Paul Ryan To Announce Plan To Preserve Federally Funded Medicare

The Washington Post:

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who has been castigated by Democrats and hailed by Republicans for his plan to privatize Medicare, will on Thursday unveil a new approach that would preserve the 46-year-old federal health program in its current form.

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[elfish]

08:28 PM on 12/18/2011

Iowa Caucus Polling Leader History

[elfish]

08:27 PM on 12/18/2011

desperate

[The Contrary]

09:45 PM on 12/16/2011

Good grief! Just another twisted version of Republic'CONS' agenda. This plan is nothing more than turning Medicare (taxpayers money) into a vehicle for subsidized private health insurance. It does nothing to reduce the cost of health care overall.

Just look at employer-paid health insurance premiums. A survey recently released by The Kaiser Family Foundation reported that annual health insurance premiums for a family of four climbed $15,000 this year. It jumped to 9%! And yes, despite the fact that there are many private health insurance companies for employers to choose from.

http://video.pbs.org/video/2147020757#

Americans must stay on guard and not be tricked into the latest Republic'CONS' Paul Ryan's scheme.

[general75]

01:10 PM on 12/15/2011

Ryan has no heart what so ever. The guy is in bed with big insurance. He keeps trying to cause damage in older americans lives, why ? For a few bucks in his pocket. How does the guy sleep at night.

[Ruthless1]

10:03 AM on 12/15/2011

It's time to get re-elected. He will say whatever it takes and will play nice with others until then.

[brt929]

10:46 AM on 12/15/2011

Exactly!

[blinkthink]

10:02 AM on 12/15/2011

This guy wants to privatize Medicare-it will make it so expensive that it will get cut, cut, cut. Ryan still has the goal to strip it out-the Republicans still want to get rid of every social program-that's never going to change-that was also a part of Ryan's Path to Destitution.

I want to see the CBPP's take on this program. Capable of a 180? Not even close if they are privatizing a part of Medicare. Question is, what about the other things are in this bill?

[TXconfidnz]

09:45 AM on 12/15/2011

Paul Ryan = wind blown plastic bag

[Donald Fannin]

09:37 AM on 12/15/2011

What do you mean a 180 degree turn. He is still privatizing Medicare. For the time being he says the government will pay the premiums. But how long will that last. I have been forced to pay into the medicare system for the last 40 years. I want what I bought anything else is pure fraud. The government has defrauded every working American for the last 40 years.

[5041360]

09:26 AM on 12/15/2011

hopefully his constituents see this guy for what he is = a tepublican has no interest in their issues, except during an election cycle- then he sucks up and tries to make nice- but in reality he has no respect for his constituents-

[blood1]

08:54 AM on 12/15/2011

A poll from his opponent shows that Ryan's number's are dropping. I'm not a voter in WI, but, anytime a politician starts walking back their own plan - and simultaneously kicks the can down the road "we can't even consider this until 2013" is a plaintive plea to "re-elect me and I promise" is similar to their GOP campaign slogan in 2010: elect us for jobs.

I don't buy this walk-back as anything other than another GOP: see all our jobs bills, which are nothing more than deregulation and free gifts to big business, especially energy companies.

[rm10011]

08:48 AM on 12/15/2011

Throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if it sticks........the GOP at it's best!

[WOODSTOCKER60]

08:48 AM on 12/15/2011

."THREE ITEMS FOR WISCONSINS BUCKET LIST:"

.ONE: GET RID OF WALKER
TWO: GET RID OF RYAN
THREE: RID THE STATE OF THE KOCH BROTHERS

[brt929]

10:53 AM on 12/15/2011

You forgot the two brothers or they are father and son, the Fitzgeralds? One is now running for Kohl's Senate seat.  They need to go as well.  

They helped cram through Walker's legislation.

[rgilley]

08:47 AM on 12/15/2011

Ryan and all republicans want to "Privatize" all government functions to the coorporations. Very very much like another Fascist in history Musolini.

"Benito Mussolini is recognized as the father of fascism. When asked how he would describe his movement Mussolini responded, “Fascism should more appropriately be called “Corporatism” because it is a merger of state and corporate power”.
http://www.groundreport.com/Politics/Republican-Fascism/2936214

"Upon assuming state power, ... pursued an agenda not unlike Mussolini's. They crushed organized labor and eradicated all elections, opposition parties, and independent publications. " (Paerrenti p347)
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/Fascism_MParenti_CN.html

"9. Corporate Power is Protected -- The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite."
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Fascism/14_Characteristics_Fascism.html

THIS is the Republican agenda in a nutshell. They are puching America to a Fascist Oligarchy of the 1% of corproate elites.

Ron Paul Lectures Bernanke: U.S. Moving Towards Fascism
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jbi-0Tg1b_g

[BoycottFox2]

08:34 AM on 12/15/2011

It's appears he's going to use the pick, pick, pick at it approach....Ryan needs to go...

[rgilley]

08:48 AM on 12/15/2011

I cannot fathom why the good people in Wisconson ever elected a person so against everything the state has ever stood for.

[BoycottFox2]

08:50 AM on 12/15/2011

Ryans district turned on him..his days are numbered...

[celiawitter]

08:51 AM on 12/15/2011

You've gotten it backwards. He pussied out, because he saw the poll numbers, in his district. He's going to lose his job. That, alone, motivates his "deep" ideals. Typical republican scum.

[Plymouth Pilgrim]

08:32 AM on 12/15/2011

Republicans now see the writing on the wall. The GOP is doomed. The right wing of the party has destroyed it. They are so far right that communism looks like a better alternative to their bigotry and racist agenda. I think after the elections, we will no longer have to worry about this group of fanatics.