Sep 25, 2009
Representative John Shadegg’s Caught Up In Double Talk on His Support for Ending Medicare
Representative John Shadegg's double talk on ending Medicare ‘as we know it' is just too much too take. In April, Representative Shadegg voted to ‘end Medicare as it's presently known,' but now he's talking out the other side of his mouth.
"Representative Shadegg is trying to have it both ways, claiming that he doesn't support ending Medicare just months after voting to ‘end Medicare as it's presently known,'" said Andy Stone, Western Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. "Arizona Seniors deserve to know: will Shadegg stand by his vote to end Medicare or will he continue the double talk?"
Background
- Yesterday, Representative John Shadegg said, "I don't support ending Medicare, where did you get that?" [Shadegg statement, 9/24/09]
- Atlantic Media Political Director Ron Brownstein recently wrote in National Journal, "Steele's pledge this week to 'protect Medicare' might have been more convincing had it not come five months after nearly four-fifths of House Republicans voted to literally end the program as we know it for all Americans younger than 55." [National Journal, 8/28/09]
- The Associated Press reported in April: "For their part, House Republicans are offering an alternative that eventually would end Medicare as it is presently known... The plan, drafted by Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, top Republican on the House Budget Committee, called for eventually replacing the traditional Medicare program with subsidies to help retirees enroll in private health care plans." [Associated Press, 4/2/09], [H CON RES 85, #191 4/2/09]
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