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Subscribe to RSSMONTANA: The Billings Gazette writes up last night’s Tester-vs.-Rehberg debate. “U.S. Rep. Denny Rehberg stuck with his central campaign theme at a Sunday debate, mentioning President Barack Obama early and often as he laid blame on U.S. Sen. Jon Tester for unpopular administration policies. Tester scoffed at Rehberg's attack that the Democrat votes with the president 95 percent of the time as ‘crazy.’ Tester joked that he doesn't even agree with his wife 95 percent of the time.”
More: “Tester's primary attack of the evening was to slam Rehberg for seeking to end funding for women's health care clinics. Rehberg said the move came as part of an effort to end duplicative services, and said he believes low-income women can receive family planning services under Medicare. Tester also blamed Rehberg, who has been in Congress since 2000, for inflating debt with tax cuts, two wars and new prescription drug help for seniors. Rehberg countered that the debt has really ballooned under the current administration.”
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This is the second reference made by a Republican candidate that indicates that they really have no clue as to how Medicare works:
Ryan has made comments relative to his grandmother who lived at home and received care for her Alzheimer's Disease through Medicare. Really? How does that happen?
Now we have Rehberg making a claim that medical issues related to family planning can be delivered to the poor through Medicare. Really? Hard to imagine a woman needing family planning assistance when she is over 65. And while it is true that some may be recipients of Medicare due to a disability, I doubt if Rehberg had that in mind.
Not everyone is an expert in Medicare and knows the conditions under which services are covered through Medicare and for how long. But if one is going to propose drastic changes to improve Medicare they ought to at the least have some idea of how it works in the first place.