About Those “Drastic Cuts” to Medicare, Mr. President…
Speaker Pelosi just responded that there would be no cuts to Medicare benefits in the Democrat proposals. However, in an October 2008 speech, then-Senator Obama attacked his presidential opponent by stating that “Senator McCain would pay for part of his [health care] plan by making drastic cuts in Medicare…even though Medicare is already facing a looming shortfall.” How exactly are the Medicare proposals the President is now endorsing – which Speaker Pelosi said would not impact beneficiaries – different from the “drastic cuts in Medicare” the President opposed during the campaign?