Republicans claim Obama took $716 billion from Medicare to pay for Obamacare. The facts are on our side, but voters who decide based on evidence already know this. To argue that the Ryan budget includes the same savings simply plays into the "both sides do it" meme. To win on this issue we must appeal to their hearts.
Medicare is our baby!
In 1945 President Truman, a democrat, first proposed a system of national health care. It was defeated by a republican congress.
In 1965 Medicare was the first bill put forward by the new democratic congress. It was signed into law over republican opposition by President Johnson, a democrat.
In 2009, President Obama passed the Affordable Care Act, extending the solvency of Medicare and saving it for future generations.
We invented it, we passed it, and we have defended it over and over against republican attacks. Anyone who thinks the republicans want to save Medicare is just nuts!
We are the party of medicare!
We are democrats!