11-12-2016, 06:24 PM
Speedy wrote:
Not a problem for swampy, she has single-payer (Medicare). She got hers, to hell with those that don't.
Uh, not so fast. Paul Ryan continues to support abolishing Medicare. Theoretically it would be replaced by a voucher system by which former Medicare recipients could buy health insurance in the private market. Considering the incredibly low overhead that the Medicare system has, this is a prescription for adding twenty percent overhead, all entirely unnecessary, to the cost of senior health coverage. It would also involve seniors having to deal with an irritating bureaucracy, like everybody else who is not on medicare.
Of course if Ryan actually tried to get this through congress, everyone who voted for it would be voted out at the next election.