re: #457 Buck

The 2013 budget that Ryan unveiled picks up some important features, including the Medicare option (for james), from the Ryan-Wyden plan. It would create a competitive-bidding process to determine the annual increase in the government voucher, forcing health plans and the Medicare program to compete for patients. The federal subsidy would be based on the second- least-expensive plan in each market. Ryan would means-test Medicare by subsidizing the poor more and the wealthy less. And beginning in 2023, he would increase gradually the Medicare eligibility age until it reaches 67 in 2034.

[Link: www.bloomberg.com…]

That all sounds reasonable until you get to the Ayn Rand part of the plan where large tax cuts go to the wealthy and large cuts in govt. services go to the poor.