Monday, April 25, 2011
Paul Ryan and His Critics - WSJ.com
Granted, Medicare is a big issue for all of us.
That should make us receptive to changes that will allow it or something similar for the future.
If there's a way to do it that is financially sound, and with reduced government bureaucracy, we should pay attention...
That should make us receptive to changes that will allow it or something similar for the future.
If there's a way to do it that is financially sound, and with reduced government bureaucracy, we should pay attention...
The Wall Street Journal comments on Congressman Paul Ryan and his detractors:
"These attacks amount to false fronts for the real objection, which is over the role of government. Mr. Ryan's critics understand very well that he wants to substitute markets for bureaucratic central planning. What he would dismantle isn't Medicare, but its system of one-size-fits-all coverage and price controls. The liberal answer to runaway costs, passed as part of ObamaCare, is the Independent Payment Advisory Board that will decide how much the government will pay for what treatments and was deliberately shielded from Congressional supervision.
Medicare 'as we know it' will change because it must. The only issue is how. Mr. Ryan is offering Americans a reform rooted in consumer choice and private competition, rather than political control and bureaucratic rationing. This is why he is under such ferocious liberal assault."
