Posted on 08/14/2012 7:42:18 AM PDT by Blackyce
Guess it’s hard to take someone named after a pear seriously.
How did that work out?
Great timing!
FAIL
I love these kinds of posts! Ha! Bruce...what a douche!
Some salt to go with your foot?
The dementocrats are under the badly mistaken illusion the conservatives want to run from the Medicare issue. On the contrary... Ryan and even Romney are ready, willing and able to have that conversation anytime.
We WANT this issue in the forefront, dems. Bring your solution up against ours.
I expected attacks, but they obviously stayed up all night drinking and daring each other to come up with the vilest statements and then published them.
“I think he is happy being chairman of the House Budget Committee and knows that he is young enough—he’s only 42—that 2012 is unlikely to be his last chance to move up from the House of Representatives.”
Bartlett: Hey, Ryan ... get in line ... it’s not your turn!
Maybe Bruce just got hired to ghostwrite this for Dick Morris.
It’s okay Bruce, a lot can happen in 24 hours.
Under the Ryan plan, anyone over 55 years of age today would have the OPTION of accepting the voucher or remaining on the current Medicare system. I believe I'm correct in saying that the reason the voucher amount is somewhat less than the computed per-capita cost is that insureds would make their choice at retirement age (65,66,67) and the per capita cost includes those still insured on Medicare that are now in their 80's and 90's, whose care is more expensive. So yes, the voucher is less than the average cost to provide care for the entire age spectrum of those on Medicare.
We are already winning this debate at the water cooler at work. When we make skeptics aware that no one over 55 is required to change anything, it is the first time they have heard this. They don't believe us, then they find out we are right, then they shut up. No more to say.
We tell them, "the only thing that will surely end Medicare as we know it is Medicare as we know it".
“the right-wing Weekly Standard”...lol...need we say more of the Neoconservative rag
right wing?
yeah like National Review is now right wing
Peace in our time.
“Ryan requires (or at least required at one time) his staffers to read Rand’s most famous novel, Atlas Shrugged.”
The “Randian” boogeyman cometh, or is he just, “...a true policy wonk who would rather talk about economics, the budget, tax policy, monetary policy and financial markets than just about anything.”
It is so nice to hear someone talking besides Obama. Especially someone who can do something, with say Medicare, besides robbing it of $760 billion dollars.
Like diversity, social justice and the redistribution of wealth.
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LOL! These liberal lapdogs are truly clueless!
I know it's petty but I just love when they're proved wrong.
Ryan just assumes that private health insurers would create policies that would provide equal benefits to what Medicare now provides, and does nothing whatsoever to ensure that such an option will exist when the existing Medicare program ceases to exist. Ironically, Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which Ryan wants to repeal, actually creates a mechanism that would facilitate Ryan’s Medicare proposal.
I'd like to point out two things here: 1) see bold section - I high-lited it because right there is one of the reasons there is no "affordable" healthcare...Insurance providers. If the govt wants to fix the problem they need to work on insurance providers OR better yet allow our "pivately-held" (by us) medical savings be tax free and never expire. AND get the medical profession to give us the same discounts they give the insurance companies.
2) when he says "actually creates a mechanism that would facilitate Ryan’s Medicare proposal" he forgets to mention how much it'll cost us.
The truth, which I've known for some time, is that the Repubs and/or Ryan do not plan to turn off Medicare immediately. It will be fazed out. I had to have this discussion with my mother because AARP had her scared witless. I will still be eligible for Medicare (don't plan on counting on it solely) but my sister two years younger will not.
And finally, the Obama-Pelosicare is only designed to cover the poor and illegals (IMO of course).
No thanks government, I can take care of myself better than you can.
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