I’m sure we were all quick to recognize that as soon as Mitt Romney announced Congressman Paul Ryan as his vice presidential running mate, the slimy Democrats would be very quick to once again set upon expending every effort to throw their thoroughly debunked and discredited MediScare campaign into even higher gear. That odd assortment of misfits referred to as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) actually went so far as to call Ryan “the architect of the Republican plan to kill Medicare” in a fundraising message sent out by DCCC Executive Director Robby ‘The Kook’ Mook. An obvious false charge that even the left-leaning Politifact called the 2011 “lie of the year.”
But hey, that should not come a big surprise to anyone, and our sleazy band of Democrats didn’t stop there. Barry “Almighty” spokesman Jim Messina attempted to perpetuate the notion that Ryan’s plan “would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors.” But this cockamamie propaganda is no more true than the DCCC’s MediScare claim. As explained by Avik Roy, the Wyden-Ryan plan would only apply to Americans ‘younger than 55 years of age’, and gives those younger individuals the option of remaining in the traditional Medicare program, or choosing a comparable private-sector insurance plan. Sound’s like a great idea to me!
And then over on the Communist News Network’s (CNN) ratings juggernaut, “State Of The Union,” we were to hear Barry Advisor David ‘My Mom Was A Communist’ Axelrod say that the bipartisan plan authored by Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden and Republican Rep. Paul Ryan for reforming Medicare would put Medicare into a death spiral. Here is a transcript of the exchange between Crowley and ‘Douche Bag’ Axelrod:
CROWLEY: “You describe him as extreme, so I want to take you back to a December 15th, Wall Street Journal op-ed which the Congressman wrote along with Senator Ron Wyden, who is seen as a member of your party, and seen certainly as a moderate to liberal Democrat, and the two of them together came up with a plan to help save Medicare, and they wrote: ‘our plan would strengthen traditional Medicare by permanently maintaining it as a guaranteed and viable option for all of the nation’s retirees.’ So this extreme plan has been signed on to and one of the authors of it is a member of your own party, so why is that extreme?”
AXELROD: “Well, I just disagree with Senator Wyden on this, and Congressman Ryan and so have most of the experts who have looked at this and who’ve said that the way that the thing is constructed, that Medicare would be in a death spiral under this plan, and that ultimately it would raise costs on seniors by thousands of dollars.”
In what I guess is an effort to head off such claims, even though they are completely bogus, from the Democrats, Romney promised to “preserve and protect Medicare and Social Security” during his speech announcing Ryan as his vice presidential running mate. Look, despite what Barry and the Democrats may claim, both ‘ObamaCare’ and Ryan’s plan do make changes to Medicare. But there is a huge difference in how those ‘changes’ are administered. Barry’s changes, as we should all know by now, come about through the implementation of ObamaCare and occur courtesy of government rationing. Those changes that come about under the Ryan plan do so because of the direction taken toward privatization.
The ObamaCare law creates a new panel, something fondly referred to as the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which is composed of 15 unelected government bureaucrats. They will be charged with ‘rationing’ care to seniors, primarily by underpaying doctors and hospitals. It’s really no secret to anyone who’s been paying any attention that Barry has cut Medicare more than Romney and Ryan ever would. And according to the most recent estimates from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), ObamaCare will reduce Medicare spending by more than $700 billion between 2013 and 2022, relative to prior law. These cuts directly affect ‘current’ retirees. By contrast, both the Romney and Wyden-Ryan plans only affect retirees ‘younger than 55’.
It’s obvious that the approach being advocated by Ryan and Romney gives seniors much more control over their own health dollars, allowing them to choose the plan that provides the best value for their money. A campaign spokesman has said: “The Romney campaign relishes this fight. There is only one person in this race who has already cut Medicare for seniors, and that is President Obama. ObamaCare cut Medicare for America’s seniors by $700 billion. Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan have a bipartisan plan to strengthen Medicare for today and tomorrow’s seniors. Obama’s campaign has accused Mitt Romney of committing crimes and killing people, and now they have turned their smear campaign to Paul Ryan. They have lost all credibility.”
Personally, I would have thought that after the Obamacrats passed, and I use that term rather loosely, the ever unpopular ObamaCare, which actually robs Medicare of more than $716 billion to fund ObamaCare, they wouldn’t be too eager to focus on that $700 billion in Medicare cuts. But I guess I was wrong, which proves why I’m not on television talking about such things. But ‘On Face the Nation’ just yesterday morning we saw a Barry staffer and bimbo, Stephanie Cutter, calling Barry’s $700 million in Medicare cuts stolen from taxpayers to fund ObamaCare an “achievement.” An achievement? Ok, so will the American people prove themselves to be stupid enough to believe any of this tripe? Only time will tell.
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