Rmoney/Ryan say they will put back the $716 billion into Medicare if they get elected

[sad sally]

while their voucher/"free choice" system for those under 55 wouldn't to into effect unti 2023.

Reinstating the savings would end up ensuring the system would be bankrupt by 2024. Then what? Why isn't anybody asking them to explain their "wonky" math?

[rocktivity]

1. There isn't $716 million missing -- or about to be.

That's the money Obama says is going to be saved. And while the "choice" of the voucher system may be free, the premiums sure won't be.


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[2on2u]

2. Have a link for this? I am in a duel with someone over this very thing and I don't want to

argue without knowing the facts.

[rocktivity]

3. Here's where you can start

http://www.democraticunderground.com/101749269


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[2on2u]

9. Thanks for that, downloaded and ready to share.... nt

[KurtNYC]

4. They aren't getting away with it

they ARE being asked to 'splain (but they can't).

[GoCubsGo]

5. So, they want us to start overpaying the corporate health care system again?

Why am I not surprised by that?

[Ilsa]

6. They want to give the money to

the corporations that own the hospitals and other health care providers, as well as the insurance companies. Anything to enrich the CEOs and stockholders.

[Initech]

7. Where are they going to get that $700 billion from? Cut defense spending?

Or as they said in the movie Super Troopers: "I'll believe that when me shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbert."

[sad sally]

8. More "wonky math"

In the older sense of the word, wonky means to be unbalanced or unstable, especially when applied to one's mental or emotional state. It could also apply to a physical instability, such as a loose wheel on an old cart or a precariously balanced load. One might say a mentally unstable relative has become a little wonky in recent years, or the steering wheel of a car has become wonkier since an accident. "Wonky" can often be used interchangeably with "wobbly" when describing a physical instability, or along with "crazy," "daft," or "batty" when describing a person's altered mental state.