Paul Ryan Medicare vouchers are designed to be worthless

There is a giant hole in the Paul Ryan end Medicare voucher plan that has been hidden under the darker side of the debate. The Medicare vouchers are designed to be completely worthless.

The Affordable Care Act, which is the proper name for what the GOP has dubbed Obamacare, contains a provision that bans insurance companies from excluding people with pre-existing conditions.

The Fact Sheet of the Affordable care Act states: “Starting July 1, Americans locked out of the insurance market because of a pre-existing condition can begin enrolling in the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan (PCIP). This program offers insurance without medical underwriting to people who have been unable to get it because of a preexisting condition. It ends in 2014, when the ban on insurers refusing to cover adults with pre-existing conditions goes into effect and individuals will have affordable choices through Exchanges – the same choices as members of Congress.”

If the republicans manage to repeal or de-fund the Affordable Care Act, (Obamacare) insurance companies will once again shut the door in the face of ailing seniors, and everyone else with pre-existing conditions. Furthermore, since the Paul Ryan budget plan claims it will not turn Medicare into a voucher system until after the 2014 Affordable Care Act deadline, it means that by the time the voucher program kicks in, people with pre-existing conditions would be unable to get health insurance.

The deck has been stacked against seniors and the details of the Paul Ryan Medicare voucher plan have been purposefully kept hidden. In reality, the only goal Ryan's plan will achieve is the fulfillment of the Republican Party's long time dream to repeal Medicare once and for all.

It’s not hard to do the math, and once you do, the fact of the matter becomes obvious. The Paul Ryan Medicare voucher plan is deliberately designed to be completely worthless.