“If (Ryan) wants to protect Medicare for his mother he should first of all thank President Obama"

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____ During a campaign stop in The Villages, Florida Saturday, (Paul) Ryan appeared with his mother, who is on Medicare, and continued hammering the administration for a $716 billion reduction in the program’s spending, claiming Obama “raided” Medicare to pay for his own healthcare reform bills.

(Senior Obama campaign adviser Robert Gibbs) pushed back on those claims during an interview on Fox News Sunday. “If he wants to protect Medicare for his mother he should first of all thank President Obama for what he’s done over the past few years to extend the life of the Medicare trust fund, to help seniors with their prescription drug costs to help seniors get free preventive care. ” said Gibbs.

He said Obama had extended the life of the program “by over eight years.”

“We found $716 billion in efficiency and savings primarily by reducing the subsidies that the government was paying to Medicare Advantage through private insurance companies, something that was costing Medicare, not saving Medicare money as it was originally designed to do,” said Gibbs.


read: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/244261-gibbs-ryan-should-thank-obama-for-strengthening-medicare

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1. Instead he tells lies about how Obama robbed Medicare

while his mom applauds.

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3. they should both be ashamed

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2. His mom lives in a 'retirement community' with an average home price of well over $150K.

Does anyone really think they run out to their mail boxes excitely waiting on the SS check?