House votes to end Medicare, however America Opposes it

House Republicans voted to pass Paul Ryan's disaster budget plan 235-193. Here's some insight about it:

The House has passed a Republican budget blueprint proposing to fundamentally overhaul Medicare for future beneficiaries while combating out-of-control budget deficits. It would impose sharp spending cuts on social safety net programs like food stamps and Medicaid.


The GOP proposal passed 235-193, with every Democrat voting "no." The nonbinding plan lays out a fiscal vision cutting $6.2 trillion over 10 years from the budget submitted by President Barack Obama.

It calls for transforming Medicare from a program in which the government directly pays medical bills into a voucher-like system that subsidizes purchases of private insurance plans. People 55 and over would remain in the current system, but younger workers would receive subsidies that would steadily lose value over time.

Okay, not cute. But the GOP should thought about this more because the America people are not having it. Here are a few polls that support this notion.

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• A CBS News poll last month found slightly more than half (53 percent) of respondents consider it necessary to make changes to Medicare and Social Security, "two of the largest items in the federal budget … in order to significantly reduce the budget deficit." Forty-three percent said such changes are not necessary.
• Last month's NBC/Wall Street Journal poll found a similar division tilting in the opposite direction. Slightly less than half favor either a "complete overhaul" (16 percent) or "major changes" (28 percent) in Medicare, while a narrow majority favors only "minor modifications" (38 percent) or say the program is "pretty much o.k. as it is."
• A USA Today/Gallup poll this week shows less enthusiasm for changes when framed as necessary "to control the cost of the program." Less than a third of adults want the government to "completely overhaul" Medicare (13 percent) or "make major changes to Medicare but not completely overhaul it" (18 percent). Far more say any changes should be "minor" (34 percent) or that the government should "not try to control the costs of Medicare" (27 percent).

This plan is bogus and clearly the beginning of GOP downfall. This will be vetoed by the President, however this moment will be used against the GOP for the 2012 elections.

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