The Hill: White House on Ryan's Medicare Reforms: It is a 'voucher plan'

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White House on Ryan's Medicare reforms: It is a 'voucher plan'
By Sam Youngman
06/01/11 02:15 PM ET

Hours after Rep. Paul Ryan asked President Obama to stop “demagoguing” his Medicare reforms by calling it a voucher plan, the White House declared it has no intention of backing off.

“What you call it doesn't change what it is and what it does,” said White House press secretary Jay Carney. “It is a voucher plan.”

Carney said that the president's criticisms -- he would not endorse or condemn the efforts of other Democrats to demonize the proposal -- are not “a matter of demagoguery.”

“There is no question that on the issue of Medicare, there are significant differences,” Carney said.

Carney said that regardless of what the technical details of the plan might be, the result is that Ryan's plan would “shift the cost burden” to the elderly, the poor and the middle class.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/164213-white-house-on-ryans-medicare-reforms-it-is-a-voucher-plan

[KansDem]

1. We need to get the "middlemen" out of affairs of state and the people.

Government reflects the will of the people; the people make up the government. Keep "third-party" sources, who see only profit in this relationship, out of the "social contract." We don't need them; they'll have to, like the rest of us, work for a living.