Urk. Politico:
DCCC will be out today with a brutal (and misleading) slogan, “VOTE REPUBLICAN – END MEDICARE”It’s not misleading! I know that serious people are supposed to be shocked, shocked at the Democrats calling the Ryan plan a plan to dismantle Medicare — but that’s just what it is. If you replace a system that actually pays seniors’ medical bills with an entirely different system, one that gives seniors vouchers that won’t be enough to buy adequate insurance, you’ve ended Medicare. Calling the new program “Medicare” doesn’t change that fact.
The CBO analysis of the Ryan Unicorn Plan backs this up. Seniors will be paying the lion's share of their health care costs under this new scheme, as much at two-thirds of Medicare costs. That seems like the end of Medicare to me. Calling the new program Super Awesome Senior Health Plan Omega Care Arts doesn't make it better either, instead of pretty much bankrupting America's elderly while we cut taxes again for the rich.
Politico's response, by the way? Nothing. Dems are so mean for pointing this out, why can't they just be bipartisan?
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