Paul Ryan is determined to gut Medicare. This time he might succeed

[Benton]

(11-17-2016, 02:27 PM)Yojimbo Wrote: They won't change it for the old people currently on it, so they won't lose that base. They'll implement it for people currently 55 and younger and lie to the rest of their base about how it will reduce government spending.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought you had to be 65 unless you met the few exceptions?

My thought is they'll reduce benefits marginally so that more people have to get gap coverage, and they'll up the years to 68 or 69. Insurance companies get a nice bump for their lobby dollars, and Republicans can claim they "saved" Medicare. Ryan has already been laying that groundwork. Much like how they screwed up the Postal Service by claiming it was going broke and that it needed saving.

I'm still salty about that one as they closed our local distribution center to save about $60,000 a year, but now it takes 6 days to  mail something about 20 miles.