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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: This Republican Plan To Reduce Spending On Medicare Is Cruel and Heartless, Unlike Our Own Reduction of Medicare By $500 Billion
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There's a key difference here, too: That $500 billion came out of seniors' hides in order to fund a completely different group. That is, no benefit at all to seniors. Except to the extent they can feel good about paying for some stranger's health care.
The program became more unsustainable -- that's what happens when you already have a dramatically-underfunded program and take away $500 billion.
The Ryan plan, while it does include the element of those 55 or younger now having to pay for more of their care when they retire in 10-65 years, also does something for that group: It actually makes it sustainable. That is, it won't suddenly go bankrupt and leave people with no health care.
So the Ryan Plan takes a bit from those 55 or younger (and not current seniors, nor near-retirement folks) but gives them something in return: a system that will actually be in place and functioning as promised when they need it. Plus -- a government that won't collapse, generally. Which is nice.
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Good write up about this. Wish I could post it all. One of the BS Talking Points of the left over this is of course... seniors. Well, why dont they explain what ObamaCare is going to do for seniors. Why dont they fess up and tell the seniors whom they claim to care so much for, that they took billions from them to give to young/poor.
And we are all aware of the "death" panels and how people in Obama's circle are proud to believe that a seniors life is worse less than others. But let's not let all their own words and beliefs get in the way of liberal bs .....
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