Darn that big government? What are they thinking, getting help to seniors.. and before they even have to? Why, the next thing you know, Obamastan will take over the whole wide world!

Government checks to seniors with high prescription drug bills are going out early, Obama administration officials said Thursday, plugging the advantages of the new health care overhaul law.

The $250 checks for Medicare recipients who fall into the prescription drug coverage gap are a new benefit this year, a modest down payment on gradually closing the “doughnut hole” over the next decade.

Who’s getting all that money? Four million seniors and disabled people, and that’s just this year. Damn those commie Marxists! I shake my fist at you! Spreading the wealth to people who need it? That’s treasonous!

Next year, the law provides a 50 percent discount on brand name drugs for seniors in the gap, and a smaller discount on generics.

But… but… those are benefits of– dun dun dun-n-n–  health care reform. How could that possibly be a good thing? See, everyone knows Republicans know best. They were dead set against “Obamacare”.  They want to repeal the law, eliminating all those nasty perks. They must want to do that very badly, because they’ve tantrumed and yelled “Hell no!” an awful lot.

Instead, the GOP wants to go back to the good old days of BushCoCare. What a swell idea!

The coverage gap originally came about because of funding constraints when a Republican-led Congress created the benefit in 2003 during President George W. Bush’s administration.