Apart from the so-called war on women, the most contentious issue in the current presidential elections is the fight over which party will truly preserve Medicare, the program that subsidizes health care for the elderly.

Speaking at the Republican National Convention, Ryan explained that in order to pass the president’s health care law, known as Obamacare, Democrats “needed hundreds of billions more. So, they just took it all away from Medicare. $716 billion, funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. … A Romney-Ryan administration will protect and strengthen Medicare, for my mom’s generation, for my generation, and for my kids and yours.”