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5/29/11: New DNC chair Wasserman Schultz calls RyanCare 'unfair to youths'
From the May 29, 2011 Face the Nation: Harry Smith spoke with Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fl.) on the plan to restructure Medicare and the issues that will affect the 2012 GOP presidential nominees. (Transcript, summary) From the summary article:
In an appearance on CBS' "Face the Nation," Wasserman-Schultz said that the GOP plan, outlined in Wis. Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed 2012 budget, would unfairly target young Americans.
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Republicans) would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them, 'You know what? You're on your own. Go and find private health insurance in the health care insurance market. We're going to throw you to the wolves, and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions,' " Wasserman-Schultz told CBS' Harry Smith. " 'We're going to give you X amount of dollars and you figure it out.'
"These are people who have paid for their whole life into the system," she added.
Referencing Democrat Kathy Hochul's victory last week in a special election in House district NY-26, a district previously considered a GOP stronghold, the DNC leader said voters were clearly rejecting the Ryan Medicare plan.
"Americans sent a very strong message - not just in New York this week, but in Jacksonville, Fla., last week, when they elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 20 years; in a state House race in New Hampshire - same issue," Wasserman-Schultz said. "Americans support Medicare and the structure that we have for Medicare.
"
Republicans) would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them, 'You know what? You're on your own. Go and find private health insurance in the health care insurance market. We're going to throw you to the wolves, and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions,' " Wasserman-Schultz told CBS' Harry Smith. " 'We're going to give you X amount of dollars and you figure it out.'
"These are people who have paid for their whole life into the system," she added.
Referencing Democrat Kathy Hochul's victory last week in a special election in House district NY-26, a district previously considered a GOP stronghold, the DNC leader said voters were clearly rejecting the Ryan Medicare plan.
"Americans sent a very strong message - not just in New York this week, but in Jacksonville, Fla., last week, when they elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in 20 years; in a state House race in New Hampshire - same issue," Wasserman-Schultz said. "Americans support Medicare and the structure that we have for Medicare.
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