Consider the terrifying Medicare proposal. Ryan would give seniors a Truly, I think it’s a shocking budget, and the kind of thing that no Rep. Paul Ryan’s new budget proposal — which essentially privatizes Social Security and strangles Medicare inflation with cost-controlled vouchers — is a really important lesson in budgeting. It’s very easy to fix our long-term deficit crisis. All you have to do is blow up our entitlement program. There’s a bit of a debate about whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nvoucher that would immediately be worth less than Medicare spending per
\nenrollee. Over the next decade, the buying power of the voucher would
\ngrow more slowly than medical spending, but at the same time, the cost
\nof premiums will increase because seniors would wander into the more
\nexpensive private market for insurance. Anybody wanna know what rationing look like?
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\nFiscal hawks like talking about “tightening belts.” This goes way beyond tightening by a few belt holes. This plan is more
\nlike taking off your belt and tying yourself to a treadmill that has no
\noff-switch. It’s an effective weight loss plan, indeed, but good luck convincing the neighbors to sign up for prepaid 12-month plan.<\/p>\n
\nparty in power would ever have the cojones to propose. Indeed,
\nRepublicans didn’t even have the cojones to co-sign health care reform’s Medicare cuts. Six
\nmonths after the Democrats’ proposed Medicare savings made Republicans
\nshout bloody murder (literally: Death Panels), Rep. Paul Ryan is now
\nproposing the program’s gradual extermination. Like any good dystopian
\nparable, this doesn’t deserve to be taken literally. It’s about the lesson: Our deficit crisis in an
\nentitlement crisis, and the solution won’t be pretty.
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