What is worse? 20% across the board income tax cut or cutting medicare by 716 billion?

[NinjaguyDan]

Kasz216 said:

NinjaguyDan said:

http://swampland.time.com/2012/08/16/fact-check-obamacares-medicare-cuts/

"As for the cuts, they come from eliminating a massive subsidy to private insurers and gradually reducing the rate of growth in payments to some providers. These changes, while not catastrophic for Medicare, are important. Under the ACA, the federal government will substantially reduce the amount it spends funding Medicare Advantage, which is privately administered insurance offered to Medicare beneficiaries."

 

Ignore the spin, those cuts are beneficial. The only people who are losing out are the assholescumbag insurance company executives who want to skim +30% off the top to fund their lavish lifestyles. Fuck them!

http://money.usnews.com/money/blogs/flowchart/2009/08/25/why-health-insurers-make-lousy-villains

"Profit margins basically reflect the percentage of revenue left over after paying salaries, expenses, taxes and lots of other things. So it's possible for firms to pay their executives a lot and still have a low profit margin. That's why Merrill Lynch, as an example, was able to pay huge bonuses to some employees while the company itself lost epic amounts of money."

 

But we should ignore that and let them plead poverty with some seriously strained math.