Crossposted from Hillbilly Report.
Seniors in Kentucky who are thinking about voting for Rand Paul better be careful what they wish for. It might come true. If we get our government hands off your Medicaire you better hope that Rand Paul does not get his way. You see, to turn everything over to the crooks on Wall St. Rand Paul and his ilk want to starve the beast. That means if you are a senior and on Medicare Rand Paul wants to starve YOU with a $2000 deductible if you get sick.
Rand Paul spoke his vision on Medicaire a while back and now Jack Conway is trying to let all seniors in Kentucky know what the Paul vision for our state and country entails. Listen to Paul for yourself from 2009:
Here is a transcript on what Paul has in mind for our seniors and the future of Medicare:
"Medicare is socialized medicine. People are afraid of that because ‘oh, you’ll say you’re against Medicare.’ No, I say we have to do something different. We can’t just eliminate Medicare. But we have to figure out how to get more to a market-based system.
"It’s counter-intuitive to a lot of people, but you have to pay for things if you want prices to come down. So you really need higher deductibles. And the real answer to Medicare would be a $2,000 deductible, but try selling that one in an election. But that’s the real answer is you have to pay for things. And when you do, but you also get rid of price controls.
"So you raise the deductible, you get rid of price controls, and you allow more competition. And you may have to allow more competition from other parties. Nurse practitioners, we already have some. Pharmacists. There have to be ways to allow medicine to come down."
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Jack Conway released an ad pounding Paul on his stance, even as his campaign sought to distance itself from it's own extreme ideology:
Paul campaign manager Jesse Benton said that if elected, Paul will work to preserve Medicare for future generations.
See Conway's ad against the Mad "$2000" Doctor here:
This seat is wide open going into the home stretch. Any inroads we can make into Republican seats could be huge in curbing Democratic losses in November. The more ads we can run showing the insane ideology of Rand Paul, the better. Go here to help Jack Conway win:
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