The Medicare wars have begun: sign up here to support the Republican plan

Ryan Streeter
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The Medicare wars have begun. Grab your gun.

If you support the GOP plan to reform and save Medicare, sign our petition here.

Democrats are feeling their oats after the New York special election. Even though the election was more about NY politics than Medicare, the Dems see the election results as a reason to demagogue the GOP plan to reform health care for seniors. Republicans need to respond not by running away from the Medicare issue (a real temptation for many), but by speaking with clarity about the reforms we need – even if clarity makes people uncomfortable.

In his WSJ column this week Karl Rove writes:

Next year, Republicans must describe their Medicare reforms plainly, set the record straight vigorously when Democrats demagogue, and go on the attack. Congressional Republicans—especially in the House—need a political war college that schools incumbents and challengers in the best way to explain, defend and attack on the issue of Medicare reform. They have to become as comfortable talking about Medicare in the coming year as they did in talking about health-care reform last year.

In the spirit of speaking plainly, and getting as many ordinary Americans as possible behind the GOP plan to reform Medicare, we are launching a sign-up sheet so you can show your support for the reform we need to save our country's future. Just click on this link...and join us in promoting a sound fiscal future for America.

Comments

[Dawn Carpenter]

You are quite right to pursue an aggressive strategy to persuade people of the need for the reform of Medicare. Here in England, we have a situation which parallels your own. However, Prime Minister David Cameron, faced with exactly the sort of scaremongering that you have experienced, has declared that he will "pause" the legislation for a "listening exercise" -- that is, he has taken legislation which had already been submitted to Parliament and was being processed toward final approval by the legislature, and put it on the shelf while public hearings and consultations are conducted. Of course it makes him look as though he has no confidence in the legislation prepared by his own ministers and discussed in his own cabinet, and our opponents are having a field day. I hope our Republican cousins won't make the same mistake.