Now that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has selected Paul Ryan as his vice presidential nominee, the Democratic party needs to get out in front of the Republican message on healthcare reform by not only embracing their solution but actively proposing legislation to implement it immediately in small scale demonstrations so that the American people can see between now and a looming November election just how smoothly everything goes when both sides pull together on this issue.
Beginning Monday call on Congressional Democrats to introduce legislation ending government run healthcare for members of the Senate and House of Representatives. The government run healthcare program which Paul Ryan has relied on for more than 20 years must end. It must be replaced by a voucher program where members of congress can purchase their healthcare on the open market. If things must change for the American people, let those who lead, do so by example. Force those who would “reform Medicare as we know it” to save America demonstrate to us all their commitment to heal care vouchers as the best solution by adopting it for their own government run healthcare program.
In addition to adopting a voucher system for themselves to reap the obvious benefits of the system, Democrats must also call on all of America to get behind the voucher system for all Medicare recipients. The Paul Ryan plan only offered the amazing benefits of the voucher system to future generations of Medicare recipients. Why do Paul Ryan and the Republican Party hate our current Medicare recipients? This voucher system is supposed to be better for America, let all Americans reap this benefit. I understand that current recipients won’t have paid into the voucher system, but let’s not use that as a reason to deny them the opportunity to evaluate multiple plans with complex contracts and language written to maximize the profits of insurance companies? No!
Everyone must be able to participate in this new system. Democrats must stand behind the idea that if the Paul Ryan Greatest Healthcare Solution ever is to be the new gold standard that all Medicare recipients must be afforded the benefits it brings. It’s unfair for only future generations to benefit when so many current recipients will be voting for Romney and Ryan this fall. Let’s put together sample plans and ask current recipients to choose which plan they would like and determine how they will be funding any cost gap from the proposed Republican plans.
Congress: End Your Own Government Run Healthcare Today