{"id":8604,"date":"2012-08-14T09:14:47","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8604"},"modified":"2012-08-14T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T16:14:47","slug":"republicare-less-care-for-more-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/08\/14\/republicare-less-care-for-more-money\/","title":{"rendered":"RepubliCare: Less Care for More Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan and Romney are making it a point to claim that they would save Medicare.  You can use that whopper to fertilize your veggies.  The truth is simple.  Replacing Medicare\u2019s guaranteed care with a coupon worth less every year to buy private insurance with no guaranteed care will save nothing.  Americans know it.  However, if Congressional Republicans know it, as they certainly should, they just don\u2019t care.  They keep voting for it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Even as Mitt Romney was introducing Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate, his campaign was preparing a defense<\/a> of the House Budget Chairman’s draconian Medicare proposals. With good reason. After all, in April 2011 the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office<\/a> forecast that Ryan’s scheme to convert today’s guaranteed Medicare insurance program into an underfunded voucher system would dramatically shift the health care costs onto America’s seniors<\/strong>. And in February 2010, Ryan acknowledged his privatization plan for millions of future elderly constituted rationing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just Team Romney that should be concerned about being caught red-handed with the proverbial gun pointed at the wildly popular program<\/a>. Last year, 235 House Republicans<\/a> and 40 GOP Senators<\/a>—98 percent of all Republicans in Congress<\/strong>—voted for Paul Ryan’s budget and its blueprint to rationing Medicare<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

To be sure, the Ryan budget blessed by Republicans on Capitol Hill means de facto rationing for the system that today serves 46 million American seniors. As the CBO documented last year<\/a>, Ryan’s plan to replace public insurance provided by the government with vouchers for the elderly to buy their own coverage in the private market means getting less care for more money<\/strong>… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The Romney\/Ryan budget actually codifies the death panels that Republicans falsely attributed to Obamacare.  That is the RepubliCare death benefit.<\/font><\/p>\n

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        To save Grandmama<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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            Vote for Obama!<\/font><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n

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Ryan and Romney are making it a point to claim that they would save Medicare.  You can use that whopper to fertilize your veggies.  The truth is simple.  Replacing Medicare\u2019s guaranteed care with a coupon worth less every year to buy private insurance with no guaranteed care will save nothing.  Americans know it.  However, if […]<\/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-8604","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\/8604","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=8604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}