http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=843040The president of a non-partisan seniors' advocacy group says two U.S. senators who decided not to seek re-election are the first victims of a senior citizen tsunami.
Democratic Senators Byron Dorgan (North Dakota) and Chris Dodd (Connecticut), members of their party's leadership on Capitol Hill, have both announced they will not seek re-election. They were among the Democratic majority in the Senate that voted en masse for the controversial healthcare reform bill just before Christmas.
60 Plus logoJim Martin, president of the 60 Plus Association, says senior citizens are outraged over the proposed healthcare reform. "They're upset [and] they feel betrayed by these massive cuts to Medicare -- and that's what it amounts to," he states. "We're talking about half-a-trillion dollars worth of cuts to Medicare."
Martin acknowledges that the nation's healthcare system does need to be reformed. "[But] you don't take a wrecking ball to a healthcare system that is acknowledged perhaps as the best in the world," he exclaims. "Yes, it's expensive -- that's what we've got to do is bring the costs down."
He argues that consumers should be able to purchase health insurance across state lines, and that any viable healthcare reform effort must include tort reform.
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