What Paul Ryan is advocating is privatizing Medicare so that the FUTURE generation have a chance to get Medicare just like the baby boomers of today by allowing private company to run it more efficiently than the robber barons we elected as our representatives. As you may have heard, under the radar, the Obama's administration ALREADY robbed Medicare of $700B in order to start funding Obamacare. This will definitely affect CURRENT and FUTURE seniors as presently, all doctors who participate in Medicare are already seeing their fees being reduced. What Paul Ryan suggested do NOT change any of current senior's benefits only those born after the 60's. Right now, Social Security and Medicare are already broke because the governments kept "borrowing" from them for other purposes, so something must be done to preserve it. Don't believe the libs' story that Paul Ryan is trying to stop seniors who are already on Social Security and Medicare today from receiving it since that is not true. Seniors, wake up, the Obama government is the robber of your future Medicare through the Obamacare. Your Social Security checks will not be stopped by Paul Ryan or the Republicans. Do not let Obama fear mongers play with your heads. We have more to fear about Obamacare than Paul Ryan's sugge...
What Paul Ryan is advocating is privatizing Medicare so that the FUTURE generation have a chance to get Medicare just like the baby boomers of today by allowing private company to run it more efficiently than the robber barons we elected as our representatives. As you may have heard, under the radar, the Obama's administration ALREADY robbed Medicare of $700B in order to start funding Obamacare. This will definitely affect CURRENT and FUTURE seniors as presently, all doctors who participate in Medicare are already seeing their fees being reduced. What Paul Ryan suggested do NOT change any of current senior's benefits only those born after the 60's. Right now, Social Security and Medicare are already broke because the governments kept "borrowing" from them for other purposes, so something must be done to preserve it. Don't believe the libs' story that Paul Ryan is trying to stop seniors who are already on Social Security and Medicare today from receiving it since that is not true. Seniors, wake up, the Obama government is the robber of your future Medicare through the Obamacare. Your Social Security checks will not be stopped by Paul Ryan or the Republicans. Do not let Obama fear mongers play with your heads. We have more to fear about Obamacare than Paul Ryan's suggestion of privatizing Medicare. Under Obamacare, the rationing of care will take place, you can book it. Seniors will not get the medical procedures they need without the approval of Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) members (already in place in DC). The IPAB (aka the death panel) will decide, not your physician, if one is either "too old" or "too sick" to get a hip replacement, as an example. If you are too old, you'll be sent home with medicines and visits by nurses, just like in England and Canada. Yes, the Obamacare advocates conveniently left this out or denied that this would happen to seniors once Obamacare is funded (not yet now). Realistically speaking, we just do not have enough doctors/nurse/hospitals to put 30 or more millions people into our current system if Obamacare gets funded in 2014, so rationing of medical care will definitely take place. The Obama surrogates are concentrating on their vicious attacks of Paul Ryan so that it will take the spot light away from their own evil plans that will affect not just seniors but everybody. Right now as seniors, your benefits are safe. I can't say in 2014 if the current administration is re-elected.
Seniors, vote with your conscience and do not let the current fear mongers in DC distract you.
(more)Seniors, vote with your conscience and do not let the current fear mongers in DC distract you.
All he has to do is outline the tax increase and repercussions of Obamacare and the financial devastation that will occur to American serniors. Sales tax, RE tax, medicare tax,etc.!
Increase in taxes on capital gains, increase in costs of medications, increase in costs of medical devices, increase in Obama's blame on the "boomers greed", increase in the amount of individuals returning to the workforce after retirement, increase in the number of people aged 50+ who are unemployed.
Decrease in patient care while promoting "end of life" counseling, decrease in doctor's accepting medicare patients, decrease in the ability to retire, decrease of the quality of life and freedoms for their children and grandchildren.
Perhaps you didn't notice the new method of recording your health insurance costs on the 2011 w-2 form. The health tax plan has been in effect for a while. There are bigger changes coming on 1-1-2013.
