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By Ian Millhiser
In April of 2011, after Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan had been House Budget Chair for only a few months, he convinced nearly the entire House GOP caucus to vote for a laissez-faire budget resolution that would slash education, raise taxes on the middle class, and destroy Medicaids promise to provide health care to the most vulnerable Americans. Like his running mate Mitt Romneys tax plan, the Ryan Plan also combined austerity for the poor and the middle class with large tax cuts for the rich.
The Ryan Plan that passed the House in 2011 is most famous, however, for its multiple step plan to phase out Medicare. Let us say that again so we are perfectly clear about what the Ryan Plan does to Medicare. It does not just end Medicare as we know it and it certainly does not reform Medicare. The Ryan Plan simply ends Medicare, although it admittedly takes some time for it to achieve this goal.
More w/Chart (worth reading): Paul Ryan's Original Medicare Plan Ends Medicare, Period | ThinkProgress
The original plan is off the table.
If the GOP wins the presidency and the Senate, it will be right back on the table. That's what Americans need to know;
they need to know that the Republicans will say anything to get elected, but we already know what they really want, based on how they voted on the original Medicare-killing bill,
and based on the fact that Romney has said in the past that he would have signed it.