Full script can be found at: budget.house.gov House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan: "We can no longer let politicians in Washington deny the danger to Medicare -- the danger is all too real, and the health of our nation's seniors is far too important. We have to save Medicare to avoid disruptions in benefits for current seniors, and to strengthen the program for future generations. House Republicans have put forward a plan to do just that. Democratic leaders in Congress have failed to produce a plan -- it has been 755 days since Senate Democrats even passed a budget. Meanwhile, the President's plan would empower a panel of 15 unelected bureaucrats to cut Medicare for current seniors, while failing to save the program for future retirees. "This video lays out the clear choice our nation faces on Medicare: Will Medicare become a program in which a board of bureaucrats manages its bankruptcy by denying care to seniors? Or will leaders work together to save and strengthen Medicare by empowering seniors to choose health care plans that work best for them, with less support for the wealthy and more help for the poor and the sick? House Republicans have advanced solutions to save Medicare. Instead of working with us, the leaders of the Democratic Party have opted to play politics with the health security of America's seniors." -- To learn more about the House-passed Fiscal Year 2012 Budget -- The Path to Prosperity: budget.house.gov To learn more about the facts on the ...
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These days (it used to be worse), the average person receives 3 times (or more) the benefits from Medicare than they pay into it. I can understand why so many don’t want that to change. Can you understand why that formula won’t work in the long run? Hint: It’s simple math.
Ha, the right-wingers reveal their motives in the comment sections of videos like this. Ryan is disingenuously claiming that his plan won’t result in less care for the elderly, the poor and children. But all of the comments are indignant that “their” tax money is being used to care for other people. It’s obvious that the R’s want to destroy medicare, not save it.
Also I note that republicans are never opposed to wastes of money like the drug war or Afghanistan. Just health care for the poor.
@countess1900 I have been robbed, robbed by folks who think the increasing the role of govt to take care of them is acceptable and I AM angry about it,but that doesn’t mean I don’t want a better system for my sons.I’m not in agreement with your food stamp analogy.I cant see how choosing your own ins policy will be a less attractive alternative tothe smaller choice in physicians when the bureaucrats attempts at price control only leave the hacks and less desirable docs willing to accept medicare.
@countess1900 also the “coffer isn’t empty” because someone borrowed from it, its empty because its paying out more than its taking in and its only going to get worse, its a bad setup that is doomed to insolvency. If an investment co delivered the same amount of returns for the money as SSI they would be prosecuted for fraud. Let future generations provide for themselves by providing the programs necessary to do so instead of confiscating 15% of their earnings “on their behalf”.
@countess1900 Again, with all due respect ma’am, it sounds like you are just as biased against anything GOP as much as I am “Big Govt” or “Govt run”. TEFRA in 82 was business and excise taxes and the removal of some business tax deductions.TEFRA was a sucker punch from democraps in that it was sold by promising $3 in cuts to $1in tax hike which they never delivered. In 81 the top 1% paid 17.6%, top10% paid 48% but in 88 the top1% paid 27.5% and top 10% paid 57.2 of the fed tax burden.
@magus4u29 And I have a friend on medicare who went to an ear nose and throat doctor recently. The 20 min doctor visit cost over $400. Medicare paid it in full. I’ve never seen my private insurance pay that much money for a simple doctor visit.
I think Ryan’s plan will stop the waste and abuse going on with medicare today.
I have private health insurance and my premium was just raised by a large amount. One of the reasons listed was because I was paying for people on medicare. So it’s not only our tax dollars going to pay for medicare, but also our private insurance premiums.
My doctor told me last year when I was in for a visit that he just got a letter from medicare saying they would be paying him 25% less. He said he would have to stop taking medicare patients.
@tbwil11 So after you have been robbed you want to accept it with no recourse. I bet not really.
BTW medicare voucher = rationing… because for examples you get foodstamps (which are vouchers, right). The price of food goes up you get less food. (i.e. less medical care). Also lets say your diet now requires that you must drink a tea (or you will die) that is only grown in China but you can only buy milk with your food stamps. So unless you have additional income you die.
