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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumPaul Ryan says Obamacare caused Medicare to go broke faster. Reality is exactly the opposite.
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Paul Ryan says Obamacare caused Medicare to go broke faster. Reality is exactly the opposite. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/paul-ryan-says-medicare-privatization-is-on.html
Paul Ryan Says Medicare Privatization Is On
By Jonathan Chait
Wherever youre hiding, Medicare, Paul Ryan will find you.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
During the campaign, coverage of the issues was blotted out by coverage of Hillary Clintons emails and Donald Trumps broad suite of sociopathic tendencies. And of the issues that did receive any attention, a conspicuously missing one was Paul Ryans plan to push Medicare beneficiaries into private health insurance. Reporters just assumed that, since Trump never talked about it, it wont happen. But Paul Ryan still wants it to happen. And in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier, Ryan said Medicare privatization is on.
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Ryan tells Baier, Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke. This is false. In fact, its the complete opposite of the truth. The Medicare trust fund has been extended 11 years as a result of the passage of Obamacare, whose cost reforms have helped bring health care inflation to historic lows. It is also untrue that repealing Obamacare requires changing traditional Medicare. But Ryan clearly believes he needs to make this claim in order to sell his plan, or probably even to convince fellow Republicans to support it.
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Paul Ryan says Obamacare caused Medicare to go broke faster. Reality is exactly the opposite. (Original Post)
riversedge
Nov 2016
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WhiteTara
(29,730 posts)1. Here's his contact info fro
both Wisconsin and DC. Call him on his lie and tell we won't stand for privatization!
https://paulryan.house.gov/contact/
lunasun
(21,646 posts)2. Maybe pence and Ryan can have a contest on who lies the most. We get to watch it on the tee vee
duffyduff
(3,251 posts)3. Ryan is an addle-brained Ayn Randite
His shit trial balloon on Medicare should and most probably will be shot down in short order.
It would literally end the Republican Party.