Ryan Plan Beats Obamacare By A Knockout

Barack Obama and the Democrats lie about Medicare, Obamacare, and the Ryan Plan.  The Ryan Plan isn't a perfect plan by any means.  But if both were implemented as written, Ryan Plan would be far less injurious to senior citizens than Obamacare or, for that matter, doing nothing.

The truth though hasn’t stopped Democrats from portraying Ryan's Plan as the evil brainchild of Jeffery Dahmer. One ad by the Agenda Project, an allegedly progressive outfit, shows a look-alike of Representative Paul Ryan (R-WS) who authored Ryan Plan, pushing a wheelchair-bound old lady off a cliff. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius, not to be outdone, has opined that senior citizens would “die sooner” under the Ryan Plan.

Barack Obama has said that the Ryan Plan will “end Medicare as we know it.” By that he presumably means that it won’t give senior citizens limitless benefits forever at taxpayers’ expense, no questions asked. But the truth is that there is no scenario that could give seniors that.

Given the fiscal realities of Medicare going broke, if we do nothing, there will come a point when the federal government will have to slash Medicare coverage so severely that, for all but the rich, “dying sooner” will actually seem like the best coverage option. But Obamacare will make matters worse. Much worse.

Official calculations show that Medicare has $34 trillion less than it needs to keep all its promises to senior citizens.   Yet Obamacare will take $500 billion out of Medicare over 10 years to cover 30 million uninsured Americans.

Basic arithmetic suggests that this would hasten the demise of the program. Obama says he’ll squeeze out savings by cutting reimbursement to providers. Obamacare will create something called the Independent Payment Advisory Board, (death panel) composed of 15 experts. Their job will be to hold down spending by identifying reimbursement cuts, and their recommendations will be binding on Congress.

 Medicare’s reimbursement rates will drop below Medicaid’s, which will mean that doctors will turn away senior citizens like they do the poor. In effect, in addition to an early death option, Obamacare offers seniors diminished access to quality care. If this is compassion, give me cruelty.

Ryan's Plan is not perfect, but at least it won’t rob Peter to pay Paul. It will allow all those who are 55 or older right now to stay in the current Medicare program. But come 2022, everyone presently younger would get an average of $15,000 — the amount Medicare would spend per beneficiary — in “premium support” to use toward a health plan of his or her choice. Low-income and sick seniors could get up to another $8,000 or so.

Obamacare is the worst thing that could happen to seniors in their old age; inaction is the next and the Ryan Plan is the least bad. As a senior in the making, if those were my only options, I would ignore Democratic demagoguery and take the Ryan Plan in a heartbeat.

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