The Daily Banter

Old People Could Be Their Own 'Death Panel'

From my column yesterday:

Mitt Romney holds a lead among seniors and the trend line is showing that they'll totally vote for the Republican nominee if the election were held today.

Meanwhile, according to a January Kaiser Health tracking poll, 50 percent of seniors don't like the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare") while just 30 percent hold a favorable view of the healthcare reform law.

Utterly baffling, especially considering how seniors need affordable healthcare in order to, you know, not die.

A Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services study determined that senior citizens more than any other demographic group of Americans benefit from Obamacare. The law hasn't even really kicked in fully and yet 14.3 million senior citizens have benefitted from the law's preventative care provisions. In other words, millions of old people have received free preventative care via Medicare that they wouldn't have received if Obamacare hadn't been passed.

And so they're going to vote for the guy who wants to repeal the law. Continued here...