Dems Find Message Discipline Against GOP Plan To Scrap Medicare

[NJMaverick]

The Dems need to hammer this home. Since the right controls the media the Dems MUST develop this sort of message discipline.

Quote:A funny thing happened on the way to a government shutdown. Democrats got on message about the House Republicans' other, bigger budget, which creates a policy blueprint for the next decade.

That message? The GOP plan to end Medicare and hack away at Medicaid is a non-starter. This came from top Democrats across the political spectrum.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said, "The Republican budget is unfair because it ends the Medicare guarantee for seniors while giving away tens of billions of dollars in tax subsidies to Big Oil."

Her top lieutenant, Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) didn't hold back either. "[T]he Republican budget shifts costs to seniors by ending Medicare as we know it and dismantling Medicaid."

Other top Democrats in the House echoed this view, as did their counterparts in the upper chamber.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/...hp?ref=fpa

[jaxx]

The pubs are out to dismantle the government as we know it, to destroy all social safety nets. I can't understand how people can vote for these things, it will hurt them. I watched Ryan yesterday, cocky and assured that his slashing the budget would be a winner. All he needed was a smirk.

[Born_A_Truman]

Quote:According to the CBO analysis the benefit would cover 32 percent of the cost of a health insurance package equivalent to the current Medicare benefit (Figure 1). This means that the beneficiary would pay 68 percent of the cost of this package. Using the CBO assumption of 2.5 percent annual inflation, the voucher would have grown to $9,750 by 2030. This means that a Medicare type plan for someone age 65 would be $30,460 under Representative Ryan's plan, leaving seniors with a bill of $20,700. (This does not count various out of pocket medical expenditures not covered by Medicare.)

Let me repeat this:
This means that a Medicare type plan for someone age 65 would be $30,460 under Representative Ryan's plan, leaving seniors with a bill of $20,700.

And, he wants to start his voucher program for all seniors who turn 65 in 2022. That means if you were born in 1957 or later, this is your "Medicare" or shall we call it "MediCan't"?

[Eponine]

(04-06-2011 09:49 AM)Born_A_Truman Wrote:  

Quote:According to the CBO analysis the benefit would cover 32 percent of the cost of a health insurance package equivalent to the current Medicare benefit (Figure 1). This means that the beneficiary would pay 68 percent of the cost of this package. Using the CBO assumption of 2.5 percent annual inflation, the voucher would have grown to $9,750 by 2030. This means that a Medicare type plan for someone age 65 would be $30,460 under Representative Ryan's plan, leaving seniors with a bill of $20,700. (This does not count various out of pocket medical expenditures not covered by Medicare.)

Let me repeat this:
This means that a Medicare type plan for someone age 65 would be $30,460 under Representative Ryan's plan, leaving seniors with a bill of $20,700.

And, he wants to start his voucher program for all seniors who turn 65 in 2022. That means if you were born in 1957 or later, this is your "Medicare" or shall we call it "MediCan't"?

I like RyanCare, though it should probably be RyanYouDon'tGetNoStinkingCare.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

I saw someone define it as "RyanCare" I like it. But probably better as RepubliCare.

[sandnsea]

Where are those "keep your hands off my medicare" gray hairs now?

[nofurylike]

"Since the right controls the media the Dems MUST develop this sort of message discipline."

absolutely, NJMaverick! WE must carry that message everywhere, too.

thank you for posting this! it is so important!!