House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan’s bipartisan Medicare proposal with Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., drew immediate fire from the White House earlier today, but now Ryan is fighting back.
“We are concerned that Wyden-Ryan, like Congressman Ryan’s earlier proposal, would undermine, rather than strengthen, Medicare,” said White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, according to the Huffington Post. “The Wyden-Ryan scheme could, over time, cause the traditional Medicare program to “wither on the vine” because it would raise premiums, forcing many seniors to leave traditional Medicare and join private plans. And it would shift costs from the government to seniors. At the end of the day, this plan would end Medicare as we know it for millions of seniors. Wyden-Ryan is the wrong way to reform Medicare.”
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Ryan’s office just emailed the following response from him:
