You No-Good Son of a Bitch

Leave the goddamned Democratic Party, you asshole, if you DARE try to turn Medicare into Medicaid and thus force people who are "too rich" to buy scam insurance policies, assuming ANY of them will insure older people.

He is a motherfucking sack of shit. Get the hell out, Obama.

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You "means test" Medicare, you turn it into Medicaid. Medicaid is means-tested, not Medicare.

What a rotten sack of shit he is.

Later the White House had to issue a "clarification" to all of the outraged masses:

Currently, Medicare premiums for doctors and for prescription drugs are already means tested, meaning that couples making over $170,000 or singles over $85,000 (about 5% of Medicare beneficiaries) already pay somewhat higher Medicare premiums. What the President referenced today was his openness, as part of a potential big deal, to asking Medicare recipients over those high-income thresholds to pay modestly higher premiums. At no point did the Administration express openness to raising premiums on Medicare beneficiaries below those income levels. (Note that the Affordable Care Act already included a nominal freeze of those high income thresholds through 2019, resulting in modestly greater means-testing for high income Medicare beneficiaries).

Don't use the term "means test" which is used to determine eligibility for a program. Especially when referring to so-called entitlements.