Does Paul Ryan want to see the Senate Republicans’ Medicare plan?
Paul Ryan might be frustrated that he couldn’t get Donald Trump’s proposed Medicare and Social Security Cuts through Congress, but he should see the plan Senate Republicans proposed.
What did Paul Ryan do for America?
Paul Ryan provided a timely reminder to America of his years-long crusade to gut Social Security and Medicare.
What did Paul Ryan say about Donald Trump?
Paul Ryan complained that Trump didn't act on a top conservative priority. "He and I fought about Medicare and entitlement reform all the time," the former GOP speaker said Wednesday. Trump largely abandoned the typical GOP goal of safety net cuts, but some conservatives still float the idea.
What would happen if Paul Ryan saved Medicare?
Under House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan to “save” Medicare, total costs would rise and enrollees’ share of the total would soar.
Who is determined to kill Medicare?
Paul Ryan is determined to kill Medicare. This time he might succeed. - Los Angeles Times
What is the IPAB in Medicare?
In his Fox News interview, Ryan also took aim at the Independent Payment Advisory Board, or IPAB. This body, created by the ACA, is empowered to recommend changes in Medicare reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals if the program’s projected growth exceeds a target rate. IPAB hasn’t actually been created yet, but that’s not much of a problem because the Medicare growth rate has been well within bounds.
Does Ryan's Medicare plan have alternatives?
The ACA includes all sorts of cost-control provisions aimed at how physicians bill patients and how hospitals manage their treatments, some of which already have yielded evident improvements in how American healthcare is delivered. Ryan’s Medicare plan offers no alternatives to these ideas, other than airy promises to “strengthen … health and retirement security” for seniors and to “foster a more patient-centered system,” a GOP shibboleth with no discernible meaning.
Is Medicare Advantage a benchmark?
But those private insurance plans’ reimbursement rates are benchmarked to traditional Medicare rates, which are set by the government. Ryan has proposed removing the benchmark and allowing Advantage reimbursements to be set by competition. As healthcare commentator Andrew Sprung observes, “that would likely lift the lid on the payments insurers make to healthcare providers —– and then, as costs rise, shift an ever-rising share of them to seniors.”
Is Medicare going broke?
Medicare faces fiscal problems, but it’s not going broke, and according to both the Medicare trustees and the Congressional Budget Office, the Affordable Care Act has in fact alleviated those problems rather than caused them. The trustees reported in 2010 that passage of Obamacare had postponed the projected exhaustion date of the Medicare trust fund by 12 years — to 2029 from 2017. Projections of Medicare spending growth have consistently come down, year after year, at least in part due to changes in the program imposed through Obamacare.
Has Medicare been revised downward?
Projections of Medicare spending have been revised downward by the Congressional Budget Office every year since Obamacare’s passage.
