On August 13 , KTVZ asked viewers
”What do you think about Mitt Romney’s choice of Paul Ryan as running mate”?
49 percent responded: “like it”
17 percent responded: “don’t like it” and
35 percent responded: “don’t really care.”
To the 35 percent who “don’t really care,” I hope that this condensed summary of one of the important issues, Medicare reform, that Republican VP candidate, Paul Ryan has addressed will capture your interest.
1. Fundamental goal of the Ryan’s Medicare proposal::
“not to retreat from the commitments made over the past eight decades, but to fulfill them.” In a word, to preserve retirement security and the social safety net.
2. The concept of individual choice vs. government control is the heart of the solution to provide quality healthcare at competitive affordable cost. While government may be good at collecting taxes, fighting wars and supporting public works, government management can never match the levels of self-interest and motivation that individuals and entrepreneurs pay to their own affairs and businesses. Individual involvement results in more favorable investment decisions, cost control and quality outcome. Because government operates at a high level, it is forced to make universal decisions that frequently do not meet individual needs. In the “Affordable Care Act” (Obamacare) an unelected, and unaccountable panel of 15 men and women will control health care spending by decreeing how medicine should be practiced and how doctors and hospitals are organized. Who will do a better job managing your healthcare? The government or you and your doctor?
3. Healthcare costs in the government-managed Medicare system is out of control, with a $38 trillion deficit, and will be bankrupt in the near future. Under Medicare, there are few incentives to deliver quality care at reduced costs or develop alternative solutions. The best and worst health care providers are paid equally regardless of quality of service.
4. The Ryan Medicare proposal calls for “defined contribution” or “premium support”. Medicare participants would receive aid to buy their own insurance, ensuring competition amongst many insurers and health care providers and near elimination of the massive government “defined benefits” system that administers claims. This concept is similar to the system presently used by our members of Congress.
5. The Ryan program would be phased in; there would be no change in benefits to retirees or people aged 55 or older.
6. Premium levels would be initially set to equal the average Medicare spending per person, then set regionally in a reverse auction to the second lowest bid. Participants would pick their own program and pocket or pay the difference. Unlike the proposed Obama insurance exchange with many controls, there will be more competition and choice of insurers.
7. Under premium support, networks of providers would be competing for consumers and become more efficient over time, instead of billing taxpayers for their current negative rate of productivity.
For the 35 percent who “don’t really care,” I hope that this simple, condensed summary of this important issue will motivate you. Don’t be the victim of your own apathy.
Extensively quoted :
Joseph Rago: “The Forgotten History of Ryan’s Medicare Reform” August 13, 2012, Wall Street Journal.
David Hogberg: “GOP’s Ryan Dissects ObamaCare, Lays Out ‘Roadmap’ To Health” March 12 2012. Investor’s Business Daily.
David C. White, Bend
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They probably didn’t care because they have no intention of voting for Romney anyway.
Obomination is an insolent, militant, incompetent, narcissistic, America-hating slug. He is union slave who has never worked a day in his life, yet he blames the failures of those who chose their own path on the successes of those who earned their way through hard work and commitment to family, community, and country.
Obomination is an opportunistic, community agitator and a dishonest predator who is constantly on the prowl for a situation or occurrence that he can exploit to benefit his agenda, no matter how it affects the future of the nation. He hates American culture, American values, and American people. He hates the Constitution of the United States and he abhors the Declaration of Independence.
Obomination is a proponent of separatist, multiculturalism and its inherent disruption of progress toward a unified America and the common good of all citizens. He is for open borders and closed minds. He has no regard for the rule of law or for the fair and impartial, but critical judgment of criminals and terrorists.
Obomination is for INSTANT EQUALITY and he is against EQUAL OPPORTUNITY.
Obomination is a Godless worm who is in favor of continual government intervention so as to alter the courses and lives of those who are the least fit to survive and prosper.
Obomination is for Affirmative Action, political correctness, welfare, never-ending unemployment benefits, labor union control, globalism, wealth redistribution, restriction of free speech and movement, energy-based strangulation of business and prosperity, and punishment through taxation.
Obomination has a progressive, leftist, talking-point excuse for each and every one of his patriotic, social, intellectual, and contributory shortcomings, of which there are many.
Obomination is pathetic.
Obomination is a Democrat.
He is Barack Obama.
Most disconcerting of all; he is our President.
If you care about the future of this great nation, set aside an hour or two on Tuesday, November 6, 2012, and cast a decisive vote against Barack Obama.
God bless America. America, bless God.
So if I catch your drift here, you represent the kind of person who aligns himself with the Romney camp ? Well that makes my choice easy : Gobama !
“forhevansake” Why would you not give me THE AUTHOR credit.. Since it was me that wrote your “Comment”
I wrote this for “Impeach Obama Campaign”
Please remove this or at least give me.. The “Author” credit
Thank you
Thomas Paine
http://www.impeachobamacampaign.com/president-obama-detailed/ Website