@tbwil11 Its so much I’ll have to use short hand. Reagan enacted TEFRA 82′ & TRA 86′. He said it was to raise revenue to prepare to the soon to retire baby boomers. But instead it shifted Am. wealth to the richest while mid Am see less in their paychecks. Then Reagan, Bush Sr & Bush Jr each borrowed from the SSI retirement fund by writing bogus T-bills. 2010 Repub insisted continuing tax cuts for the wealthy but tell me I have to act mature & accept that the coffer is empty of MY money.
I don’t see Rep. Ryan’s name as a co-sponsor of H.R. 1489 (“Return to Prudent Banking Act of 2011″). How, then, can I be sure this Medicare reform proposal is not made on (and for) Wall Street? Unless this party acts to implement policy along the lines of Lincoln’s “greenbacks” policy, which is like FDR’s reform of Hoover’s RFC, then I am not buying the “entitlements going broke” meme. Address the wealth of the nation first, then we can talk spending.
Ryan is laying out the truth about medicare and coming up with the beginnings of a great alternative to the failing system. It was good enough for those in congress to opt out of medicare, I hope I get the same opportunity.
@RamJim9697 Liberals are the ones who deal in facts. Right-wingers call people names. Have a nice life in your fantasy land.
@Doclove71 Just because your name is Doclove71 and you claim to be a doctor I have no reason to believe you unless you show some proof. What field of internal medicine? Which school? Which hospital or the name of your private practice? You do know it is “losing” right? Since you are educated enough to be a doctor that spelling losing wrong should bother you at least a little bit.
The Ryan budget plan kills medicare in its entirety and shows no balance for many decades. Simple facts.
Republican Medicare Rally Cry …. Does Grandma Deserve Any Less Than Congress?
~Health insurance companies are PREDATORS…YES..They watch MEDICARE pay BILLIONS of dollars each year and they WANT that money….If YOU and I don’t put a stop to it the REPUBLICANS will DESTROY MEDICARE & funnel the BILLIONS to the insurance companies….
@Doclove71 says “we are afraid of huge reductions in payments once the system collapses.”
LMAO! Your about as much a doctor as Paul Ryan is a honest politician.
Maybe if this guy would show leadership and cut ALL the waste while reforming Medicare his argument would be more believable. It’s hard to take him seriously when he insists on sending our TAX DOLLARS to foreign countries to pay for their health care and build their roads while insisting this is the only way.
@betterdays105 liberals deal with things with emotions to win the fights obviously ur trying that path, which is why i will say, you cannot reply to me anymore, conservatives deal with facts liberals, emotions to win fights, Until you get smart, well thats not ganna happen.. obviously u only read the first 2 words i put
@deficithawker You know this person personally do you wise guy?
@UBSCARED Scared Clown, you and your other YT id or butt buddy deficithawkwer seem to follow each other around and call folks with views different than yours a dumbass while making assinine claims and personal insults. Lower healthcare costs do not equate to lower pay as a physician. Being competitive doesnt “drive down profits”…unless you’re a hack.
@Doclove71 You’re a dumb ass. You worry about “loosing” money under Obama’s plan but Ryan claims in this video that his plan will drive down health care costs which means you will have lower pay if you are a physician. His argument is that he will increase competition and drive down your profits. Yet here you are claiming to be a physician, whining about lower profits and supporting Ryan. Perhaps you realize that Ryan’s plan won’t effectively drive down costs.
@RamJim9697 – “Your stupid.” Wow, what insightful analysis! Amazing how right-wingers on YouTube call people names while those of us on the left deal with the facts, something those on the right have a hard time dealing with.
Ryan’s plan would give billions more to the insurance companies via vouchers. And where does the money for those vouchers come from? You and me, that’s who!
Can you say CORPORATE WELFARE??? This nigger (Ryan) should know better! F U Ryan and the rest of your corporate slave (GOP) buddies!
@Doclove71 You’re not a physician.
Fuck you Paul Ryan.