Republicans often accuse Democrats of trying to scare seniors about GOP plans for Medicare and Social Security. However, Democrats’ warnings are rooted in reality. Republicans have tried to undermine these critical social insurance plans for years. Unfortunately, McCain and Palin are no different.

Take Medicare. The non-partisan Tax Policy Center estimates that McCain’s health plan would cost $1.3 trillion over ten years. To pay for this, Senator McCain has proposed some minor changes in Medicare; however, no expert believes these can achieve the savings needed to finance the McCain-Palin health plan. The Wall Street Journal has reported that McCain will pay for his plan by making major cuts in Medicare
and Medicaid (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122315505846605217…).  read more »

Check out comments below from Chuck Todd on Meet the Press yesterday. Make every senior you know aware of the damage McCain-Palin will do to Social Security & Medicare and urge them to vote Obama-Biden.

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MR. BROKAW: And, Chuck, as I’ve been listening to these two campaigns and watching their ads, it seems to me if you’re a senior citizen in America, they’re probably calling you up and say, “We’ll come over and do your
laundry and drive you to the early bird special if that’s what it takes to get you to vote for us.”

MR. TODD: Well, you know, we talk all about young voters, and we talk about African-Americans, we talk about this, we talk about that. This thing is  read more »

John McCain claims to be the candidate of change. However, when it comes to health care, the change he offers will make things worse, not better.

Like President Bush, Senator McCain seeks to undermine our system of employer-based insurance (EBI), which, since World War II has provided
health care coverage to millions of workers. Today, EBI continues to be the major form of coverage for employees and their families.

Currently, individuals who receive EBI do not pay taxes on it. Under the Bush-McCain plan, however, these benefits would count as income, making them
subject to taxation. Senator McCain would offer families a $5000 tax credit to compensate for their increased taxes or to buy coverage of their own in  read more »