A Truly Sick Part Of Ryan's Kill Medicare Plan That You May Not Have Heard About

kpete

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:19 AM
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A Truly Sick Part Of Ryan's Kill Medicare Plan That You May Not Have Heard About

FRI APR 15, 2011 AT 06:12 AM PDT
A Truly Sick Part Of Ryan's Kill Medicare Plan That You May Not Have Heard About
byGary Norton

The CBO Analysis of the Ryan, soon to be Republican, plan to end Medicare reveals something that's largely flying under the radar. Seniors won't be able to get his crummy vouchers when they are sixty-five they have to wait two more years, until they are sixty-seven. No Medicare, no voucher, no nothing until you are sixty-seven.

Ryan doesn't talk about it and it doesn't appear in the plan published on the Vouchercare website. One has to go to the Congressional Budget Office report to find it. And there you discover that under the Ryan/Republican plan

Starting in 2022, the age of eligibility for Medicare would increase by two months per year until it reached 67 in 2033.

That means that if you were born in 1966 or later you won't be eligible for diddlysquat until you are sixty-seven. No Medicare, no voucher, no nothing.

more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/15/964975/-A-Truly-Sick-Part-Of-Ryans-Kill-Medicare-Plan-That-You-May-Not-Have-Heard-About

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dkf

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:25 AM
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1. I don't see how our healthcare system survives.

I figure we will get to single payer someday because no one can afford it.

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Wounded Bear

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:33 AM
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4. We don't have a health care "system"....

That would imply some rationality and central controls.

We have a health care "industry," which means profits.

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dkf

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:47 AM
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5. You are so right.

It's ridiculous.

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reformist2

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:31 AM
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2. Negotiated pricing is the only thing that makes sense - medicine was never meant to be a business.

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dkf

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:48 AM
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6. It could have been a business if they figured out how to keep things reasonable.

But they have demonstrated they can't so it's got to be fixed.

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indepat

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:32 AM
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3. Obscene depravity: if Ryan gets re-elected, hopefully all his supporters will voluntarily

accept Ryan's plan for themselves, even if none of his plan becomes law. :patriot:

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bullwinkle428

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Fri Apr-15-11 09:49 AM
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7. The Gang of Six was hoping to slide this under the radar.

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democracy1st

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Fri Apr-15-11 10:07 AM
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8. K & R

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Historic NY

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Fri Apr-15-11 11:04 AM
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9. Under Ryan's plan 67, may send you to heaven.

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Fri Apr-15-11 02:19 PM
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10. K&R for truth. n/t

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