A New Plan to Mess With Medicare

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The Nation ‏@thenation
Paul Ryan Looks to Break an Old Promise With a New Plan to Mess With Medicare http://tnat.in/ioGOp


Ryan is working up a new budget plan. And instead of only targeting “people 54 and below,” he has according to published reports “privately been floating the idea of allowing his changes to Medicare to kick in for Americans younger than 56.”

Indeed, says a House Republican who attended a closed-door meeting with Ryan Monday, the Budget Committee chairman has told colleagues that, in order to balance the budget over the next decade (as his new plan will propose), he might have to adjust the age as high as 59.

“Paul Ryan was pretty clear that that could happen. You could have to take it up to a higher number like 56, 57, 59… it could be higher than 55, but he also said, ‘We don’t have any numbers yet,’ ” the Republican lawmaker told The Hill newspaper.

59?

What this suggests is that, in order to initiate the European-style austerity agenda that Ryan and many top Republicans now appear to be determined to bring to America, they are entertaining proposals that could upset the retirement plans of millions of Americans who had been planning to rely on traditional Medicare coverage in their retirement . . .


read more: http://www.thenation.com/blog/173191/paul-ryan-looks-break-old-promise-new-plan-mess-medicare

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