Saving Medicare: "The 55 and Under Plan"

Michele Bachmann:

...Explaining how she voted for Paul Ryan’s budget, she said she did so “with an asterisk” because the “asterisk is that we’ve got a huge messaging problem [on Medicare]. It needs to be called the 55-and-Under Plan. I can’t tell you the number of 78-year-old women who think we’re going to pull the rug out from under them.”

Mrs. Bachmann has faced up to the Democrats’ gaudy lie that people, aged 56 and over, are facing Medicare cuts with the Ryan Plan. They are not, not with the Ryan budget. Though with the Obamacare Plan we are all facing the eclipse of Medicare. Medicare will be slashed for everyone very soon, and that is written into the President’s policy...

It isn't hard to explain that if we follow the Democrat policies and ObamaCare there is not going to be medical care for seniors. Period. End of story. Finis. If seniors want to continue to receive medical care throughout the rest of their lives, we have to fix a program that's going bankrupt. One way of doing that is to adopt the Ryan plan which will affect only those under 55. The alternative is ObamaCare which will tell the elderly that they can't get treatment for their diseases because we can't afford it and hand them a pain pill or give them the option of turning off their own ventilators.