Here's an opinion piece from earlier this year that will bring those of you who weren't aware of Rep Paul Ryan's (current House Budget Committee Chairman) "plan."
Paul Ryan's budget blueprint: Pushing the aged into poverty - Los Angeles Times
The hall of mirrors in which our bitterly partisan politics now play themselves out is a curious place. But even by its distorted standards, the reaction to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan's budget blueprint has been odd, particularly the general reluctance to call it what it plainly is: an attempt to abolish Medicare and gut Medicaid, while further lowering the taxes paid by corporations and wealthy individuals.
Economists already are picking over the plan's dubious statistics, but as The Times reported Friday the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has outlined what adoption of this proposal to supplant Medicare with vouchers and private insurance exchanges would mean. The overall cost of healthcare would go up, and retirees' out-of-pocket medical expenses would double an increase that would push tens of millions of people living on fixed incomes over the financial brink.
Privatizing Medicare is only the beginning. I am sure that privatizing Social Security will be revisited. I am sure we have the brothers Koch and other wealthy conservative campaign contributors to thank for the continued push to privatize.
Paul Ryan's budget blueprint: Pushing the aged into poverty - Los Angeles Times
The hall of mirrors in which our bitterly partisan politics now play themselves out is a curious place. But even by its distorted standards, the reaction to House Budget Committee Chairman Paul D. Ryan's budget blueprint has been odd, particularly the general reluctance to call it what it plainly is: an attempt to abolish Medicare and gut Medicaid, while further lowering the taxes paid by corporations and wealthy individuals.
Economists already are picking over the plan's dubious statistics, but as The Times reported Friday the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has outlined what adoption of this proposal to supplant Medicare with vouchers and private insurance exchanges would mean. The overall cost of healthcare would go up, and retirees' out-of-pocket medical expenses would double an increase that would push tens of millions of people living on fixed incomes over the financial brink.
Privatizing Medicare is only the beginning. I am sure that privatizing Social Security will be revisited. I am sure we have the brothers Koch and other wealthy conservative campaign contributors to thank for the continued push to privatize.
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