{"id":24775,"date":"2016-11-16T14:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24775"},"modified":"2016-11-16T14:00:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T22:00:05","slug":"republicare-for-seniors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/11\/16\/republicare-for-seniors\/","title":{"rendered":"RepubliCare for Seniors"},"content":{"rendered":"

While Democrats are trying to move toward single payer health care (not quickly enough), and planned to allow people to join Medicare at 55 and add a public option to Obamacare, Republicans have their own series of health plans, known as RepubliCare.  The primary feature of RepubliCare is the RepubliCare Death Benefit.  If you can’t pay for health care, you get to die, at no additional charge.  Lyin’ Ryan (R-WI) plans to implement RepubliCare for seniors.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"RepubliCare\"There\u2019s a lot that you should know about the Republican Medicare plan, a plan that Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) hopes to enact shortly after<\/a> President-elect Donald Trump takes office, but the entirety of it can be summarized in just one sentence.<\/p>\n

Republicans want to charge seniors a lot more for inferior health coverage.<\/p>\n

Over the last half-decade, Ryan has proposed several different versions of the Republican plan to charge seniors a lot more for inferior health care. There are important differences among these versions. Some would phase out Medicare entirely<\/a> over the course of many years, while others would merely make the system more inefficient and drive out-of-pocket costs for seniors much higher. The most recent version is impossible to fully evaluate because it lacks important details \u2014 like numbers.<\/p>\n

As Jonathan Cohn and Jeffrey Young quipped about the GOP\u2019s overall health care package, \u201cSpeaker Paul Ryan wants to replace 20 million people\u2019s health insurance with 37 pages of talking points<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Republicans want to charge seniors a lot more for inferior health coverage.<\/p>\n

Despite the differences, however, all of Ryan\u2019s proposals would impose basically the same structure. Republicans hope to repeal Medicare \u2014 the single-payer system that most seniors rely on to cover their health costs \u2014 and replace it with a voucher. This voucher will cover some of the cost of inferior coverage that will leave seniors with higher out-of-pocket costs than they would have paid under traditional Medicare. As a bonus, the total cost of paying for an individual senior\u2019s care \u2014 that is, the government\u2019s share of the costs plus the individual\u2019s share \u2014 could rise as much as 40 percent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Inferior coverage at a higher price \u2014 that\u2019s the Republican health plan. And it will become law unless three of the 52 Republican senators who will come to Washington in January decide to stop it…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Think Progress<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Please click through for the rest of the article.  Frankly, if he gets his way, there is a strong possibility that it will kill me, so I have a special reason to want it stopped.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While Democrats are trying to move toward single payer health care (not quickly enough), and planned to allow people to join Medicare at 55 and add a public option to Obamacare, Republicans have their own series of health plans, known as RepubliCare.  The primary feature of RepubliCare is the RepubliCare Death Benefit.  If you can’t […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}