They've got a window and they're going to use it
by digby
Since Obamacare's going to be repealed and replaced with fairy dust I've been thinking my best hope is to stay healthy until I get to Medicare. It's a few years away but my husband and I have strong constitutions so maybe we'll get lucky and the major illnesses won't kick in until we hit 65.
I guess that plan isn't really workable either:
During the campaign, coverage of the issues was blotted out by coverage of Hillary Clinton’s emails and Donald Trump’s broad suite of sociopathic tendencies. And of the issues that did receive any attention, a conspicuously missing one was Paul Ryan’s plan to push Medicare beneficiaries into private health insurance. Reporters just assumed that, since Trump never talked about it, it won’t happen. But Paul Ryan still wants it to happen. And in a Fox News interview with Bret Baier, Ryan said Medicare privatization is on.
He said "entitlements" were on the table too. It's true that Trump promised that he wouldn't touch them but he's such an imbecile that Ryan can convince him that he hasn't broken his promise and this election has shown that he can lie with impunity anyway. His older voters won't be affected and the younger one's think he's going to make them rich so it's all good.
This should be a lot of fun.
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