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Originally Posted by janmcn
Both Speaker Gingrich and Gov Romney pledge to repeal The Affordable Care Act, and both support the Paul Ryan plan to end medicare as we know it and replace it with a voucher system. Without The Affordable Care Act, insurance companies can once again discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions. Good luck to the 80 year old with pre-existing conditions shopping for health insurance on the open market with their voucher. I don't know how anyone on or near medicare could support either one of these candidates.
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The statement in bold is SCARE TACTIC as usual from the Statists. Scare tactics are irresponsible in their twisting and omission of facts.
With a little bit of READING, one can learn a lot, as in this analysis of the Congressional Budget Office, particularly the "Key Features of the Proposal" section beginning on Page 7:
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" * People who turn 65 in 2022 or later years and Disability Insurance beneficiaries who become eligible for Medicare in 2022 or later would not enroll in the current Medicare program but instead would be entitled to a premium support payment to help them purchase private health insurance.
* Beneficiaries of the premium support payments would choose among competing private insurance plans operating in a newly established Medicare exchange. Those plans would have to comply with a standard for benefits set by the Office of Personnel Management. Plans would have to issue insurance to all people eligible for Medicare who applied and would have to charge the same premiums for all enrollees of the same age....."
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http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/121xx/doc...yan_Letter.pdf