CSPAN American Politics June 12, 2011
like to see from medicare? >> well, i think the republican leadership has pretty much acknowledged that paul ryan's plan to transform medicare into a voucher system is not going to be on the table in these talks. they acknowledge it's not going to go anywhere because democrats won't touch it. but the distinction that he made is that he is more in favor of the pete domenici, a former budget committee chairman, and alice rivlin's plan, which is a similar approach to paul ryan's, in that it transforms medicare, but it allows people to stay in a traditional program if they don't find a c...