Not sure this is funny and hope it's a put-on, but it's certainly Bidenesque:
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It has nothing to do with President Obama, I just don't feel privatizing what is now Medicare. Call it Ryancare, Vouchercare, it's just not Medicare.
Why have vouchers when the voucher will not pay the full price of the policy? And if you have a voucher and have a medical condition the insurance company is not likely going to want to insure you. Bad deal all around.
The idea, I suppose, is that introducing competetion into medicare will do what competition always does--reduce costs. But the fundamental problem with healthcare that neither side wants to address is that there is simply no way to provide every American every medical proceedure and treatment they need whenever they need it. The way to make Medicare solvent is very easy. Raise the Medicare withholding tax. Funny how no one mentions doing that.If people use 3 times what they put into Medicare (which they do) then the answer is to triple the Medicare withholding. The trouble is, you cant do that sort of thing when you have an entitlement culture. So what we have is one party pretending the handouts can continue unabated, and the other party trying to find a way to keep the handouts continuing unabated. Sooner or later the music stops, and most people wont have a chair.