… That greater burden would require them to reduce their use of health care services, spend less on other goods and services, or save more in advance of retirement than they would under current law.” “Under the proposal, the gradually increasing number of Medicare beneficiaries participating in the new premium support program would bear a much larger share of their health care costs than they would under the traditional program. This would significantly impact those 54 and younger. Then, the CBO writes: “The premium support payments would go directly from the government to the plans that people selected.” Those who are 65 by 2022, would select private insurance from an exchange system – something similar to that of the health-care overhaul passed last year. For federal workers, Medicare Advantage and plenty of others work like this. That's how it works for a lot of insurance arrangements. “You select the plan that you want,” he said. Lost in the back and forth of the exchange with Ryan was that in the same answer, he went on to outline just how much Medicare would change – albeit not explicitly. In other words, traditional Medicare would, in fact, be phased out for those 54 and younger. “People who turn 65 in 2022 or later years and Disability Insurance beneficiaries who become eligible for Medicare in 2022 or later would not enroll in the current Medicare program but instead would be entitled to a premium support payment to help them purchase private health insurance.” When asked by one of the Morning Joe panelists, “For people who are 54 years of age or younger, when they're 70 years of age, are they dealing and negotiating with an insurance company?”īut as the Congressional Budget Office wrote in its analysis of Ryan’s plan: The more important question, however, is in what form?
It’s true that anyone 55 and older would not be affected under Ryan’s plan, so a video depicting someone currently older than 55 being thrown off a cliff is misleading.īut Ryan claimed that Medicare would continue to exist.
“Once people learn the facts, we are fine,” he claimed. He argued, as President Obama did during the health-care debate, that the biggest hurdle is that this is a complicated issue that is difficult to explain. “You should have seen how many takes it took to make that work,” he joked. He also acknowledged on Morning Joe, “People in the Republican Party are nervous because of these kinds of ads,” referring to a Web video depicting him throwing an elderly woman in a wheelchair off a cliff. When asked to clarify if he believed the “demagoguing” of Medicare played a role, Ryan said, “That’s a big part of it.” He added, that Democrats are “scaring seniors that their current benefits are going to be affected.” “The president and his party have decided to demagogue” the issue, the Wisconsin Republican said, calling the campaign against his budget plan “Mediscare.”
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