{"id":6884,"date":"2012-01-24T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=6884"},"modified":"2012-01-24T00:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T08:04:00","slug":"ryan-is-still-targeting-medicare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/24\/ryan-is-still-targeting-medicare\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Is Still Targeting Medicare"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are on Medicare, about to go onto Medicare, or intending to go onto Medicare, even if you just got your very first after school job, it it critical that you understand that Democrats are fighting to preserve Medicare, while Republicans are fighting to destroy it.  Paul Ryan (R-Fitzwalkerstan) is back, and he is leading the charge to steal your benefits.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"24RyanPath\"Republicans in the House of Representatives will put forward a budget plan this year that will seek substantial reforms to health benefits for the elderly<\/strong> and make aggressive strides toward reducing deficits, a senior lawmaker said on Friday.<\/p>\n

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan said he wanted his budget plan to offer voters an alternative vision to the \u201ccradle-to-grave welfare state\u201d that he says Democratic President Barack Obama is promoting.<\/p>\n

The House Republican budget resolution will contain reforms to Medicare, the healthcare program for Americans 62 and over, such as providing subsidies to help recipients pay for private insurance<\/strong>, based on their wealth and medical needs.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t written it yet, but we\u2019re not backing off on the kinds of reforms we\u2019ve advocated<\/font><\/strong>,\u201d Ryan told reporters at a retreat for House Republicans in Baltimore…<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Republicans intend to replace your Medicare, for which you have paid through deductions from your pay, that guarantees care, with a coupon that does NOT guarantee care.  Because the face value of the coupon increases at a far slower rate then the increase in health care costs, the coupon will cover less and less every year.  This clearly demonstrates that people, who say that there is no difference between the parties, are wrong.  It is imperative that we put Democrats in the House, the Senate and the White House to protect our retirement years.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you are on Medicare, about to go onto Medicare, or intending to go onto Medicare, even if you just got your very first after school job, it it critical that you understand that Democrats are fighting to preserve Medicare, while Republicans are fighting to destroy it.  Paul Ryan (R-Fitzwalkerstan) is back, and he is […]<\/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-6884","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\/6884","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=6884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}