claim: the romney-ryan plan for medicare "does not affect" benefits for anyone 55 or older.
author: paul ryan
evidence_1: mitt romney's choice of paul ryan as a running mate has sparked a major  national ... that ryan's plan to reform medicare would not affect anyone age 55 or  older, ... gone would be medicaid benefits for millions of older americans,  working ...
evidence_2: nov 1, 2012 ... the future of medicare, the federal health care program for older and disabled  americans, has been a key issue in the race for the ... ryan: the romney-ryan  plan for medicare "does not affect" benefits for anyone 55 or older.
evidence_3: aug 14, 2012 ... anyone 55 years and older can safely ignore the chatter. ... the ryan plan would  scrap medicare's current defined-benefit program in favor ... medicare would  represent a dramatic change, medicare is not immune to change, ...
evidence_4: aug 27, 2012 ... that claim is not only false, but brazenly and incontrovertibly so. ... picked paul  ryan as his running mate, president obama has misleadingly defended ... the  romney plan for medicare reform, along with the related ... furthermore, none of  these reforms would affect anyone over the age of 55, though the ...
evidence_5: oct 11, 2012 ... older folks—really, everyone 55 and over, who is allegedly “protected” from ...  nearing medicare eligibility age would be harmed by the romney-ryan plan. ...  when the medicare prescription drug benefit, known as part d, was signed into ...  that no one at or near retirement would be affected by their plan?