When the sequester hit the federal budget seven days ago, the budget hawk on the right, Rep. Paul Ryan, started re-floating his 2012 budget plan as the solution. Opponents of the GOP budget will recall that Ryan is in favor of raising the age for Medicare eligibility and privatizing the health care program. The White [...]
August 27, 2012 By Leave a Comment
End Medicare? Hardly. The Ryan Plan Expands On a Medicare System Seniors Love.
The power struggle is on and Democrats are shouting that the GOP will end Medicare when attacking Paul Ryan’s overhaul plan. Is this really true? Let’s examine the facts. While the Democrats like to claim that the Ryan plan “ends Medicare as we know it”, in reality the proposed overhaul would turn Medicare into a [...]
May 4, 2012 By 1 Comment
Is Paul Ryan’s Medicare Reform Concept Doomed?
The Huffington Post reported yesterday that Henry Arron, co-creator of the Medicare reform concept that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) supports, no longer believes it is the best approach. “Aaron and former Urban Institute president Robert Reischauer came up with the idea of “premium support” in 1995, after the failure of then-First Lady Hillary Clinton’s bid [...]
