Sen. Scott Brown gives a thumbs up to abolishing Medicare.
This is a strange one. With most "moderate" Republicans staying completely mute on the Republican budget plan authored by Rep. Paul Ryan, Sen. Scott Brown
is getting all brave and signing up to abolish Medicare.
WASHINGTON — Senator Scott Brown’s support for a GOP budget plan that would transform Medicare into a voucher system promises to become a potent issue in his reelection campaign, say political analysts and advocates for senior citizens.
Brown, in a speech Friday in Newburyport, revealed that he would vote for the House-passed budget plan when it comes up in the Senate. In doing so, the freshman Republican brushed up against the supercharged issue of overhauling Medicare.
“Clearly Senator Brown is taking a position against the senior community here in Massachusetts,’’ asserted Carolyn Villers, executive director of the Massachusetts Senior Action Council, “not only the current seniors who struggle on fixed incomes, but the ability of future seniors and the growing senior community to be able to survive in their retirement.’’
That should be interesting for him next year.