Why Ryan Might Be Right

[Listening]

I've noticed that the left can't really get any traction against Ryan.

They've tried to tie him to Akin and their desperation is so obvious that nobody takes them seriously.

 

[PredFan]

Something that is usually ignored by the lefties; this used to be called the Wyden/Ryan plan, after Democrat Ron Wyden, who helped formulate the plan. Won't hear obama mentioning that in the next 4 days or so.

 

[Listening]

A bump for Ryan speaking about the hard choices that must be faced......

And the morons on the left who think that money grows on trees.

 

[edthecynic]

Something that is usually ignored by the lefties; this used to be called the Wyden/Ryan plan, after Democrat Ron Wyden, who helped formulate the plan. Won't hear obama mentioning that in the next 4 days or so.

There is nothing the CON$ervoFascists won't lie about!

Sen. Wyden: Romney’s plan hurts the ‘poorest and most vulnerable seniors’

To listen to the Romney/Ryan ticket, you’d think the official title for their Medicare reform proposal began with the word “bipartisan.” That prefix refers to Sen. Ron Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon who joined Paul Ryan on a proposal to remake Medicare along premium-support lines. Wyden, however, has been angrily rejecting the claim that his plan is similar to Romney’s. “Gov. Romney is talking nonsense,” he said in a statement.
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Ron Wyden: My view is that the policies that were adopted by the Republican House majority and the Romney campaign do not preserve the Medicare guarantee. And that’s what the [Ryan/Wyden] white paper was all about. It was a set of options for improving on the existing Medicare system with public and private choices, beefing up consumer protection, adopting a new way to control costs and put Medicare on a budget so you can protect the guarantee.


Probably the two most significant specific differences between what Governor Romney is talking about and the white paper is, first, that the Romney campaign and the governor would repeal the Affordable Care Act. To lay a foundation for putting together a program to protect the guarantee and protect the budget, you need the changes the Affordable Care Act makes to Medicare, like bundled payments and moving the system towards pay-for-quality. Without it, you can’t move to premium support.


The second difference is that the Romney approach completely pulls the rug out from under the poorest and most vulnerable seniors. In the white paper, protections for so-called dual eligibles, the people in both Medicare and Medicaid, are bulletproof. There’s no way to throw them under the bus. Gov. Romney says he’d block grant the Medicaid program and push those cuts onto the people, which would do enormous harm to those people whose protection was at the center of the white paper.