Bush's Budget Favors Defense; Slows Medicare Spending
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(WashPost) President Bush plans to propose a $2.7 trillion budget tomorrow that would shrink most parts of the government unrelated to the nation's security while slowing spending on Medicare by $36 billion during the next five years, according to White House documents.
The spending plan Bush is to recommend to Congress will call for the elimination or reduction of 141 programs -- for a savings of $14.5 billion -- across a broad swath of federal agencies, according to administration and congressional officials who have had access to budget documents in advance. Wide-ranging as they are, those cuts pale in comparison with the White House's attempt to carve money from Medicare -- the first tangible result from a vow the president made in his State of the Union address last week to constrain the massive entitlement programs for the elderly and the poor.
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I strongly disagree with the new budget proposal introduced by the President, which includes slashing funds for Medicare and, more importantly, Medicaid. There are almost three million Americans who suffer from severe mental illness in our country. The lucky ones have Medicaid to help pay for medications and doctors. These people, without Medicaid, are far more susceptible to homelessness. These are the most vulnerable of our society and they need protection. As a mother of a son with schizophrenia, I am very concerned about him and others like him. These people, without medication and care, cannot function in society and often end up in the streets. A homeless mentally ill person is like a two-year old left to wander the streets without care or attention. I urge you to vote "no" on cuts to health care for the mentally ill. Thank you.
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Great, I agree with comments made by "Gviviani", so what? Does this help prevent George W. to do what he plans to? Does anyone have a suggestion that could stop the White House from implementing the planned cuts? We need ACTION! Complaints by themselves do not accomplish anything!!!
It was Ronnie Raygun who showed the repugnants...
how to save money on the mentally ill. He closed all the institutions in California and forced all those people to live on the streets.
Some of them are still on the streets.
These kinds of cuts are both morally and ethically bankrupt.
A mind once expanded can never return to its original dimensions.
Anne Hathaway: 1556-1623
The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.
Louis Pasteur