This was Biden in 2008. Granted, Ryan’s ‘Roadmap for America’s Future’ (currently the ‘Path to Prosperity‘), was a lot uglier four years ago (it then included privatization of Social Security), but it still has, at its core, a plan to dismantle Medicare as we know it, and replace it with a costly, cumbersome voucher system, in which seniors are granted subsidies to be used in the private market (though these subsidies won’t keep up with skyrocketing healthcare costs). Romney, appearing with Ryan last night on 60 Minutes, embraced this proposal:
What Paul Ryan and I have talked about is saving Medicare, is providing people greater choice in Medicare, making sure it’s there for current seniors…
So what does Ryan’s budget tell us about his values? He’s willing to sacrifice the health of our most vulnerable on the alter of his rigid, and at times bizarre, interpretation of the libertarian canon, while at the same time burdening the poor and middle class to apportion more financial (and in turn political and social) freedom for the rich.
