re: #6 Rightwingconspirator

Yea you bolded the wrong part:

First the truth: The budget plan that Republicans pushed through the House in 2011 would have radically changed Medicare in the future — for workers now under age 55. Starting in the year 2022, the GOP plan called for new Medicare beneficiaries to purchase private insurance with the help of federal subsidies.

But the plan would have continued the present Medicare system indefinitely for those now getting benefits, and also for all those who reach age 65 during the next decade.

Radically changing one program into another and calling it the same name doesn’t change the fact that you still ended the first one.

How the fuck do you use the world “indefinitely” to describe something which only applies to people who are now covered and won’t be around in 20 years. That’s called “grandfathering” and it still doesn’t change the fact that the original program will be GONE and replaced by one with a new name.

The statement being reviewed is that Republicans voted to end Medicare and they did. All the other crap is there to justify their bullshit decision.