CBO on Ryan Plan: You Won't Even Qualify for Medicare for Two More Years [View All]

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From a Daily Kos Article today:

A Truly Sick Part Of Ryan's Kill Medicare Plan That You May Not Have Heard About
by Gary Norton

"The CBO Analysis of the Ryan, soon to be Republican, plan to end Medicare reveals something that's largely flying under the radar. Seniors won't be able to get his crummy vouchers when they are sixty-five they have to wait two more years, until they are sixty-seven. No Medicare, no voucher, no nothing until you are sixty-seven.Ryan doesn't talk about it and it doesn't appear in the plan published on the Vouchercare website. One has to go to the Congressional Budget Office report to find it. And there you discover that under the Ryan/Republican plan:

'Starting in 2022, the age of eligibility for Medicare would increase by two months per year until it reached 67 in 2033.'

"That means that if you were born in 1966 or later you won't be eligible for diddlysquat until you are sixty-seven. No Medicare, no voucher, no nothing."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/04/15/964975/-A-Truly-Sick-Part-Of-Ryans-Kill-Medicare-Plan-That-You-May-Not-Have-Heard-About