Paul Ryan’s New Medicare Visualization Video: Bureaucrats vs Free Market
Paul Ryan is grasping at straws trying to find a way to get people to go along with his abolishment of the Medicare status quo. He argues that both sides agree that Medicare as it stands, is unsustainable, something I think both sides agree on. But his best argument for privatizing one the things people really, really like and are ready to rebuke politicians for messing with, is a conservative argument that dates back hundreds of years: Obama’s plan will implement a system of bureaucrats who will decide where you can spend your Medicare benefits from all the way in Washington DC who don’t even know or care about you out in your small little prairie town.
This board will review providers and determine if, based on cost and care quality, should qualify to receive Medicare subsidies. This would dramatically reduce waste, or force providers to reform practices in order to serve a greater patient base. Ryan insists that by making Medicare a free market solution, it will force providers to improve care and reduce costs out of the goodness of their hearts. I don’t know about any of you, who already have private insurance, but that doesn’t seem to be the case now. Anyway, you can see his visual representation of this below.