Are we going to strand our Seniors? Leave them to chance? The Republicans reject the health care insurance overhaul and state they will provide a private insurance option for Medicare.
What? None of it makes sense. How can a party seek to overhaul Medicare and leave other Americans stranded without a chance for their own wellness or survival? This is a plan? It doesn't even recognize the current law.
The suggestion by this incredible revelation of changing the way Medicare is abandoned for private insurance is a trap that will only further stand our citizens. There is no prevention for increases in cost for private insurances. If the Republicans are elected to majorities in 2012, there won't be any State Exchanges either. So, Mr. Ryan is a deceptive author that seeks to change the vision of our benevolent country.
I heard someone from the CBO speak today stating it would be a far better answer for health insurance if everyone was employed. Imagine that. An employee from the CBO stumping for the GOP. That would be a good idea if Wall Street Republicans didn't continually victimize the majority of citizens and health insurance companies didn't remove those that are ill from their roles. Such an answer by a CBO employee is completely blind to the reality of our capitalized based democracy in an environment of destroyed regulations and those that seek to continue to destroy the barriers between profits at the price of human life.
This plan by Ryan isn't realistic nor moral.
March 25, 2012 2:20 PM
(CBS News)
Republican Congressman Paul Ryan (click title to entry - thank you) on Sunday defended his controversial 2013 budget proposal, telling CBS' "Face the Nation" that the plan would help America avoid a debt crisis while creating jobs and spurring economic growth.
"We're putting the budget on a path to balance and to pay the debt off. We want to avoid a debt crisis. The president's budget brings us closer to a debt crisis," Ryan told CBS' Norah O'Donnell.
Ryan's proposed budget, which he unveiled last week, drew immediate criticism from Democrats, who say it places the burden of reducing the deficit solely on the backs of the middle-class and the elderly.
Ryan on Sunday argued that his proposal requires sacrifice from all Americans - and disputed theWhite House claim that it would give millionaires a $150,000 tax cut.
"Those numbers are obviously not credible," Ryan said.
In addition to adding a private insurance option for seniors using Medicare, Ryan's budget would overhaul the tax code and would create just two income tax brackets - 25 percent and 10 percent. The proposal is unlikely to pass the Senate, controlled by Democrats, and has little chance of becoming law. It does, however, set up an ideological battle between the left and the right over budget priorities as the 2012 election nears....
