It is little wonder that President Clinton has threatened to veto any voucher plan for the District of Columbia.
So most experts will tell you the way this voucher plan encourages savings is not through better care at cheaper cost.
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Will the President stop calling his plan a voucher plan for Medicare?
IR In your analysis of the voucher plan forgetting for a moment that most states hold that such plans are illegal you overlook two critical issues.
One, how many students for these vouchers are you allowing in this plan that you have, and how much is the voucher plan with this new (inaudible)?
"Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan know a detailed debate about their Medicare voucher plan is politically 'suicidal' so they're not telling the truth about its impact on current seniors, " he said.
He says that in Japan education ceases to be compulsory at 14, although most students opt to stay on under an indirect voucher plan whereby government aid is channeled to the school on the basis of enrollment.
Wide outrage spurred him and Ron Wyden, a Democratic senator, to suggest in December that the elderly instead put their voucher towards either a private plan or traditional Medicare, which would survive.
If a plan cost less than the voucher, a beneficiary could pocket the extra cash.
In November the government unveiled a plan to increase the value of the voucher, especially for the poorest children.
Rather it is an insurance voucher entitling the individual or family to enrollment in health plan of their choice.
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And the essence of the plan is that you would turn Medicare into a voucher program.
His plan also would end Medicare as we know it by turning it into a voucher system, shifting thousands of dollars in health care costs to seniors.
Today, the GOP is pursuing the Ryan budget plan that would destroy Medicare as we know it, turning it into a voucher program that has no chance of keeping up with the rising costs of medical care and leaving seniors to face a future of inadequate and unavailable health care.
The House Republicans just passed a proposal, and their main plan to reduce our long-term deficits and debt is to turn Medicare into a voucher program.
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