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PolitiFact’s “lie of the year” once again not a lie
PolitiFact’s past three Lies of the Year have been about health care. Not one of them was a lie. … Moreover, even if these three statements were false, the speakers believed them to be true. Therefore, they cannot be lies. Every single Lie of the Year award has gotten that basic fact wrong. Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, myths & fallacies
Tagged health insurance vouchers, Medicare, Paul Ryan
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The left segregates the poor into inferior socialist programs while others enjoy semi-free markets
The left’s entire approach to poverty is to segregate the poor into inferior public provision, while the rest of society enjoys the benefits of quasi-private provision. It’s as though the left wing in American politics wants socialism for the poor and capitalism for everyone else. Continue reading
If Social Security were run like Medicare
Those who oppose changing Medicare into a voucher program for “private” insurance should support running Social Security like today’s Medicare: authorities would assign housing to seniors and “pick up government-approved groceries for little or no money.” Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged health insurance vouchers, Medicare, persuasion, Social Security
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Obamacare’s Cruel and Inhumane Inflation-Indexed Vouchers
For some prominent pundits, tax-funded vouchers for “private” insurance are OK when a Democrat proposes it, but not OK when a Republican does. Continue reading
Posted in Policy - National, PPC
Tagged health insurance exchanges, health insurance vouchers, Medicare, Paul Ryan
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Paul Ryan’s Budget: A Huge Opportunity to Improve Health Care
Rep. Paul Ryan’s “budget blueprint that tackles the three big health care challenges facing the federal budget — ObamaCare, Medicare and Medicaid – with a strategy of repeal, vouchers and block grants. Done properly, those steps would simultaneously improve health care and help balance the budget within a decade.” Continue reading
How Medicare vouchers could bypass health care rationing
The debate over which medical treatments Medicare would cover would vanish if instead of running a monopolistic health plan for seniors, government subsidized seniors’ purchase of the insurance plan of their choice. Continue reading
Medicare Advantage exposes Medicare’s hidden tax
Says John Graham at the Pacific Research Institute in a new study: Medicare Advantage … allows consumers to get their benefits through private insurance plans. Under the Senate Health Care bill, the Medicare Advantage program, would be cut by about … Continue reading
Posted in myths & fallacies
Tagged choice, health insurance vouchers, HR 3590, Medicare Advantage, uninsured cost-shift
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