GOP budget seen raising health costs for retirees
It’s no secret that the hardened core of the Republican party is fundamentally religious and fifty five plus, so the question post Ryan budget & all the Religious Right social legislation to GOP’ers younger than 54 should be “How does that tea party taste now?” *
Party Identification by Age
Congressional budget experts say future retirees would pay more for health care under a new House Republican budget proposal.
The fiscal blueprint would put people now 54 and younger in a different kind of health care program when they retire. Unlike parents and grandparents in traditional Medicare, they’d get a federal payment to buy private insurance from a choice of government-regulated plans.
* The obverse question for Dem strategists since their hardened base is also mostly 55 plus : will the Ryan budget appeal to the “Bang Bang — I got Mine” liberals in their ranks, and will they have defections?
