Last spring, I wrote a piece for the American Thinker in which I described the President’s plan to stiff millions of seniors on Medicare Advantage. Karl Rove thinks this is dangerous for the Dems:
There are roughly 23,400 seniors on average in a congressional district who have Medicare Advantage, but who face losing it if Mr. Obama has his way. That’s enough votes to tip most competitive House and Senate races.
And, make no mistake about it, seniors like Medicare Advantage. It is particularly popular among minority seniors, who like it because of its broad array of benefits and low out-of-pocket costs.
Moroever, a survey conducted last year by Ayres, McHenry & Associates shows that Medicare beneficiaries are overwhelmingly against cutting funds to the Medicare Advantage program:
Seniors disapprove of cutting payments to doctors who treat Medicare patients. But they disapprove even more strongly of cutting Medicare Advantage …
Seniors are, of course, very active politically. They vote. If these folks think the Dems are going to take MA away from them, they will register their displeasure at the ballot box.
And if you are under the impression that a mere 23,000 votes isn’t enough to make a difference in next year’s congressional elections, Ed Morrissey provides the following statistic:
The average difference between Democrats and Republicans in House races in 2008, by the way, was 22,979.
Let’s hope the President and his congressional accomplices are dumb enough to piss these people off.
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