Santorum: Ryan Is ‘Wrong’ Because He Doesn’t Force Current Seniors Into Medicare Privatization Schem

[Donnachaidh]

http://thinkprogress.org/2011/04/15/santorum-ryan-plan-current-seniors/

As Republicans embark on their quest to radically reform social safety net programs like Medicare and Social Security, they’ve gone to great lengths to assure the current generation of seniors they would be exempt from any changes. “e’ve got to protect today’s seniors,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) recently said. The man behind the Republican plan to privatize Medicare, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), in his report outlining his plan wrote that “etting government break its promises to current seniors…is unacceptable.”

But potential GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum veered off that script yesterday on Sean Hannity’s radio show, criticizing Ryan’s plan as “wrong” for not affecting current seniors:

SANTORUM: My big argument with Paul Ryan is that he doesn’t apply a lot of these programs to the current generation of seniors, or those who are at or near retirement. And I think that presupposes that a lot of those current seniors don’t want to participate in the economic solvency of our country. Don’t want to participate in saving our country. I think that’s wrong. I think most seniors –- certainly those that can afford to –- are more than willing to do their fair share to solve their problem.

Listen here:

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[Bandit]

4. I'm on my way out to buy my new cadilac right now..

My $800. a month is such a fortune I think I will buy a lear jet as well..

[Webster Green]

5. Really?

Should I send some of my retirement check to General Electric or Exxon?:wtf:

[dkf]

2. Oh please.

I love it when Repubs try to explain why the insurance companies want to insure 70 and 80 year old seniors who need a whole lot of medical care. Tweety asked why insurers want the sickest age groups in their pools and Marcia Blackburn stammered through the whole thing.

Republicans are in lala land. I can't take this proposal seriously

[ChairmanAgnostic]

9. But it is our job to let elders know about this, and

how the GOP is throwing them to the side of the road in the middle of a cold winter's night.

We need a gray revolution, and we need their help. and votes.

[dkf]

11. Seniors are crazy too for supporting Medicare instead of single payer.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Here, Rick. It's a piece of blank paper. Have all those seniors who want to participate in the

'economic solvency of our country' sign up.

P.S. I already do participate. I just paid the US government over $15K in my fair share of taxes. You should try it too, Rick.

[EC]

6. Sounds like they are saying that putting tomorrows

seniors at risk doesn't matter...


" they’ve gone to great lengths to assure the current generation of seniors they would be exempt from any changes. “e’ve got to protect today’s seniors,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-VA) recently said. The man behind the Republican plan to privatize Medicare, Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), in his report outlining his plan wrote that “etting government break its promises to current seniors…is unacceptable.”

In those statements they acknowledge that Seniors NEED protection in their old age.

They seem to think that the promises made to the younger people working now can be broken and that they don't need protecting. What do they think that in the future when there is no water, food, energy, etc. ( these things will be really, really expensive) that the seniors then will be hunky- dory, no problems?


I really, really believe my daughter's (she's 40 now)future will be harder and poorer in her old age no matter how much she would be able to save financially now or that I could leave her.

[bullwinkle428]

7. So this is the Repukes' strategy to make Ryan look like the sane one?

:rofl:

[denverbill]

8. I agree. Here's what we need to do:

Offer insurance companies exactly what it costs to administer patients in Medicare. Let them offer private plans with whatever exclusions/deductibles/limits/doctor restrictions they want with no government meddling. Let teabaggers and their libertarian kindred spirits sign up and get off 'government' healthcare. Then don't let any of them back onto Medicare unless they renounce teabaggery.

[Keith Bee]

10. Even worse.....

...Ryan's plan doesn't even mention the necessity of making 5-year-olds get jobs to pay for their education. The twelve-year free ride has to end for America to survive, dammit!