{"id":13057,"date":"2012-02-17T17:51:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T22:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13057"},"modified":"2012-02-17T19:51:30","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:51:30","slug":"growing-support-for-ryan%e2%80%99s-medicare-reform-2-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13057\/growing-support-for-ryan%e2%80%99s-medicare-reform-2-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Growing Support for Ryan\u2019s Medicare Reform 2.0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back in December I wrote a column defending a Medicare reform proposal<\/a> outlined by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).\u00a0 Unlike Ryan\u2019s \u201cPath to Prosperity\u201d budget resolution that passed the House in 2011, Ryan-Wyden retains traditional Medicare.\u00a0 However, like Ryan\u2019s original reform, Ryan-Wyden introduces private sector competition by allowing seniors to use vouchers to select the plan \u2013 public or private \u2013 that they want, with any savings from a less expensive plan landing in the seniors\u2019 pocket.<\/p>\n

At the time, Ryan-Wyden was reported as an idea by two policy wonks with no discernable political support on Capitol Hill.\u00a0 That changed this week when Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK) and Richard Burr (R-NC) introduced a bill that substantially mirrors<\/a> Ryan-Wyden\u2019s Medicare-plus-competition proposal.\u00a0 Although both pairings are so far quiet on the similarities between their plans, this is a good first step toward getting a common conceptual framework around an idea that increases competition.<\/p>\n

Not that you\u2019d know any this from reading Think Progress\u2019 headline<\/a> announcing the Coburn-Burr plan as \u201cTwo Republican Senators Try to Walk Back Paul Ryan\u2019s Medicare Privatization Plan.\u201d\u00a0 Indeed, one has to read halfway into the article to discover that Coburn-Burr \u201cis very similar to the bipartisan framework outlined by Ryan and Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR) last year and adds little to the Medicare reform debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

To Think Progress\u2019 way of thinking there is little news value when two conservative Republican Senators introduce an almost identical reform plan to one announced by a liberal Democratic colleague and the most influential Republican Congressman.\u00a0 Almost everyone else knows better.\u00a0 With support growing for Ryan\u2019s Medicare 2.0 reform, expect to see more movement Ryan\u2019s way as the year rolls on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Back in December I wrote a column defending a Medicare reform proposal outlined by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).\u00a0 Unlike Ryan\u2019s \u201cPath to Prosperity\u201d budget resolution that passed the House in 2011, Ryan-Wyden retains traditional Medicare.\u00a0 However, like Ryan\u2019s original reform, Ryan-Wyden introduces private sector competition by allowing seniors to use […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,802,1447,665,182,15],"class_list":["post-13057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-medicare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reform","tag-richard-burr","tag-ron-wyden","tag-tom-coburn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13057"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13061,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13057\/revisions\/13061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}