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insurance company a voucher on your behalf. it looks like voucher program but he wants to call it premium support. the problem with calling it premium support is there is two guys who invented premium support in the 90s. i spoke to aaron. he says no what rye and got is not premium support it is vouchers. the difference between the two types of plan says that when you are on premium support the government tries to keep cost sifting from happening. they make sure the growth rate is at the same rate as medical costs. under ryan plan it only grow eats the rate of inflation and there a lot of cost shave r shifting making it in henry aaron s view not premium support but a voucher. henry aaron is the only part i understand. i think for all of the wrong reasons. all i know is he didn t do steroids. steve, here is where i m coming from, from a distance. i look at a country that s $14
demagoguery unfortunately, worked in the past. here is a definition of demagogue. a leaders making use of popular prejudice and false claims and promises to in order to gain power but when they say it will end medicare as we know it are they right? is one man s demagoguing other man s truth telling? ezra, i m interested to have you dissect and explain us to, something said on morning joe. mike posed a question to congressman paul ryan about his plan. aheard you say in your explanation of your plan that there are no vouchers in this plan. that s correct. so i want to ask you for people who are 54 years of age or younger, when they re 70 years of age, are they dealing and negotiating with an insurance company or dealing with medicare? it s medicare. it is just like the benefit works today or medicare
welcome back to hard ball. this week the republican house passed budget plan noticed the ryan plan was on the skillet. defending it, ryan accused of a political tactic, the demagogue. there is a story being told here and the story is the president with the demagogue healthcare. both parties have done this to each other. i won t sigh ruchs have never done this but if we continue to demagogue this program it will collapse. if we demagogue entitlement reform then the programs collapse. so yes, it is demagoguery. it is scaring seniors and yes people are nervous because of these ads.
this before. i think we have all seen this before. if you think back to 1995 and 1996 when republicans push through a plan and president clinton vetoed it and there was a shut down of the federal government it was over cutting $270 billion in pled care. clinton said that s too far, this is too extreme. they said this is confirms your worst suspensions about the republican party. that is exact lit kind of district from fall of 1996 just two years of a the republican revolution of 1994. exactly the kind of district where there is a real backlash and republicans lost nearly 20 republican incumbents in the house in 1996, lost every single one of them had ads against them talking about medicare. here is a part, by the way, of the winner in that race. ezra, i will come back to you of a we listen. we can balance our budget the right way. and not on the backs of our