Page 15 - Bryan Bill News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Radical deconstruction of medicare and medicaid. now as people have become aware of it, citizens across the country, they face this very tough vote. remember that a number of these republican senators are up for re-election next year. people like olympia snowe, richard luger, scott brown. if they vote for the ryan bill, they will strengthen themselves in their primaries but they'll go into november elections facing voters who will be furious with them. on the other hand if they vote against the ryan bill they'll face tea party primaries. >> john, what do you make of mitch mcconnell all of a su...

Force that moment where things might change? >> it's a part of the dialogue here, ed. understand this. they lost the debate on the ryan bill. those town hall meetings, the energy that was out there, these polls that show that 80% of americans don't want them to cut medicare and medicaid, they're trying desperately now to shift the debate to make this claim that oh, it's necessary to do all this in the debt ceiling moment. what the catholic scholars and others who are stepping up now, a lot of moral voices -- >> they call it anlty-life. >> yes. that's a big deal because this is getting us into ...

Cuts on the table. >> i mean the fact is he's using the debt ceiling. you know, so he is saying, look. we're not going down the road of getting rid of the tax cuts. but will the catholics maybe force that moment where things might change? >> it's a part of the dialogue here, ed. understand this. they lost the debate on the ryan bill. those town hall meetings, the energy that was out there, these polls that show that 80% of americans don't want them to cut medicare and medicaid, they're trying desperately now to shift the debate to make this claim that oh, it's necessary to do all this in the d...

Essentially gut medicaid under this republican program, what you would have is large numbers of seniors who would move from the nursing home in to their children's home, into the den. maybe one of their kids bedrooms. because there would not be the money anymore to have them have nursing home care. so these are some of the implications of this bill that was passed in this ideological frenzy that people have not yet fully understood. and i think once the details filter down, the implications filter down, you'll see real hell to pay for republicans in swing districts. a lot of them slit their ow...

>> i think what's interesting about that is that they assume that those are poor people who are not seniors -- i don't know who they think those poor people are. >> a lot of them are their parents. when you get old, you drawdown your net worth so you're eligible for medicaid and it will pay for the nursing home. so if the ryan plan which is now the republican plan, if that were to become the law of the ç land and you block granted medicaid, which would essentially gut medicaid under this republican program, what you would have is large numbers of seniors who would move from the nursing home ...