Top Obama Advisers Proposed Voucherizing Medicare Way Back in…2010?
Avik Roy: “It’s time for President Obama to own up. Either the Romney-Ryan plan is sound, or Obama’s campaign is being dishonest.” Continue reading
Romney and Obama: Both Wrong on Medicare
With both campaigns peddling the idea that any cuts to Medicare, now or in the future, are automatically a bad thing, we run the risk of poisoning the well for any future reform of the system. Continue reading
Ten Myths in the Medicare Ad Wars
Instead of a “serious national discussion about the future of Medicare. What we are getting instead is something akin to school yard taunts.” Get the facts from health policy expert John C. Goodman Continue reading
Ryan Medicare drama more hype than reality
The White House and Ryan Medicare budgets don’t differ that much. What does differ is their approach. The president’s approach is inflexible. Ryan’s approach has the advantage of making the cuts less painful by allowing market-based reforms instead of suppressing provider fees. Continue reading
PolitiFact’s “lie of the year” once again not a lie
PolitiFact’s past three Lies of the Year have been about health care. Not one of them was a lie. … Moreover, even if these three statements were false, the speakers believed them to be true. Therefore, they cannot be lies. Every single Lie of the Year award has gotten that basic fact wrong. Continue reading
Paul Ryan video illustrates Medicare’s problems & path to solution
Rep. Paul Ryan narrates a good video using “sticky” visuals about how Medicare is a financial train wreck, and how converting it to a voucher program for (not-so-private) insurance plans would be an improvement.
The case for replacing Medicare with vouchers for commercial insurance
This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains how a “premium-support” plan would solve Medicare’s fiscal crisis and improve the overall healthcare system. This voucher-based system also would protect seniors from bureaucratic rationing.
Obamacare’s Cruel and Inhumane Inflation-Indexed Vouchers
For some prominent pundits, tax-funded vouchers for “private” insurance are OK when a Democrat proposes it, but not OK when a Republican does.
Paul Ryan’s Budget: A Huge Opportunity to Improve Health Care
Rep. Paul Ryan’s “budget blueprint that tackles the three big health care challenges facing the federal budget — ObamaCare, Medicare and Medicaid – with a strategy of repeal, vouchers and block grants. Done properly, those steps would simultaneously improve health care and help balance the budget within a decade.”
