Brian Beutler reports at TPM that Nancy Pelosi and the White House are pushing back hard against a new bipartisan Medicare reform proposed by Democrat Ron Wyden of Oregon and Republican Paul Ryan of Wisconsin:
Two White House spokesmen — Jay Carney and Dan Pfeiffer — rejected the plan outright. Carney said the plan would “end Medicare as we know it.”
Leaving Wyden’s name out of it, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, “[Paul] Ryan’s latest Medicare plan is another example of GOP’s desire for Medicare, as Gingrich described, to “wither on the vine.”
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) — a top Dem on health care issues — lashed out: “despite Wyden’s claims otherwise, the Wyden-Ryan plan ends Medicare as we know it, plain and simple.”
Leaving Wyden’s name out of it, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said, “[Paul] Ryan’s latest Medicare plan is another example of GOP’s desire for Medicare, as Gingrich described, to “wither on the vine.”
Rep. Pete Stark (D-CA) — a top Dem on health care issues — lashed out: “despite Wyden’s claims otherwise, the Wyden-Ryan plan ends Medicare as we know it, plain and simple.”
In a statement this afternoon, Ryan said President Obama is “increasingly isolated from this growing bipartisan consensus” on Medicare:
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