Ryan vows to target Medicare and Medicaid

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Politico

The top House budget writer vowed this week to craft a blueprint for the nation’s fiscal future that proposes significant reforms to Medicare and Medicaid — but not necessarily to Social Security — as he criticized President Barack Obama for choosing not to address entitlement spending in his fiscal 2012 budget.

“Where he has failed on these critical issues, especially the health care entitlements, we plan to step in the breach and provide that kind of leadership by showing the country how we would do things different,” Rep. Paul Ryan, a 41-year-old Wisconsin Republican, said in an interview Tuesday for the POLITICO video series “The Economic Outlook.”

Ryan said House Republicans will not just play at the edges of the major health care programs for the elderly, poor and disabled, for which the White House projected a combined cost of $754 billion.

Asked whether he was talking about “minor tinkering,” Ryan said, “No, I think it’s important that you do comprehensive health care entitlement reform, other kinds of entitlement reform.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/49352.html

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Vouchers for 83 year olds to compete in the marketplace. Unimaginable profits for the insurance industry. No change for those over 55? Yeah, sure, we can believe that. Not. Only tea partiers would trust their medical futures to the GOP. Sentient beings know better.

[Vinnie From Indy]

1. Single payer was the way to deal with healthcare costs

[sharesunited]

4. Is and continues to be! Wring out as much profit as possible!

[Amonester]

7. But, but, but... RonaldReaganRepublicanRyan's plan is...

IF YOU GET SICK: DIE QUICKLY.

sweet guy, eh? :puke:

[mindem]

2. He's 41 years old.

Which makes him a smart ass little repuke punk.

[northoftheborder]

3. Repeat what you said.

[underpants]

5. One Term Ryan

have at it buddy

yeah yeah yeah he will get money from the powers that don't like old and poor people dying and will dominate the air with it but we dominate the ground and that still overrules the air.

Haircut and suit that guy.

[Akoto]

6. Oh, wonderful. I'm 26, just got on Medicaid via SSI disability ...

I'm basically crippled by an incurable chronic pain condition. The fight for SSI was long, and in the interim, the only care I received was what my parents could afford to pay for (imagine how guilty that made me feel at my age).

For the first time, I can actually afford to have myself taken care of through Medicaid. It has changed my life. I don't have to beg the pharma companies to get on their free RX programs, or worry about the bill for seeing my pain management doctor. I can even see other kinds of doctors. After years of fighting for MC, I was falling apart, and now I have physicians capable of patching me back up. Most importantly, I no longer feel like a burden to my family. That's what it means for people like me.

As it is, I get $449/mo in benefits from SSI, $107 in food stamps, and Medicaid. That's what I have to live off of for the indefinite future. Guys like Ryan just can't comprehend the struggles of people so poor, I suppose. They've never had to face it personally.