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The Republican ticket’s big Medicare myth
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Aug 14, 2012 03:29pm |
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| Category | Analysis |
| Author | Ezra Klein |
| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Monday, August 13, 2012 03:05:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | I’ve got a modest proposal: You’re not allowed to demand a “serious conversation” over Medicare unless you can answer these three questions:
1) Mitt Romney says that “unlike the current president who has cut Medicare funding by $700 billion. We will preserve and protect Medicare.” What happens to those cuts in the Ryan budget?
2) What is the growth rate of Medicare under the Ryan budget?
3) What is the growth rate of Medicare under the Obama budget?
The answers to these questions are, in order, “it keeps them,” “GDP+0.5%,” and “GDP+0.5%.” |
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