Comments about ‘Big health cost shift to elderly in GOP plan’

Ryan calls his Medicare idea "premium support?." Big health cost shift to elderly that live on a fixed income, where's the AARP here in this (if you get sick or ill, die first before reaching the ER Room), GOP plan?.

Should we bow down to the new House GOP budget, hailed by backers as a sobering correction for the nation's spending binge, and denounced by critics as an attack on health programs for middle-class retirees and the poor. What these Republicans did after the 2010 election was extend the Bush tax cuts that in essance Bankrupted our country. Adding 800 billion to the defecit. I got an idea. Instead of quibbling about a measly 30-50 billion to pass the budget resolution, Let the Tax cuts EXPIRE. Problem solved. Then you dont have to attack WIC, take food from the mouths of poor children, or kick poor people off of assistance programs. Everything the republicans stand for is just insane. The "young-punk" House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would reduce total federal spending, deficits and debt, saving money for federal taxpayers and it would be tempered by a cost shift to future retirees.

The Republican Party has offered up a vastly different vision of the future of health care for those 54 years old and younger. Instead of the National Health Care of other developed Western countries, including Japan, the critical worry and intellectual time and planning will fall on the individual to be responsible for their own health care. In other countries, their citizens have accepted a larger amount of their money going to the government to provide health care services and they don't worry about all the specific decision-making and budgeting that the Republicans are proposing. Instead those citizens of these other countries focus what money they have left on doing what they want for leisure and other personal pursuits.

The Republican plan would promote vastly more individual liberty and responsibility for an individual's own life, including health care. We probably better ask the future generation what vision of the future they would prefer and be willing to pay for and accept. There is no right or wrong answer here.

'A report from the Congressional Budget Office provided added fodder for critics, after nonpartisan experts concluded most future retirees would pay considerably more for health care under the GOP approach which turns Medicare into a voucher-like plan for those now 54 and younger.' - Article

...I don't think I need to add anything to this.

Paul D. Ryan right now. His statements about grandma being forced to eat dog food because of heartless Republicans and their insane crusade for solvency will be a staple of Democratic talking points, especially with the White House desperate to win back seniors alienated by ObamaCare. Oops..... It has already started. Go figure. It's true.