Best Clint Eastwood tweet ~

[BlueStreak]

38. I'm not sure there ARE any details

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I am just going based on the various things I have heard Romney and Ryan say.

If you pay the same amount all along, and then have the choice at age 65, why would anybody choose against full coverage in favor of a voucher worth part of the coverage? That would make no sense. And in that case, what would be the point of saying 55-year-olds are treated differently from 65-year-olds? If that was the plan, then they could start it tomorrow because they would be able to say "You can keep your Medicare as always with no changes, but you can choose to go with the glorious benefits of the free enterprise for-profit health insurance system."

And if the choice doesn't happen until 55-years-olds reach 65, then there would be no siphoning off of money today.

So I repeat. Why is nobody asking them these questions directly? Why are we wasting our time on an 82-year-old has-been actor with a sad case of dementia when there are issues of vital importance to all of us?