Two Birds with One Stone

States Propose Sweeping Changes to Trim Medicaid by Billions
By ROBERT PEAR
The plans provide guidance to Congress, which endorsed a
budget blueprint that would cut projected Medicaid spending
by $10 billion over the next five years.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/national/09medicaid.html?th&emc=th

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One has to be aware these days that far too many people are dying needlessly because they cannot afford the preventive screening that catches such things as a pre cancerous polyp in the colon:

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/colonoscopy/

that can be easily removed with the same screening procedure.

Cutting back on Medicaid will presumably rid us of millions more Americans who will not live to qualify for Social Security -- as it were killing two birds with one stone -- or should I say with Bush's economic weapons of mass murder?