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Just talk to seniors and you get an earful of the pit falls.

The middle report from Heritage is the best I’ve found. Also the WSJ piece, which states quite clearly there is not a wit’s difference in the 2 plans with the cut & gut for the first 10 years.

We know 0’care has NO reforms in it. Don’t want to T off your donors. Ditto for the GOP.

Those warning bells was Ryan getting into your wallet for subsidies. NO FIXES of the 40+ years of PALM GREASING. Which both parties are guilty of putting into Medicare.

I know Ryan’s plan supposedly does not affect those already on Medicare. BUT if all you do is gut Medicare, there will be NO health care for seniors.

I’m not a bleeding heart, but I know you can’t yank the rug out from under frail old people, many whose total monthly income is about $900-1100 per month from SS after their Medicare premium is paid.

That qualifies them for a few cans of fruit and veggies from the commodities program, maybe $10-30 in food stamps, depending on what their SS income is. Illegals get much more than this pittance.

Younger generations seem to forget many of these widows and widowers worked jobs that had no benefits like today’s jobs do. Nor were they high paying jobs for the time period.

Most widows draw off their husband’s SS as they either didn’t work, or worked very low wage jobs. They grew up in another world than the one we live in today. Moms stayed home with their kids.. In other words Ozzie and Harriet’s world.