Well that title is a bit of hyperbole -- but not by much.
Here's the real title of this Govt Press Release:
CBO Confirms: GOP Budget Dismantles Medicare, Dramatically Increases Costs for Seniors
democrats.waysandmeans.house.gov
by Lauren Bloomberg or Askia Suruma -- April 6, 2011
WASHINGTON, DC – Results from a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) analysis released yesterday confirm that the House Republican budget would dismantle the Medicare program and wreak havoc on the health and retirement security of America’s seniors and future retirees.
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According to the non-partisan CBO: “A typical beneficiary would spend more for health care under the proposal than under CBO’s long-term scenarios for several reasons. First, private plans would cost more than traditional Medicare because of the net effect of differences in payment rates for providers, administrative costs, and utilization of health care services...
Second, the government’s contribution would grow more slowly than health care costs, leaving more for beneficiaries to pay.” (p.23)
Say Hello to the latest Republican "Pay For" -- it's your Retirement and Health Care
-- So YOU, "Pay For" it!
Continue reading for some CBO Talking Points about the Republican "Fix Medicare Plan" ... The YOU "Pay For" Plan ...
The Republican budget would:
-- Destroy Medicare for Future Retirees and Replace it with an Under-Funded Voucher (p. 8)
-- Increase Medicare Beneficiary Costs By Nearly Three-Fold (p. 21)
-- Move Medicare Beneficiaries Into Private Plans that Are Less Efficient and More Costly than Medicare (p. 21)
-- Drive Medicare Beneficiaries Out of Medicare by Increasing Beneficiary Costs and Discouraging Participation (p. 19)
-- Increase the Rate of Growth in Medicare Beneficiary Costs (p. 21)
-- Remove Medicaid Protections for Vulnerable Seniors Who are Dually Eligible for Medicare and Medicaid (p. 9)
-- Increase the Medicare Eligibility Age (p. 7)
-- Eliminate Health Reform’s New Medicare Drug Coverage while Embracing Health Reform’s Medicare Savings (p. 10)
For summary details on each of those CBO Talking points:
waysandmeans.house.gov
For a copy of the CBO analysis can be found here:
www.cbo.gov -- Ryan_Letter.pdf
Here's a Citizen who's got her 'Hyperbolic Rant' on ...
Good stuff ... Good questions ...
We’ll save Medicare by destroying it?
Letter to the editor:
LasVegasSun -- Monday, May 30, 2011
Sally Williams, Henderson
Let me get this straight: Medicare is going broke, so to fix it, we need to get rid of it. We’ll let private insurance companies take charge of health care. We’ll just ignore the fact that Medicare and Medicaid are going broke because the cost of health care in America is much more than in other industrialized nations.
Oh, but don’t worry seniors, if you’re older than 55, you’re OK — just your children and grandchildren will be affected. I’m sure they won’t even notice. They’ll be too busy paying for currently unpaid-for wars in oil-rich nations. They’ll be too busy trying to save for retirement because pensions are a thing of the past and all of their retirement is invested in the volatile stock market. They’ll be too busy rebuilding collapsed bridges, broken levies, water mains, gas lines and power grids.
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Perhaps 'Hyperbolic Rant' is overstating it?
The Citizen really just has her Indignant Outrage well intact.
Just a Citizen ... who took steps to make her Voice heard.
The time to speak up is now. While Medicare is still intact.
Before the GOP gets their chance to "Fix it" ...