BY FROMA HARROP The House Republican plan for balancing budgets includes deep cuts in federal health care spending. It is honest but not nice. It’s not nice at all. Give the blueprint’s author, Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, credit for this: He bravely goes where the big money is – Medicare, the popular government health plan for the elderly and disabled. His vision would ditch Medicare as we know it, whereby the government picks up […]

GOP Plan For Medicare Is Not Nice
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