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GOP plans $1 trillion Medicaid cut

whysoserious said:
This is basically cutting health care for our poor, elderly. I see this backfiring, but whatever. It doesn't really matter, because it's not really a cut. Health care is inelastic so the money will come from some where.
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well you are right that it's not a cut. it's extending to each retiring American senior (starting in 2022) the ability to have the same health insurance that members of congress get.
 
Excerpted from “Study: Seniors' health costs would soar under GOP plan; Seniors and people with disabilities would pay much more for health care under a new Republican plan aimed at curbing the nation's growing debt, a Congressional Budget Office analysis shows.” By Julie Appleby, Mary Agnes Carey and Laurie Mcginley, Kaiser Health News, The Seattle Times, Originally published April 6, 2011 at 9:37 PM | Page modified April 6, 2011 at 9:37 PM
[SIZE="+2"]S[/SIZE]eniors and people with disabilities would pay much more for health care under a new Republican plan aimed at curbing the nation's growing debt, a Congressional Budget Office analysis shows. …

The GOP budget proposal, introduced Tuesday by House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, also would raise the eligibility age for subsidized health care and repeal big chunks of the health-care law that Congress approved last year. …
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This won't be your daddy's Medicare … not anymore …
 
Chappy said:
This won't be your daddy's Medicare … not anymore …
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it's not going to be my daddy's Medicare anyway. the question is whether or not there is to be a Medicare at all. by slowing the growth of it's costs now, we can ensure that it will exist in the future. allowed to grow unchecked, it will instead crash the system on which it is dependent.
 
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