GOP Budget Proposal for 2012 to Gut Medicaid

[upstatecajun]

On Sunday, House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI) previewed his party's 2012 budget proposal due out Tuesday. Needless to say, its target of $4 trillion in deficit reduction over the next decade won't be met by simply letting the Bush tax cuts expire. Instead, Ryan as widely expected will propose the "voucherization" and inevitable rationing of Medicare. But in a less discussed development, Republicans also hope to slash Medicaid funding by $1 trillion over 10 years while sending the remaining dollars as block grants to the states. As it turns out, that gambit would not only gut the 2010 Affordable Care Act law, but guarantee than millions of low income Americans are deprived of health care

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[daa]

1. Its time to storm republican town hall meetings

(if they still have them) and let them know what we think. Maybe it is time we shut down Congress not the government.

[Mnemosyne]

2. K&R for more visibility and disgust. n/t