{"id":17551,"date":"2013-03-28T12:55:11","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=17551"},"modified":"2013-03-28T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T16:55:11","slug":"the-liberal-origins-of-paul-ryan%e2%80%99s-pro-market-medicare-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/17551\/the-liberal-origins-of-paul-ryan%e2%80%99s-pro-market-medicare-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Liberal Origins of Paul Ryan\u2019s Pro-Market Medicare Reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.heartland.org\/2013\/03\/left-and-right-extremists-fail-to-see-paul-ryans-win-win-entitlement-reform\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Ferrara<\/a>, a budget expert at The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank, reminds us where many of Paul Ryan\u2019s ideas on Medicare reform originally came from:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This Medicare reform plan was actually developed by President Clinton\u2019s Medicare Commission, so it had bipartisan support at a time when the Democrat Party had grown ups in influential positions, rather than just adolescent, Marxist, revolutionaries posing in grown up drag.\u00a0 The legislation providing for these reforms was actually introduced in the Senate by liberal Democrat Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon.\u00a0 It has been endorsed by long time liberal academic Alice Rivlin, the Godmother of the CBO, serving as its first director.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the plan was developed from an initial proposal in 1995 by two lifelong liberal scholars, Henry Aaron of the Brookings Institution, and former CBO Director Robert Reischauer.\u00a0 They were the first to propose a premium support system for Medicare in a 1995 article in the journal <em>Health Affairs<\/em>.\u00a0 The Reischauer\/Aaron concept was later embodied in Medicare Parts C and D in the 2003 Medicare reforms, where they have already worked very effectively.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That\u2019s right \u2013 Proposed by liberals, passed by conservatives.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, who\u2019s out of the mainstream now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Ferrara, a budget expert at The Heartland Institute, a free market think tank, reminds us where many of Paul Ryan\u2019s ideas on Medicare reform originally came from: This Medicare reform plan was actually developed by President Clinton\u2019s Medicare Commission, so it had bipartisan support at a time when the Democrat Party had grown ups [&hellip;]<\/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":[501,3308,4082,862,235,802,1447],"class_list":["post-17551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-bill-clinton","tag-health","tag-heartland-institute","tag-market","tag-medicare","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551","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=17551"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17556,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17551\/revisions\/17556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}