FDR on Republican Promises - Some Things Never Change

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Il 17 - Bobby Schilling a disappointment – time for a change

Note: This letter appears in the Muscatine Journal and appears here with the permission of the author.

If there is one word that describes Bobby Schilling it would be “disappointment”. He was supposed to go to Washington and stop wasteful spending. Instead of cutting spending he helped scuttle the $4 trillion deficit reduction deal worked out by Speaker Boehner – making him part of the deficit problem, not the solution. He also brags about his support for forcing the government to pay full list price for prescription drugs in Medicare Part D, a rule that wastes $60 billion dollars according to the Congressional Budget Office. Oddly enough, his free spending habits put him to the left of his Democratic challenger. He talks a lot about jobs but has failed to deliver when he has had the chance. The Thompson prison sits empty, and 1,100 badly needed jobs go unfilled,(Update - Thompson prison has been sold to the feds - no thanks to Schilling) because its sale to the Federal Bureau of Prisons has been stopped by House Republicans. Schilling was “against it before he was for it” of course. Why should his colleagues care about jobs for Illinois when the local congressman wasn’t that interested - until his reelection campaign. And don’t get me started on his vote to cut VA healthcare benefits for our veterans.

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Guest column in Rock River Times: Schilling’s program would harm Social Security and Medicare

This is a great piece by Caryn Unsicker in the Rock River Times that lays out the gyrations that Bobby Schilling is going through as he trys to avoid coming clean on his vote to gut Medicare. Read the whole comlumn here.

I have another post with information on the true cost of Schilling's budget on Medicare users.

I also have another post on the Schilling/Ryan budget in general and what it does and does not do.

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True Cost to Consumers of the Schilling-Ryan Medicare Plan

There is a lot smoke being blown at the moment about how the Schilling-Ryan Medicare plan would not hurt current seniors and how it would actually "strengthen" Medicare for the future. The reality, on the other hand, is a bit different. Where people are going to come up with this kind of money I don't know - but take a look at this graphic that lays out the average added cost that Bobby Schilling is working so hard to lay on you - all for a program you have spent your working life paying for. You thought you had "earned" it - Bobby Schilling thinks otherwise.

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The Ryan Budget and Medicare Part D (Prescription Drug Coverage)

As we all know, the Affordable Care Act, (ACA or “Obama Care”) closes the Medicare “doughnut hole” where Medicare recipients have to pay all of their drug costs after they pass a specific point, $2,840 in 2011, until they hit their max out of pocket of $4,550. The Paul Ryan / Bobby Schilling budget, on the other hand, would open the doughnut hole back up, making seniors responsible for 100% of their drug costs after the trigger. While Ryan argues that forcing seniors to pay more for their drugs will help bring drug costs down (the logic beats me), the Congressional Budget Office disagrees. Interestingly enough where drugs are concerned, Congressman Schilling is proud of his stand forcing the government (taxpayers) to buy drugs at list price (this is his “Standing up for Seniors” award from an Astroturf group set up by the drug industry to funnel tax dollars to themselves). As has been mentioned before, the Ryan budget also turns Medicare into a voucher program where seniors would have to buy their own coverage on the private insurance market – and I’m sure that private insurance companies would be happy to sell health insurance to a 70 year old with a heart condition – righttttttt. But that’s Congressman Schilling for you. More info on the Ryan budget can be found at Factcheck.org

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