New House Budget Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) is picking up right where his predecessor Paul Ryan (R-WI) left off.<\/p>\n
Today, Price introduced his first federal budget proposal<\/a> which borrows heavily from Ryan\u2019s plans, \u201cincluding a plan that would transform Medicare into a voucher-like \u2018premium support\u2019 program for seniors joining Medicare in 2024 or later,\u201d reports Fox News<\/a>. \u201cThey would receive a subsidy to purchase health insurance on the private market.\u201d<\/p>\n Price would also keep Ryan\u2019s idea to convert Medicaid and food stamps into federal block grants that states can spend with more freedom than they do now.<\/p>\n Though this budget stands little chance of passing because Republicans in Congress don\u2019t have the votes to overcome a certain veto by President Barack Obama, retaining the core of Ryan\u2019s reform package sends an important signal that these budget proposals are now the fundamental elements of any conservative spending reduction agenda. Every GOP presidential aspirant will have to weigh in on whether they support this approach and what, if any, changes they would make.<\/p>\n This is deliberative democracy at its best.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New House Budget Chairman Tom Price (R-GA) is picking up right where his predecessor Paul Ryan (R-WI) left off. Today, Price introduced his first federal budget proposal which borrows heavily from Ryan\u2019s plans, \u201cincluding a plan that would transform Medicare into a voucher-like \u2018premium support\u2019 program for seniors joining Medicare in 2024 or later,\u201d reports […]<\/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":[3887,143,70,84,802,61,415],"class_list":["post-22617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-3887","tag-barack-obama","tag-budget","tag-congress","tag-paul-ryan","tag-spending","tag-tom-price"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617","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=22617"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22624,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22617\/revisions\/22624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}