CBO on Ryan Plan: You Won't Even Qualify for Medicare for Two More Years

[RhodaA]

From a Daily Kos Article today:

A Truly Sick Part Of Ryan's Kill Medicare Plan That You May Not Have Heard About
by Gary Norton

"The CBO Analysis of the Ryan, soon to be Republican, plan to end Medicare reveals something that's largely flying under the radar. Seniors won't be able to get his crummy vouchers when they are sixty-five they have to wait two more years, until they are sixty-seven. No Medicare, no voucher, no nothing until you are sixty-seven.Ryan doesn't talk about it and it doesn't appear in the plan published on the Vouchercare website. One has to go to the Congressional Budget Office report to find it. And there you discover that under the Ryan/Republican plan:

'Starting in 2022, the age of eligibility for Medicare would increase by two months per year until it reached 67 in 2033.'

"That means that if you were born in 1966 or later you won't be eligible for diddlysquat until you are sixty-seven. No Medicare, no voucher, no nothing."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/15/964975/-A-Truly-Sick-Part-Of-Ryans-Kill-Medicare-Plan-That-You-May-Not-Have-Heard-About

[emulatorloo]

1. Rec. Thnks for posting this. n.t

[RhodaA]

3. Hope it gets out; emailed to Rachel -"What No One is Talking About"

[hedgehog]

2. It's his secret plan to make the American Public demand Single Payer!

[crazylikafox]

4. Hopefully if he keeps raising the age most folks will be dead before they qualify

No Medical care for two addition years should speed that along.

:sarcasm:

Let's keep this kicked. It needs to get more attention.

[Angry Dragon]

5. Why does he Americans so much??

Is he one of those bachmann was wondering if they were un-American??

[Scuba]

6. Ryan hiding this is no surprise. He's a deceitful little turd. n/t

[RhodaA]

7. He collected Social Security Survivor's Benefits

From TPM today:

"We all know that Paul Ryan worships at the altar of Ayn Rand. We know that Ayn Rand spent years railing against collectivism and parasites who live off the state. Many are aware that Ryan collected Social Security Survivor's benefits upon the death of his father. But do people know that when Rand was diagnosed with lung cancer, she applied for and began receiving Social Security/Medicare under her husband's name O'Connor? (See Anne Heller's Rand biography Ayn Rand and the World She Made.)"

[Scuba]

8. So under his new plan, he wouldn't be here? Hmmm.