claim: under a proposal by rep. paul ryan, people on medicare will only have $15,000 from the federal government to spend on their health care.
author: bill maher
evidence_1: mar 6, 2017 ... it will drive down premiums, but only because insurance will become so  unaffordable for older americans that many of them will drop out of the  marketplace altogether. speaker of the house paul ryan, the bill's architect, finds  himself torn between two factions of republicans. one is the freedom caucus, ...
evidence_2: apr 5, 2011 ... ryan's proposal to turn medicare into a voucher provides an easy political target.  but it's hard to make a principled liberal case for the program in its current form.  to do so, you have to argue that government-paid health care should be a right  only for people over the age of 65, and for no one else. medicare ...
evidence_3: apr 8, 2014 ... the medicare proposals in the 2015 budget resolution from house budget  committee chairman paul ryan (r-wi) are much the same as those in ryan's  previous budgets. once again, chairman ryan proposes to replace medicare's  guarantee of health coverage with a premium-support voucher and raise ...
evidence_4: jan 24, 2017 ... while mulvaney has backed speaker paul ryan's drive to partially privatize  medicare, trump sought to differentiate himself from his gop presidential rivals ...  trump has seemed to embrace another entitlement change proposed by  republicans on capitol hill—shifting medicaid, which provides healthcare ...
evidence_5: the federal employees health benefits (fehb) program is a system of " managed competition" through which employee health benefits are provided to  civilian government employees and annuitants of the united states government.  the government contributes 72% of the weighted average premium of all plans,  not to ...