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Mediscare warning: Alert the media
Posted May 25, 2011 by Tom Jackson
Updated May 25, 2011 at 06:11 PM
Spot the exaggerations. (Emphases in original.)
Florida Seniors Tell Senator Rubio to Keep His Hands off Medicare
TALLAHASSEE – Florida seniors will participate in a press call on Thursday at 3 p.m. telling Senator Marc (sic) Rubio to not end Medicare. The Republican budget plan replaces Medicare with a privatized voucher program that will double out-of-pocket costs for seniors and put them back into the prescription drug donut hole. For Florida seniors, this plan would increase out-of-pocket expenses by more than $7,300.
Rubio today confirmed that he will vote for the Republican budget and is on record saying, “I will support any plan that saves Medicare, doesn’t impact current seniors and doesn’t hurt economic growth. The Ryan plan does that.”
The Ryan plan, in fact, attempts to balance the budget on the back of this country’s most vulnerable populations while protecting those who created the economic mess. The plan would end Medicare as we know it.
For Americans serious about avoiding national bankruptcy, “ending Medicare as we know it” ought to be an applause line. Blogging at National Review Online’s “Critical Care” outpost Wednesday, healthcare policy analyst John C. Goodman’s post is precisely on point.
Medicare cannot go on unchanged. Since at least 2009, we have received reports of physicians declining to accept new Medicare patients (as I wrote here). Asking the American people whether they want any flavor of reform versus “Medicare continuing the same as it is now” is like asking the Titanic passengers if they’d like the same dinner menu every evening until the ship docks.
Goodman compiles a collection of revealing charts —visual aids! yay!—comparing the probable outcomes of leaving Medicare (and America) to the tender mercies of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) vs. adoption of Paul Ryan’s premium support plan. Check them out.
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