July 8, 2008 (LPAC)--The ongoing cutbacks in health care on the state level, and, most importantly, in the crucial Federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, are tantamount to genocide, declared Lyndon LaRouche today. The responsibility for this crisis has to be laid directly at the feet of the Bush-Cheney administration, as well as those leading Democrats who have done little to reverse it.

There must be immediate action, LaRouche said, to prevent this dangerous, national crisis from escalating. Medicare and Medicaid are an essential part of our health care system, and it is an act of genocide to let them go. As these programs are allowed to deteriorate--for example, by cutting back payments to providers way below cost--people are left to die.

LaRouche added: "The health care policies of the Bush Administration have killed more people than the war in Southwest Asia."

These policies must be reversed, at once, LaRouche concluded. LaRouchePAC has outlined the necessary approach to federal, state, and local health care policy repeatedly, which can reverse this crisis. There is no excuse for what amounts to genocide, in the name of "fiscal responsibility." Failure to act amounts to condoning a policy of genocide.