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Gore calls Bush plan
I too severe for seniors
By RON FOURNIER
Associated Press
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Al
Gore warned Monday that George
W. Bush’s Medicare plan would
strip senior citizens of their “sense
of dignity” by forcing many into
welfare offices for prescription drug
coverage.
“I believe seniors deserve better
than a plan that leaves out millions
of middle-class seniors, varies in
coverage from state to state and
could run seniors through welfare
offices,” the Democratic presiden
tial candidate said in this hotly con
tested state with a motherlode of
elderly voters.
The accusation drew protests
from Bush’s campaign, though GOP
ing assumptions his staff has made
about Bush’s plan, caused inde
pendent analysts to question
whether the vice president was
playing racial and class warfare pol
itics to court elderly voters, as well
as suburban whites.
“He’s trying to turn voters against
Governor Bush by scaring seniors,”
said Bush spokesman Ari Fleischer.
The hyperbole-filled exchange
opened a critical week of campaign
ing in which Gore will focus on
Medicare while Bush highlights
what he calls ‘an education reces
sion” in America. National polls
show the race is a dead heat, with
Republican intensity rising and
Bush regaining his footing.
In the all-important race for 270
electoral votes, Gore is faring well
in states that Bush had hoped to sew
up by now, including Florida. Neva
da, North Carolina, Arizona and
Colorado. Bush is still doing better
than expected in Democratic-lean
ing Oregon, Washington state and
Wisconsin.
The vice president will begin air
ing ads in Nevada on Tuesday. De
mocrats are polling in Arizona to
determine whether their nominee.
should begin competing there, ac
cording to a senior Gore adviser.
After the first heacf-to-head de
bate next week, Democrats will poll
voters in North Carolina, Georgia
and Colorado to gauge whether to
dramatically expand the vice presi
dent’s target list, the adviser said.
Bush probably can’t get 270 elec
toral votes without Florida, where
his brother Jeb is governor. Despite
spending $5 million in TV ads since
the conventions, Bush is mired in a
tie with Gore in most polls.
Appealing to voters here, Gore
called good health “a basic right”
and pledged to increase penalties
on HMOs that exclude seniors. He
said he would protect and expand
Medicare.
“I will veto the use of any money
from Medicare, for anything other
than Medicare,” said Gore, though
it could be argued that his own plan
doesn’t meet that standard.
Gore compared Bush’s idea of
Medicare reform to what he called
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not deny
that states
could re
quire sen
iors to go
to welfare
offices un
der Bush’s
plan.
Gore’s
charge,
based on
self-serv
GOP efforts in the past to “disman
tle the program.”
“He’s supported the Newt Gin
grich assault on Medicare,” Gore
said of Bush on ABC News, refer
ring to the former GOP speaker of
the House.
The Gore campaign wouldn’t
provide details backing up the
charge.
Bush spokesman Fleischer said
he didn’t know what Gore was talk
ing about. He noted the Clinton
Gore administration in 1997 signed
into law Gingrich’s proposal to cut
$225 billion from Medicare over 7
years.
Gore promises to extend
Medicare’s solvency by five years,
from 2025 to 2030, by using the an
ticipated $400 billion, 10-year
Medicare surplus to reduce the fed
eral debt. He says that would save
$75 billion in interest payments,
which would be used to shore up
Medicare.
The vice president says he would
spend $338 billion over 10 years to
add a prescription drug benefit to
Medicare. Bush’s $198 billion
Medicare plan would give states
$48.billion to provide prescription
drug coverage while he implements
a market-based approach on the na
tional level.
Gore told reporters aboard Air
Force II that 14 states already offer
prescription drug plans and four of
them — Connecticut, Delaware,
Maine and Minnesota — require
seniors to sign up for the program at
welfare offices. Bush’s plan “could
mean” the same for seniors nation
wide, he said.
His language was less absolute
than Sunday, when Gore left no
room for doubt by claiming that
Bush’s plan “would force” seniors
into welfare offices. Aides said he
stands behind Sunday’s characteri
zation.
The vice president said he wasn’t
practicing racial or class warfare. In
stead, he said that, unlike welfare,
Medicare “gives seniors a sense of
dignity in receiving benefits with
out regard to income levels or em
ployment status.”
Fleischer said Bush’s plan is
modeled after a Pennsylvania pro
gram that does not involve welfare
offices. Though t,:,»tes would not be
required to follow the Pennsylvania
example, the spokesman said,
“That doesn'! mean Bush requires
people to go to welfare offices.”
David Bositis, an expert on racial
politics with the Joint Center for Po
litical and Economic Studies in
Washington, said Gore appears to be
playing on the pride of middle-class
Americans “who would find it in
sulting to go to a welfare office.”
“You always wonder in terms of
welfare issues if there is some racial
subtext, but this message seems to
be aimed directly at seniors,” Bosi
tis said.
Michigan pollster Ed Sarpolus,
however said Gore’s message touch
es a hot button among certain sub
urban Detroit voters who equate
welfare with a whole set of racial is
sues that have divided whites and
blacks.
“In lower Macomb County it is
certainly a racial issues, but in most
places it is economic,” Sarpolus
said. “Lots of people won’t accept
welfare, even if they need and de
serve it, because of the stigma at
tached.”
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