House GOP Budget To Call For Dramatic Changes To Medicare, Medicaid

CNN:

House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wisconsin, will unveil a highly anticipated 2012 Republican budget next week that proposes dramatic changes to political lightning rods -- entitlements.

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Comments

[Lynn Damron]

11:52 AM on 04/27/2011

Wisonsin, please recall Paul Ryan!

[jimpager]

01:15 PM on 04/05/2011

Why not recall Paul Ryan as well while we're at it on the state legislators?
Let's put Paul's plan to a personal referendum. If Wisconsin likes his budget, Paul keeps his job. If Wisconsin doesn't like his budget, then Paul's unemployed like the rest of us and soon the Wisconsin state legislators. Direct Democracy. Ain't democracy great.

[Lynn Damron]

11:51 AM on 04/27/2011

Wisconsin - Please recall Paul Ryan for the good of the country!

[marka]

07:51 AM on 04/05/2011

Hmm...cut Medicare and Medicaid, make the Bush tax cuts permanent, and cut corporate income taxes. How this any different from the ol' time religion that the republicans always preach? As always, this is good for the wealthy and bad for the poor, working, and middle-classes.

What a surprise!

[LightShadow62]

03:36 AM on 04/05/2011

Fine, kill Medicare but I want every dime I've paid for Medicare over the last 30 odd years back, with interest. If I can't get the benefits then I shouldn't have to pay the money.

Same thing goes for Social Security.

[TimtheEnchanted]

12:21 AM on 04/04/2011

From; http://www.roadmap.republicans.budget.house.gov/Plan/

"As the marketplace begins to respond to this new patient-centered control, the resulting increase in competition will improve the quality of services and provide more options to meet the diverse needs of Americans, while lowering costs."

I can remember when McDonald's was the only game in town. All the competition from BK, Wendy's, Sonic, et al. have not kept a burger, fries and coke less that $1.00 (even with ag subsidies). So with that as an economic model, why does Ryan think old guy like me are buying his shell game?

[SisterAnn]

07:04 AM on 04/04/2011

Isn't that what they said about energy deregulation?

[dmb1234]

01:52 PM on 04/03/2011

Just wait until the majority of the "Middle Class" being " "Attacked" by the Republicans do the same thing to the Democratic party as the Middle CLass did to them in November, 2010. Demoncrats just do not get it, which is why they get from the Middle Class.

[MilesLong]

02:58 PM on 04/03/2011

Not only do you need help with your grammar, but you spelled your name wrong too... (snicker)

Miles "Let's Leave The Lack of Cogent Thought Alone" Long

[dmb1234]

09:47 PM on 04/03/2011

Wow, your reply just rips my theory apart. I must be wrong. Never mind.

[Lindarella]

11:47 PM on 04/03/2011

MilesLong,
You took the words out of my fingers!

[TimtheEnchanted]

11:57 PM on 04/03/2011

next time in"modern" "english" "please"

[RicoShay]

12:56 PM on 04/03/2011

These types of ridiculous proposals will ensure we have a single payer system by 2012.

[David Hall 3]

12:54 PM on 04/03/2011

Federal Taxes are lower than at any time since 1960; Federal Deficits are higher than at any time since 1960; Defense Spending is higher than at any point since World War II. Privatized Wall Street HealthCare Monopolies take a larger share of the U.S. economy each year now than Federal Government. Privatized HealthCare rates have gone up 4 times faster than any other sector outside of Military nearly every year.

It's not hard to see what needs to be done, but none of these facts is being acted upon intelligently. Wall Street continues to win. Wealthy continue to become more-so. Everything else decays and descends into deeper layers of debt and poverty.

Let ALL Bush Tax Cuts expire for everyone. That puts 4 Trillion over ten years back in to the Federal Budget to pay for civil necessities.

Get out of the Middle East, close 800 military bases around the world, rid the budget of defense contractors and return most of the functions and engineering of National Defense back over to the Pentagon.

Remove professional lobbyists privileged access to public officials and put a cap of $100 donations (including travel and gifts) toward any candidate or party from any registered contributor (SS# required); eliminate contributions from corporations and foreign governments.

Bold the section in the Constitution that says "AND PROMOTE THE GENERAL WELFARE" -- which is the primary reason these days people form and benefit from collectives of diverse communities under One Nation.

[unionbrother]

12:08 AM on 04/04/2011

I agree with you and to even make it better, I say screw the Bush tax cuts, and bring back the Raygun tax cuts (which is where all this started) ...Debt problem sovled within 6 months.....F & F

[Lindarella]

12:13 AM on 04/04/2011

Brilliant! How could they refuse?

[pvernier]

12:40 PM on 04/03/2011

Military cuts not Medicare. Why is it Ok to bomb people but not heal. Twisted and evil.

[TimtheEnchanted]

11:58 PM on 04/03/2011

F&F #24

[joyfulworld]

12:35 PM on 04/03/2011

Of course, Ryan and the rest of the D.C. leaches will still have their gold-plated, Rolls-Royce health care!!! What do lthey propose to do with our independantly well-funded Medicare plan? Other than destroy it, that is?

[Lindarella]

11:52 PM on 04/03/2011

I think the government, gold-plated, Rolls-Royce health care for congress should be abolished! Let the congress people find their own private health care in the market and then they may better understand the problems.

[Hotspot]

12:34 PM on 04/03/2011

. . . What's going unnoticed in Ryan's plan . . . he has a tax INCREASE on incomes $20,000 thru $250,000 . . .again taking away from the middle class to pay for the rich.

[SueMVetforObama2]

03:06 PM on 04/03/2011

F & F

[Lindarella]

11:54 PM on 04/03/2011

But, but, but ... they are the ones opposed to raising taxes!

[TimtheEnchanted]

12:01 AM on 04/04/2011

right, but they are not taxes, so-to-speak; now they're 'vouchers'.

[Didderbops]

12:31 PM on 04/03/2011

Yet another salvo in the war on the poor and middle class. And I'm sure Obama and the rest of the caving Democrats will capitulate yet again in the end.

[William1950]

12:26 PM on 04/03/2011

the right wing version of america is one where private companies handle everything... there will be no government services.. no government oversight... no no no..... everything you can think of that is a government service, or function , they want to be privatized.. everything...
and then they want to legislate your morals, on their terms.

[TimtheEnchanted]

12:03 AM on 04/04/2011

wasn't that what was called, the wild west?

[SisterAnn]

07:01 AM on 04/04/2011

That era was called 'just before the great depression'.

[PS Nymn]

12:14 PM on 04/03/2011

If all of the Bush tax cuts were phased out, we would reduce the deficit by the same amount ($4 trillion).

[Lindarella]

11:58 PM on 04/03/2011

It is so obvious, and those tax cuts were never set up to be permanent. Extending tax cuts for the rich when it bankrupts the country is insane!

[Cabo600]

12:06 PM on 04/03/2011

Republicans want to squash everything that is good and decent in this country and replace it with their uncaring, empty r0tten souls.