Summary of tax increases: (ten year projection) *=me and possibly you
* Increase Medicare tax rate by .9% and impose added tax of 3.8% on unearned income for high-income taxpayers: $210.2 billion
* Charge an annual fee on health insurance providers: $60 billion
* Impose a 40% excise tax on health insurance annual premiums in excess of $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for a family: $32 billion
* Impose an annual fee on manufacturers and importers of branded drugs: $27 billion
* Impose a 2.3% excise tax on manufacturers and importers of certain medical devices:$20 billion
* Raise the 7.5% Adjusted Gross Income floor on medical expenses deduction to 10%: $15.2 billion
* Limit annual contributions to flexible spending arrangements in cafeteria plans to $2,500: $13 billion
* All other revenue sources: $14.9 billion
Summary of spending offsets: (ten year projection) *=you
* Reduce funding for Medicare Advantage policies: $132 billion
* Reduce Medicare home health care pa...
Perhaps you didn't notice the new method of recording your health insurance costs on the 2011 w-2 form. The health tax plan has been in effect for a while. There are bigger changes coming on 1-1-2013.
Summary of tax increases: (ten year projection) *=me and possibly you
* Increase Medicare tax rate by .9% and impose added tax of 3.8% on unearned income for high-income taxpayers: $210.2 billion
* Charge an annual fee on health insurance providers: $60 billion
* Impose a 40% excise tax on health insurance annual premiums in excess of $10,200 for an individual or $27,500 for a family: $32 billion
* Impose an annual fee on manufacturers and importers of branded drugs: $27 billion
* Impose a 2.3% excise tax on manufacturers and importers of certain medical devices:$20 billion
* Raise the 7.5% Adjusted Gross Income floor on medical expenses deduction to 10%: $15.2 billion
* Limit annual contributions to flexible spending arrangements in cafeteria plans to $2,500: $13 billion
* All other revenue sources: $14.9 billion
Summary of spending offsets: (ten year projection) *=you
* Reduce funding for Medicare Advantage policies: $132 billion
* Reduce Medicare home health care payments: $40 billion
* Reduce certain Medicare hospital payments: $22 billion
Sorry to use wikipedia as a source, but it is easy to read.
$700 Billion has already been taken from the medicare program. Even the Daily Kos admits it's true, but sady they also refuse to look at the CBO's own number that disprove the savings when the bill started to be enacted and is still being written.
"The claim that OBAMACARE cuts $700 BILLION from Medicare is TRUE and the GOOD NEWS is that in doing so, it INCREASES HEALTHCARE FOR SENIORS and AT THE SAME TIME cuts fraud, WASTE and abuse. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office determined that the Medicare provisions in President Obama's health care law would save $700 BILLION over a decade and EXTENDS THE LIFE OF MEDICARE. Extends it EIGHT YEARS."
Why would you assume the 1% are the only people footing the bill? Who told you that?
http://www.forbes.com/sites/a...
Romney's Repeal and reform would put that $700 Billion back where it belongs, in Medicare!
Only one person has cut Medicare for current recipients - Obama cut 700 billion from current Medicare - no plan, no help, no ideas, no reform. Just cut from the real people who are elderly now.
There is no way for either of these to continue without reform - every politician knows this to be true. Only Ryan has put forth any ideas - he has been attacked for doing so but there remains no other idea or plan from anyone on the left. It appears that only the republicans care about saving these plans and I say again, seniors do not want to be lied to any longer. They want the truth.
Most people are unaware that Medicare has already lost $700 billion dollars under Obama. They have not read the bill.
Far too many people are unaware of the thousands of doctor's and pharmacies who have stopped accepting medicare and medicaid patients thus limiting choice and causing delay of treatment.
Every system that provides for the people is being overwhelmed to the point of default.
Medical Care, SS, SSI, Food stamps, housing, the economy, our energy, our businesses, our mortgages and school loans...
The problem is that Obama and his obots believe he can control it.
He can't.
Just look at the POTUS' campaign site, different pages for each category.
He'll say anything to anyone to win and people are stupid enough to think he can lead us.
To simplify and delfect our nations problems to free birth control has to attrack the most shallow minded woman. aka Sandra Fluke