re: #33 Rightwingconspirator

Yet when one says “end medicare” that can easily (and as was implied) to be taken as the well, the true end of the program. Finished, no more help, no more money no more access to care apart from out of pocket like any uninsured person.

I appreciate most would say that the Ryan plan circa 2022 is the functional end of medicare, but one would have to know if the subsidies would be adequate to the task, or not. I’m not at all sure how that will play out so far up the road.

And really, those political commercial images showing folks way over 55 now really were over the top. The implication was that 2022 is 2012.

Changing Medicare to a voucher based plan would go over as well as changing the fire fighters to a voucher based service.

Its in the public interest that we all be relatively healthy and go to the doctors relatively frequently so as to help aovid spreading diseases and allow us to be productive members of society… people’s health shouldn’t be left to the free market.

Also

A: Aren’t the subidies the Ryan plan is going to give out going to increase based on the inflation rate?

And

B: Hasn’t the cost of healthcare had a tendency to increase faster than the inflation rate?

If I’m wrong on either of the above points please let me know because otherwise I don’t see how the Ryan version of Medicare can possibly avoid becomming more and more useless with every passing year.