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Republican medical plan unfair to the poor
The Republican plan for medical care is simple, amoral and evil.
The Republicans want the seniors to vote for a Medicare plan that allows those older than 55 to have Medicare until they die and to tell those younger than 55 good luck, you are at the tender mercies of private health insurers.
Medicaid would be given as a reduced block grant to states to do as they wish. Right now there are 14 states where, if you make more than $5,000 a year, you are making too much money to be eligible for Medicaid as a family of three. Thank goodness the poor don’t get sick.
Food stamps should be considered part of health care also, so the Republicans must cut it, too. Two dollars apiece per day for a family of three is way too much food.
Republicans just don’t understand that a civilized society doesn’t let people die in the street. I have too much compassion for mankind to be a Republican.
Dean E. Owens
Palo
You should read the whole plan, you HAVE a choice of staying as is or going with the changes.
Always background check before you publish
I suggest that you do some fact checking before commenting. The option of staying on the current plan was embraced in an unofficial agreement that Ryan worked out with Senator Wyden (OR), but it never made it into the Ryan budget.
Some dishonest Republicans have tried to say that the Ryan/Wyden plan is the same as the Ryan budget. Apparently you heard that and believed it.
You will not find the “keep your traditional Medicare Coverage” option in the Ryan budget. I challenge you to prove otherwise.
As reference – Here is the Wyden-Ryan plan (that is not part of the Ryan budget) http://budget.house.gov/uploadedfiles/wydenryan.pdf
“You will not find the “keep your traditional Medicare Coverage” option in the Ryan budget. I challenge you to prove otherwise.”
Richie, sorry to correct you but Romney is running as the Presidential canidate and Ryan has spoken many times that Romney’s plan does include that option. Please capture the facts.
BTW – why don’t you explain how Obama will pay for his plans. An examination of the Obama budget shows unsustainable trillion dollar deficits as far as they eye can see. The Romney-Ryan budget shows how to sustain their plans.
I note no proof of what you say. Please provide us with a source that confirms that the traditional Medicare option will be available under the Ryan/Romney plan for anyone who elects it, regardless of their current age.
Obama doesn’t have a budget does he?
And why, Mr. Ahart, might that be?
Lyin like Ryan Gary, Lyin like Ryan.
It’s clear to me that we should all be in it only for ourselves. We can’t tax the rich.
Poor decisions made by the boomer generation
have led us to this, our current economic mess. The young and the poor are now being asked to work harder and pay for the mistakes of the Boomer Generation. Todays retirees could have asked the rich to pay more, but they didn’t. So, there is no money to pay their benefits. I’m fine with that.
The greatest threat to capitalism is capitalism.
Well Barry…….what do ya want? Communism?
Love the quote “Republicans just don’t understand that a civilized society doesn’t let people die in the street. I have too much compassion for mankind to be a Republican.”
If you have so much compassion, then you foot the bill for all the people that Republicans want “to die.” Put 100% of your disposable income into someone elses health care. That would, after all, show how much compassion you have and how better you are than those “evil and amoral” Republicans are. Now if a Republican comes to you and asks for a hand out, you have to give it to them, right? If you didn’t wouldn’t you be just like you think they are?
The only Republican plan is for seniors to die sooner, and quicker, and to bankrupt them in the process- transferring their assets to 1% corporations rather than family.
Plato predicted 25 hundred years ago that democrcy would forsake responsibility and turn liberty into license. It seems he was right about some of the people now.