that our greatest generation will receive access to quality health care. We also believe that any health-care reform should be fully paid for, but not funded on the backs of our nation’s senior citizens," Steele asserts in his op-ed article.
Adding injury to the senior citizens’ plight is the grim possibility that social security checks may shrink next year, "the first time in a generation that payments would not rise," says the Associated Press.
By law, Social Security benefits cannot decline. But Social Security trustees are projecting that there won’t be a cost of living adjustment (COLA) in the next two years.
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