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For one thing you cant protect all those over 55 with everyone else footing the bill later getting thrown of the ship. How is a future 67 year old going to get private insurance when those a few years older are part of a massive medicare pool to demand low prices? It's like those under 55 are thrown off the cruise ship into the ocean(after they retire) told to swim on their own, to protect important voters OVER 55 on the cruise ship.

EXACTLY! I have been saying this since this stupidity came out. Say you are 54...can you change your investment strategy to come up with another $2000/month when you retire??? That is what it will take, on TOP of the pittance that they are talking about giving people. Oh, and the pittance is on a "sliding scale"...so once again the useless are rewarded while the responsible pay the price.

And let's talk about the timing, shall we? Great time to trot that out...after you have been perceived as bailing out billionaires around the globe, huge banks, Wall Street, and various assorted deadbeats.

Meanwhile, the people footing the bill visit emergency rooms only to wait 6 hours behind a bunch of obviously "non-paying" consumers...while watching their premiums increase 10-20 percent per year.

We send foreign aid to despots; are paying obnoxious retirements to Government employees; are supporting a failing education system; are supporting a bunch of lowlifes who are allowing their children to roam the streets like feral packs of animals.

We have rapidly rising food & fuel prices, a complete lack of jobs, NO plan to bring capital and jobs back to the U.S., while we are in FACT subsidizing trading partners who are tacitly (and sometimes openly) hostile.

And, they decide to lead with cutting Medicare? Just terrific strategic marketing.

RE :”And, they decide to lead with cutting Medicare? Just terrific strategic marketing. “

I think all your points are exactly the same ones many voters voted Republican in November are thinking now.

Republicans pretty much hid the Ryan plan from voters last year and instead ran on protecting Medicare benefits(a big mistake I warned at the time) and instead cutting Obama-care and all the new spending since Pelosi took over the House in 2007, or at least 2009. It is not like they won a mandate to do this.See Republicans mixed messages at #109

House Republicans knew this proposal would be toxic when they pushed for a vote:see #65. There is some reason they still pushed this, maybe they thought it would blow over by election day. Ryan probably wants to be like John Kasich was in 2003 and 2004, a hero to the Republican base. But I am beyond symbolic gestures, I am going to judge on results and getting Democrats elected (if that continues) without getting anything into law will be a failure as far as I am concerned.