Building off the House vote Thursday to eliminate President Obama’s 15-member panel charged with cutting Medicare payments, the GOP today launched an internet campaign mimicking DirecTV’s funny ads to suggest that the panel will anger the elderly.
“When Democrats empower 15 unelected bureaucrats to cut Medicare, grandma is denied care. And when grandma is denied care, she takes it out on grandpa,” says the ad.
And just like it he DirecTV ads that usually end in disaster for those who don’t have the service, the National Republican Congressional Committee’s ad tells us that when grandma is mad, grandpa flees the house and when he flees the house in a fast car he gets busted by the cops. “Don’t let grandpa go to the big house. Get rid of Obamacare and you’ll get rid of the 15 unelected bureaucrats empowered to cut grandma’s Medicare,” says the ad.
“Obamacare’s board of unelected bureaucrats may not land grandpa in the big house, but it is one of the egregious examples of government overreach,” says NRCC spokesman Paul Lindsay.
On Thursday, the House voted 223-181, with seven Democrats joining most Republicans, to abolish the Independent Payment Advisory Board. The board is to suggest cost-savings to Medicare if spending grows above the national income growth rate. The vote, however, won’t impact the president’s health care program because the Senate is expected to ignore the House vote and the president certainly wouldn’t sign it.
