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Dec 09, 2017 · Ryan announced Wednesday that in 2018 the Republicans will be ready to put Medicare on the chopping block to pay for tax cuts. And those tax cuts are aimed at corporations and the rich – not the...
What is Ryan's plan for health insurance?
(If the states don’t build them, the feds will set them up.) Ryan’s plan would get rid of the insurance exchanges and the subsidies that would help people shop in them.
Will seniors get out of luck with Ryan's plan?
Obama and the Democrats have suggested that seniors would be out of luck under the Ryan plan if they get sick. But the plan does deal with that scenario. The new Medicare payments “would be adjusted so that the sick would receive higher payments if their conditions worsened,” according to a House report on the latest version of the plan. It doesn’t give details on how that would work — but the provision is there.
Does Ryan's plan cover Medicare?
The latest Ryan plan says the new private health plans would have to cover “the actuarial equivalent” of Medicare benefits. So here’s the fine print: that means they might not have to be the same actual benefits.
