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The Republicans claim the Ryan plan would not eliminate Medicare. That is crap.
Sure, the Ryan plan would leave us with a system CALLED Medicare. But we should call it what it is: RyanCare. It's not Medicare, no matter what they call it.
Look at i this way: We could eliminate Medicare and then start calling the National Football League "Medicare." If we did that, we would technically not be "a nation without Medicare." But that does not mean the program passed in 1965 would still be there.
Ryan's plan eliminates the Medicare of 1965 and replaces it with another plan which would have the same name. But for all intents and purposes, it ends Medicare. It replaces Medicare with RyanCare.
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