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Ryan Plan Strangely Resembles Obama's

AP | By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR | Posted 03.21.2012

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WASHINGTON -- A new Republican budget would repeal President Barack Obama's health care overhaul but put future retirees in a version of Medicare that...

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Paul Ryan To Do A 180 On Medicare

The Washington Post | Lori Montgomery | Posted 02.13.2012

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House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, who has been castigated by Democrats and hailed by Republicans for his plan to privatize Medicare, will on ...

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Paul Ryan Says He's Open To Making Medicare Plan Optional

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 08.17.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The news from Thursday that House Budget Committee Chair Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) was willing to make his proposal for privatizing Medicare op...

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Dem Senators To Biden: Reject GOP Medicare Plan

AP | HENRY C. JACKSON | Posted 08.06.2011

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WASHINGTON — Five Democratic senators are calling on Vice President Joe Biden to keep the House Republican plan for Medicare out of out of budge...

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GOP Lawmaker: Medicare Will Be Part Of Debt Ceiling Negotiations

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.29.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said on Sunday that the Medicare reform plan authored by House Budget Committee Chairman ...

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Sam Stein

Ryan Says His Plan Repeals The 'Raid' Obama Made To Medicare. It Doesn't

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Besieged by attacks over House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's Medicare plan, Republican lawmakers are amplifying their message th...

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Top Obama Aide Compares 'Poorly Designed' Ryan Budget To His Own Basketball Skills: 'Slow,' 'Can't Jump'

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- There was immediate concern after Tuesday night's special congressional election in upstate New York that the Obama administration had m...

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1st 2012 Presidential Ad Uses Gingrich's Words To Swipe Romney

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.20.2011

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WASHINGTON -- More than 18 months before the 2012 election, the first advertisement in the presidential race has been released, with a newly formed gr...

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WATCH: GOP Lawmaker Faces Hostile Questioning Over Medicare

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 06.27.2011

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WASHINGTON - Rep. Rick Berg (R-N.D.) heard from elderly voters angry about his vote to end Medicare and replace it with a voucher program at the Bisma...

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Representative Ryan Puts the Republicans on the Record

Dean Baker | Posted 06.18.2011

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For years people have accused the Republican Party of being the servants of the rich and powerful at the expense of the broader public. In the past, they would deny this charge and claim that they just had a different view of how the economy works. But Paul Ryan has eliminated any confusion on this point. He proposed, and last week the Republican House approved, a budget bill that will transfer tens of trillions of dollars from ordinary working people to the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry and generic rich people from any industry.

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Ryan Medicare Scheme Would Devastate Entrepreneurship, Jobs

Paul Abrams | Posted 06.12.2011

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It is no accident that the era of entrepreneurship began soon after Medicare was passed.

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Pay Much Attention to the Insurers Behind Paul Ryan's Curtain

Wendell Potter | Posted 06.07.2011

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Wendell Potter

Democrats who think Ryan has guaranteed the GOP's demise by proposing to shred Medicare will soon be rudely disabused of that notion. Insurers have shown time and again they can persuade Americans to act against their best interests.

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