I really don't understand why you choose Paul Ryan to be your running mate if you intend to run as the ticket that doesn't want to cut Medicare.
Paul Ryan: For Medicare cuts before he was against them?
Wonkblog: Medicare
We’re having a ‘serious conversation’ over the issues!
In my experience, you're actually getting a more serious conversation over the issues if you listen directly to the two campaigns than if you're reading about the campaign as filtered through much of the media.
Wonkbook: The Medicare — and Medicaid — wars
With Ryan on the ticket, Medicare has moved to the center of the election. But in policy terms, it's Medicaid that's most under threat.
Sen. Wyden: Romney’s plan hurts the ‘poorest and most vulnerable seniors’
I asked Sen. Ron Wyden: How, specifically, is Romney's plan different from the one you wrote alongside Paul Ryan? An edited transcript of our conversation follows.
Paul Ryan’s budget keeps Obama’s Medicare cuts. Full stop.
Since the Romney campaign wants to run against President Obama's cuts to Medicare, it's something of a problem for them that Paul Ryan's budget includes those very same cuts to Medicare. And so they've come up with a somewhat confused and confusing argument to distinguish the two plans.
The Republican ticket’s big Medicare myth
It's a conservative myth that the White House hasn't put forward a Medicare reform plan. What that line really means is that White House hasn't put forward some variant of Paul Ryan's plan. But they've put forward their own.
Paul Ryan isn’t a deficit hawk. He’s a conservative reformer.
If you know about Paul Ryan at all, you probably know him as a deficit hawk. But Ryan has voted to increase deficits and expand government spending too many times for that to be his north star. Rather, the common thread throughout his career is his desire to remake the basic architecture of the the federal government.
Health care is crowding out everything. Social Security isn’t.
While it's clear that health care spending, including Medicare and Medicaid, is growing at an alarming rate that threatens other priorities, I don't think the evidence supports the view that Social Security is doing the same
No, Social Security and Medicare aren’t crowding out R&D and education
A new paper alleges that growing spending in Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid is crowding out spending on investments like education, research and development, and infrastructure. There are two reasons why this is misleading.
Do Democrats have their own individual mandate?
The Democrats' embrace of premium support was nothing like the Republican embrace of the individual mandate.
