Two days after the election, and already we have the first victim of the incipient presidency of The Stain. Republican Speaker Paul Ryan is proposing to phase out Medicare as part of the promised repeal of Obamacare.
As the article notes, Obamacare has actually improved the financial picture for Medicare, and the two programs are linked. So if the Republicans want to repeal Obamacare --- thus robbing an estimated 20 million people of health insurance --- there's no reason for Medicare to be affected at all. But Ryan wants to push Medicare recipients into private insurance plans anyway.
Of course, president Clinton wouldn't have allowed any of this to happen. But with The Stain in the White House --- well, I don't like the chances of 20 million of our poorest citizens, plus all of our nation's elderly, to get decent health insurance.
Making America Great!
UPDATE: President Clinton would have protected Obamacare, of course, but she also would have added a public option, which likely would have helped to keep insurance rates under control. And far from privatizing Medicare, she actually would have given people ages 55 - 65 the option of buying into Medicare.
But remember, Clinton and The Stain were both equally terrible candidates!
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