Paul Ryan says Obamacare caused Medicare to go broke faster. Reality is exactly the opposite.

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Paul Ryan says Obamacare caused Medicare to go broke faster. Reality is exactly the opposite. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/11/paul-ryan-says-medicare-privatization-is-on.html …

Paul Ryan Says Medicare Privatization Is On
By Jonathan Chait

Wherever you’re hiding, Medicare, Paul Ryan will find you.Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

During the campaign, coverage of the issues was blotted out by coverage of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s broad suite of sociopathic tendencies. And of the issues that did receive any attention, a conspicuously missing one was Paul Ryan’s plan to push Medicare beneficiaries into private health insurance. Reporters just assumed that, since Trump never talked about it, it won’t happen. But Paul Ryan still wants it to happen. And in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier, Ryan said Medicare privatization is on.

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Ryan tells Baier, “Because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke.” This is false. In fact, it’s the complete opposite of the truth. The Medicare trust fund has been extended 11 years as a result of the passage of Obamacare, whose cost reforms have helped bring health care inflation to historic lows. It is also untrue that repealing Obamacare requires changing traditional Medicare. But Ryan clearly believes he needs to make this claim in order to sell his plan, or probably even to convince fellow Republicans to support it.



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[WhiteTara]

1. Here's his contact info fro

both Wisconsin and DC. Call him on his lie and tell we won't stand for privatization!

https://paulryan.house.gov/contact/

[lunasun]

2. Maybe pence and Ryan can have a contest on who lies the most. We get to watch it on the tee vee

[duffyduff]

3. Ryan is an addle-brained Ayn Randite

His shit trial balloon on Medicare should and most probably will be shot down in short order.

It would literally end the Republican Party.