These cuts are the worst kind, the self-defeating kind. Sick people people who use home health care save taxpayers money by staying home, getting professional visits, and not requiring 24-hour nursing home care. Cut off from home care, their next option is the nursing home. Medicaid picks up the tab after they've spent themselves into poverty. While politicians were talking about cutting taxes, they were covering their eyes, pinning the tail on the Medicare donkey with arbitrary caps and then moving out on the campaign trail with bogus surpluses to sell.
Veterans organizations wonder about that.
They are seeking legislation that would give military retirees the same kind of health benefits that civilian federal employees and members of Congress get. We can't afford it. We don't have the money. Recently when air travel got snarled across the country, the nation's air-traffic controllers pointed out that the air travel system has been falling behind in many ways. Polls consistently find big tax cuts a cold attraction, except among taxpayers in that upper 20 percent bracket.