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In Florida, Obama casts Romney as bad choice for seniors

President Obama opened a two-day campaign swing through Florida on Thursday as he tried to build support in the deadlocked battleground state by presenting his opponent, Mitt Romney, as a bad choice for seniors.

After weeks of focusing on Romney’s private-sector business deals, Obama turned to another front by assailing Republican plans to repeal his health care law and transform Medicare into a voucher program. Democrats have long used Medicare as a wedge issue to galvanize older voters in Florida against Republicans.

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Censure the harpy.

Barry the O's campaign fails in a major way - to answer accusations floating around the internet that the Obamacare law contains provisions for doctors to ration medical care for persons, based on age, illness, and cost. This element of the on-going institution of this humungously incomprehensible bureaucratic rein on the lives of persons in the U.S. has been, in the recent past, been known as the use of death panels. Obama also cares that the Republican campaign of Mitt Romney backs a Medicae plot advanced by a Republican congressman from Wisconsin- using vouchers to pay for health insurance instead of using Medicare. The weakness in the Obama mob spin on this element is that Medicare under Obama does not cover full costs for most medical procedures - there is a decided necessity for persons who can afford it to buy supplementary insurance coverage. The Obama mob doesn't bother to explain how the current Medicare procedure differs from the Republican plan.

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