ThinkProgress takes us back:
During the debate over the Affordable Care Act, Ryan latched onto the bill?s cuts ? which targeted the inefficient and unnecessary private insurance-administered Medicare Advantage program ? and repeatedly attacked reformers for supposedly cutting or raiding Medicare:? In an op-ed written in a local paper in October 2009, Ryan said that President Obama broke his ?promises? to seniors by cutting Medicare. He complained that, ?in order to pay for the trillion dollar health care overhaul making its way through Congress?hundreds of billions of dollars will be cut from Medicare.? [10/1/09]
? In a Newsmax interview, Ryan complained that the health bill would involve ?10 years of tax increases and Medicare cuts to pay for six years of spending.? [2/25/10]
? On his congressional website, Ryan complained that the health care bill ?raises taxes by more than a half-trillion dollars over the next 10 years?the largest tax increase in American history?and cuts more than a half-trillion dollars from Medicare to finance this new entitlement.? [2010]Ryan gave one of his strongest denunciations of the health care bill?s supposed Medicare cuts at a meeting between President Obama and congressional Republicans at the Blair House in 2010. Ryan said that the health bill ?treats Medicare like a piggy bank? because it ?raids? half a trillion dollars out of it:
RYAN: Now, when you take a look at the Medicare cuts, what this bill essentially does is treats Medicare like a piggy bank. It raids a half a trillion dollars out of Medicare not to shore up Medicare?s solvency but to spend on this new government program.
Here it is, for posterity:
All of which was untrue. But I guess we should give some credit to Ryan. He's not just "cutting" Medicare, or "raiding" it, like he criticized Obama and the Dems for. No half measures for him. He's going whole hog and abolishing it.
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