Month: April 2011

2012 Proposed Budget Changes to Medicare and Repeal of Health Insurance Reform

I've been thinking about the recommendation to privatize Medicare, recently announced by Paul Ryan as part of the Republican Party's 2012 federal budget proposal. Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin was chosen as chairman of the House Budget Committee after the Republican victories in the 2010 midterm elections. The proposed 2012 budget would reduce the amount currently budgeted for Medicare and change Medicare…