Question (re: Medicare vouchers)

[Proud Liberal Dem]

Are there any insurance companies whom have come out and said that they would even insure retirees under a hypothetical Ryan voucher plan? Kind of something that you think that Ryan would want to make sure before he introduced his *bold* idea and Congress voted on his plan, right?

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I think I saw something that estimated the individual would have to pay

$12,000/year for a policy and the government voucher would be for $8,000.

Found what I had read here: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2011/04/ryan_medicare.html/

[still_one]

2. I heard today a minimum of six thousand dollars a year more per each retired individual /nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. and what's Ryan's *bold* plan to address this? (rhetorical)

[still_one]

5. Simple, you can't afford healthcare, don't get sick /nt

[Proud Liberal Dem]

6. "......and if you DO get sick, die quickly."

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. The Policies You Buy Would Have Unaffordable Copays.

Price of a band aid $20,000. Copay $18,000. The voucher will buy insurance but the insurance companies can raise the copays all they want.