As if trying to take healthcare away from 24 million Americans isn’t
enough for one week, Speaker Paul Ryan can’t resist talking about
“reforming” Social Security and Medicare.
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Medicare advocates celebrated Ryan’s announcement, noting that he will leave Congress without accomplishing his lifelong goal of reforming Medicare.
“House Speaker Paul Ryan’s retirement from Congress lifts a very dark cloud that has hung over older Americans for nearly two decades,” Max Richtman, president and CEO of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare said in a statement.
“During that time, Speaker Ryan has been the Privatizer-in-Chief on Capitol Hill – advocating to turn Medicare into a voucher program and to gamble retirees’ Social Security benefits on the whims of Wall Street.”
via The Hill.
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Farewell to Paul Ryan and His Insidious
“Entitlement Reforms.”
- As America’s Privatizer-in-Chief, he spearheaded attempts to turn Medicare into a voucher program and to gamble retirees’ Social Security benefits on the whims of Wall Street.
- He passed legislation in the House to cut more than $1 trillion from Medicaid by imposing per capita caps and turning it into a block grant program.
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Speaker Paul Ryan is at it again – threatening to cut Social Security and Medicare. But this time, Republicans have the power to do it.
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Over the years, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has insisted on overhauling the benefit programs, proposing a voucher-like system for Medicare and calling for partially privatizing Social Security.
Harwood: Retirement age?
Stivers: We need to come together. I think we need to say, “You give a little, we give a little,” and figure out how to sustain Medicare and Social Security into the future. The other thing on Medicare is we have to bend the cost curve on health care.
via CNBC.
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We have been keeping track of Members of Congress’ statements on wanting to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care in 2018.
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With a new House Speaker, Rep. Paul Ryan, now in charge (and his views on slashing Social Security and turning Medicare into CouponCare are well known) we’ll likely face this battle again as soon as next month in the Transportation bill debate as conservatives hope to use benefit cuts to pay for highways.
via Entitled to Know.
Fresh off passing massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, Trump and congressional Republicans want to use the deficit they’ve created to justify huge cuts to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
As House Speaker Paul Ryan says “We’re going to have to get … at entitlement reform, which is how you tackle the debt and the deficit.”
Don’t let them get away with it.
Social Security and Medicare are critical safety-nets for working and middle-class families.
via Chicago Sun-Times.
We are keeping track of Members of Congress who voice their plans to target earned benefits and health care in 2018.
You can view the full project by clicking here.
Paul Ryan has had a tough couple of months.
The House GOP’s response to Puerto Rico’s debt crisis is stuck, with a big May 1 deadline looming. The leadership’s 2017 budget plan is stalled. And legislation to overhaul the Federal Aviation Administration hasn’t left the runway.
via POLITICO.
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- GOP Plans for Medicare? All Slash No Strengthen.
- The House budget
would cut Social Security and Medicare by $463 billion over 10 years,
while cutting Medicaid and other health programs by $1.028 trillion, not
including the Affordable Care Act. The GOP budget protects the
wealthiest Americans and big corporations from any tax increases while
imposing massive spending cuts on average Americans and their families.
Paul Ryan already eyeballing social safety net cuts
Speaker Paul Ryan is already talking about cutting entitlements such as Medicare, even before Congress finishes passing a tax plan.
Watch the full segment here via MSNBC.
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After Passing Senate Tax Bill, GOP to Target Seniors’ Earned Benefits.
- But the biggest poison pill for the elderly in this legislation is the existential threat it poses to Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
Giddy from his recent health care win, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he looks forward to tackling an overhaul of Medicare, which would leave many seniors without coverage or with higher premiums. On Friday, Speaker Ryan told the conservative radio host, Vicki McKenna, that he would like to see a plan for overhauling Medicare this year. He said the plan is part of an “ongoing conversation” with the Trump administration.
via Think Progress.
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- Paul Ryan’s Medicare Privatization Scheme Edging Closer to Reality.
- Paul Ryan’s dystopian dream of privatizing Medicare may soon come true. At least he seems to think so. In an interview with right-wing Wisconsin radio host Vicki McKenna, the House Speaker said that Medicare “reform” is coming to the Capitol this Spring. “I’m pretty sure the budget committee in the House will pass that on in the House Republican budget,” Ryan said.
Investment in home and community-based care is popular and must be included in #infrastructure. Now it’s up to Congress to get it done. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/elder-care-congress.html #HCBS @nytimes