Senate Passes Amendment Protecting Medicare Benefits; Old People Get To Live!

It looks like, unlike what Rush Limbaugh is fear-mongering, older Americans may get to live after all.

A Democratic amendment to the Senate health-care bill that seeks to protect Medicare benefits passed on a unanimous vote on Thursday. The amendment by Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., states that the overhaul bill before the Senate won’t reduce guaranteed Medicare benefits. Republicans have decried the bill’s $400 billion in cuts to the huge Medicare program but Democrats insist basic benefits will remain intact.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.