claim: "seniors will have to find $12,500 for health care because republicans voted to end medicare."
author: democratic congressional campaign committee
evidence_1: nov 14, 2016 ... seniors would get a federal voucher to help them pay premiums charged by  commercial insurance plans. ... ryan's plan would do nothing to rein in  healthcare costs, but would likely increase them, in part because medicare  beneficiaries would be saddled with paying not only for their care, but for the ...
evidence_2: dec 20, 2011 ... just four days after the party-line vote, the democratic congressional campaign  committee released a web ad that said seniors will have to pay $12,500 more for  health care "because republicans voted to end medicare." rep. steve israel of  new york, head of the dccc, appeared on cable news shows ...
evidence_3: sep 26, 2011 ... some policymakers and analysts have proposed to convert medicare to a " premium support" system — that is, replace its guarantee of health coverage with  ... would likely lead to a two-tier health care system: the affluent would receive the  most up-to-date medical care (since they could buy comprehensive ...
evidence_4: but medicare and medicaid have also created severe and lasting problems for  both health care ... of representatives the next year, republicans voted not only  to repeal the 2010 legislation but also to replace the traditional .... in congress  the first effort to pass a health insurance program for seniors began in 1957 with  the.
evidence_5: nov 1, 2011 ... to analyze the extent to which americans aged 65 and older may have voted as  an old age–benefits bloc in the 2010 midterm election in respons. ... democratic  party decried the plan, noting that it would “end medicare as we know it” and be  devastating for the health of seniors because the majority of them ...