WASHINGTON- a democratic victory in a reliable Republican district House of representatives this week has legislators cops to reform Medicare, greatly reducing the chances of a global agreement to reduce the deficit in the long term.
Rarely in recent years was a special election unique, off the coast of the year - such as in a district of the House Tuesday in the State of New York - raised these earthquakes of policies at the national level or have had these efforts to bring us federal debt under the control of the negative impact.
Democrat Kathy Hochul won a solidly Republican district after hammering his opponent to save a Republican plan in the House, to scale back Medicare costs. Medicare is a federal program which is the biggest single driver of deficit, but most voters want left intact.
Without a sincere effort to curb the growth of Medicare, which provides health insurance, to elderly and disabled US $ 47 million it will run short of money in 13 years.
Remained unchanged, Medicare, social security retirement program and the program of insurance of federal State of Medicaid for the poor would consume 100 percent of all tax revenues by 2047, according to the non-partisan Government Accountability Office.
Republicans recaptured control of the House in 2010 in part by Democrats accusing bar to slash Medicare and interfere with the doctor-patient relationship under health reform law signed year last by President Barack Obama. The Act is often derided by opponents as "obamacare."
Democrats believe that the political situation has been changed.
At issue is a Republican proposal put forward in April by House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan would fundamentally reshape Medicare into an agreement in which seniors receive government benefits to help pay for private health insurance.
The impartiality that Congressional Budget Office estimated that the Ryan budget would eventually double Medicare small expenditure for the elderly.
Polls show that while voters want action to bring down the deficit - defined for $ 1.4 billion this year, overwhelmingly that they oppose any changes to Medicare.
Tim Pawlenty and Mitt Romney, regarded as the major candidates for the Republican presidential nomination in 2012, have backed away from Ryan plan.
Although the Senate Republicans appear to be maintained by Ryan plan in a vote Wednesday, some have conceded that their vote was the unity of the party more than real support to overhaul Medicare. The Senate under democratic control defeated the proposal by Ryan passed to the House by a vote of 57 to 40, with five Republican senators voting against it.
"ARTICLE OF FAITH".
Republican Senator Bob Corker said there was no Republicans of the Senate who considers an "article of faith".
A Republican strategist, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Republicans would rather campaign the year next to the high unemployment rate that "tell voters why they want to dismantle Medicare.".
"The Republican budget is a political responsibility and toxic for the GOP," Democratic Senator Patty Murray said, referring to the nickname of Grand Old Party of Republicans. Competition of the House on Tuesday "remembered as a turning point in the next election."
With the Democrats having now every policy encourages not to address the costs of Medicare and wishing to avoid the problem of many Republicans, said analysts election on Tuesday was also a decisive moment - and non-positive - for the long-term deficit.
"It is amazing what can have a ripple effect, a special election", David Gergen, a political analyst and Adviser to four Presidents of the United States, told Reuters.
"The election of New York the makes more difficult to reach a global agreement on the reduction of the deficit - before the elections in 2012 and what happens after 2012 is therefore uncertain." This makes it more likely that they could kick the can on the road, in 2013 or 2014. ?
With the largest insurance and one of the fastest growing budget components, the important deficit reduction simply cannot be achieved without some savings in the programme.
Recent elections have shown what a politically explosive issue Medicare is - and the part that attempts to change the fact at his peril.
In 2010, Democrats accused Republicans of wanting to "death panels" for the elderly in their health care proposals. The benefits of the bitter struggle on the right lead healthcare helped helped new big Republican wins the legislative elections last November.
This week, a non-profit group Liberal, in an attack on the Ryan plan, has published an advertisement showing an old woman thrown a cliff of her wheelchair - an image that could be taken up by the Democrats, as the 2012 elections draw approach.
Republicans are the image of these efforts are "mediscare" tactical.
Ryan, speaking at a financial Summit in Washington said Obama and Democrats had decided of "shamelessly distort and demagogue Medicare,"and warned that without reform,"it went bankrupt and we will go in a debt crisis."
Former President Bill Clinton, who waited to be re-elected for a second term to address the reform social, warning the Democrats against the use of insurance for "political gains in the short term."
Now, freed from the political constraints of Office, Clinton flatly said fellow Democrats: "we have to deal with these things." You can't have healthcare devour the economy. ?
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