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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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Paul Ryan video illustrates Medicare’s problems & path to solution
Rep. Paul Ryan narrates a good video using “sticky” visuals about how Medicare is a financial train wreck, and how converting it to a voucher program for (not-so-private) insurance plans would be an improvement. Continue reading
The case for replacing Medicare with vouchers for commercial insurance
This Center for Freedom and Prosperity Foundation video explains how a “premium-support” plan would solve Medicare’s fiscal crisis and improve the overall healthcare system. This voucher-based system also would protect seniors from bureaucratic rationing. Continue reading
Posted in Medicaid/Medicare/SCHIP, PPC
Tagged death panels, Medicare, Paul Ryan, rationing health care United States
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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