Paul Ryan's Medicare plan less popular than a hunting trip with Dick Cheney

[marmar]

from Bloomberg:




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By a margin of 57 percent to 34 percent, poll respondents say they would be worse off if Ryan’s plan to convert Medicare to a system of subsidized private health coverage were adopted. Fifty-eight percent of independents, a critical voting bloc in recent elections, say they would be worse off.

That’s likely to encourage Democrats to bank their success in next year’s presidential and congressional races on tying Republicans to the Medicare plan, which was passed by the Republican-controlled House on April 15.

Ryan’s proposal for the federal health-insurance plan that serves seniors was approved with no Democratic support and all but four Republicans voting in favor. The Democratic-controlled Senate rejected it last month.

President Barack Obama’s new health-care law gets a more favorable reaction. The poll of 1,000 adults found that 51 percent of all Americans say that while the law may need modification, it shouldn’t be repealed, and another 11 percent say it should be left alone. That compares with 35 percent who want the new law overturned. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-23/ryan-medicare-plan-would-make-americans-worse-by-57-34-poll-shows.html

[midnight]

1. K&R.... Love the title of this post.... The reason Ryan's

plans are unsettling is because they are based on greed and competition, and not sharing and cooperation...

[Urban Prairie]

2. Methinks that more than just 57% would be "worse off" if Ryan's "Deadicare" plan

of subsidized and profit-ized private healthcare programs were adopted.

Just like Alan Grayson quite accurately described, the Rethug's real healthcare plan is: "Die Quickly", but the only part that he left out was "But not before every asset that the late "insured" had left has been liquidated and collected"