GOP Budget Expected to Expand Medicare Proposal

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WASHINGTON—House Republicans are expected to unveil a budget Tuesday that seeks to make their proposed revamp of Medicare more politically palatable, while at the same time moving to expand its reach.

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R., Wis.) is expected to unveil a budget that would give people age 55 and younger a choice between keeping traditional government-run Medicare or receiving a subsidy to buy private health insurance, lawmakers said.

Last year, Mr. Ryan had wanted to include 55-year-olds in the revamp but backed off in the face of unhappiness from Republicans who believed the party had made a pledge to people 55 and older to keep Medicare untouched. Instead, in his fiscal 2014 proposal, only people 54 and younger automatically were eligible.

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I don't get it. Before the ACA, people in their 50s would have hard time enrolling in an affordable private insurance, if at all. People in their 50s usually have "pre-existing" conditions, as far as insurance companies are concerned. But with the ACA his plans can work. But if he repeals it...

Does Ryan have any idea how the real world work?

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1. as one of them...SCREW THAT idea....