The other Paul Ryan plan: $800B in Medicaid cuts (AP via Yahoo)

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The other Paul Ryan plan: $800B in Medicaid cuts

WASHINGTON (AP) — There's another Paul Ryan plan for health care, a fundamental change in caring for the poor and disabled that would affect many more people than the Medicare overhaul the GOP vice presidential candidate is best known for.

Under the Wisconsin congressman's Medicaid plan, states would take over the program. At the same time, Ryan's budget would reduce projected federal spending on Medicaid by about $800 billion over 10 years, dramatically shrinking it as a share of the national economy.

Medicaid serves about 60 million people, roughly 10 million more than Medicare. It's a diverse population brought together by need.
Most Medicaid recipients are low-income children and their mothers, but the costliest cases are severely disabled people, many of them seniors in nursing homes.

Ryan would also repeal President Barack Obama's health care law, expected to add at least 11 million more people to Medicaid.

http://news.yahoo.com/other-paul-ryan-plan-800b-medicaid-cuts-071209801--finance.html

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1. Yet Florida is in the balance?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

2. What will Wal-Mart (and other low-income) employees do

once Medicaid is cut and Obamacare is repealed?

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3. These are Ryan's steps to get rid of Medicaid

voters should be made aware of this