The republicans are going to take back congress because the Dems now have 2 choices
1: They can allow the cuts in medicare to take place this fall
2: They can delay it past election day
If they take option #1, what will happen is that medicare payments to doctors will be cut by 21%. This will mean that a whole lot of doctors, hospitals, and hospices will no longer take medicare patients. This is why so many doctors refuse medicaid patients.
This means 2 things; Seniors, the most powerful demographic, are going to overwhelmingly vote against Democrats this november because this threatens the relationship between seniors and their doctors, and 2: The Democrats will lose one of their most successful rhetorical points used in elections. Democratic candidates routinely criticize republican candidates because the Republican candidate will, allegedly, cut medicare benefits to Seniors. This has never happened before, but Democrats every election season use it to great effect. This point no longer applies. The Democrats REALLY DID cut medicare benefits to seniors. So this will turn seniors overwhelmingly against democrats, which will kill democrats in elections for years to come
Or they could take option #2, which is to post-pone the medicare cuts past election day. This however will have disastrous consequences for Democrats because it will mean that the Democrats will have added tens or hundreds of billions of dollars to the Deficit. One of their biggest selling points, that this would bring fiscal responsibility to our government, will be exposed as a fraud and the Democrats will be seen, rightly, as tax-and-spend or borrow-and-spend liberals, and this will kill their image as it has thus far since Obama's election.
So the Dems are dead this November. Come 2013, this act will be repealed.
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