House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan is unfazed by opponents who use CBO numbers to attack his budget proposal.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and other Democrats have argued Ryan's plan would ask seniors to pay more for their benefits -- charging every senior $6,000 more every year -- in exchange for fewer benefits.
"What that [CBO] analysis forgot to include was the extra $7,800 a year that go to lower income seniors to cover all of their out of pocket costs. They're measuring any Medicare reform plan like ours against a mythical future, a fiscal fantasy, which is a collapsing system," Rep. Ryan (R-Wisc.) emphatically told Bret Baier Thursday evening.
"They literally forgot to put that in the analysis," he added.
kinda sucks to have your plan lambasted by fearmongering and half truths. Feels kind of like healthcare reform all over again huh conservatives? In this hyperpartisan political climate, with extremes on both sides sucking up anything they hear/read as the gospel truth, we'll never make the right moves on the biggest initiatives.
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