Jeb Bush Says We Should ‘Phase Out’ Medicare
Matthew Yglesias, Vox: Jeb Bush Says We Should ‘Phase Out’ Medicare - Vox
For years now, Republicans in Congress have been unified around a plan to promise continued Medicare benefits to everyone over the age of 55 while phasing out the program for everyone else. This is the famous — or perhaps infamous — Paul Ryan plan for Medicare. But denying that this is what their plan amounts to has been an important part of the political strategy for getting it done. Except Jeb Bush messed up, and in a talk at an Americans for Prosperity event Wednesday night he said that America needs to “phase out” Medicare.
His argument is that once Medicare is phased out, the GOP can offer the 54-and-under set “something,” because the alternative will be to get “nothing.”
