Privatizing Medicare: What're Trump and the Republicans Up To ???

One of Paul Ryan's longstanding goals has been to transform federal entitlement programs in a way that reduces the generosity of their benefits, including by transforming Medicare so that it would (ironically) look a lot more like the Affordable Care Act, with seniors receiving a fixed subsidy toward the purchase of a private insurance plan.

Ryan's Plan to Phase Out Medicare

http://theweek.com/articles/661571/hey-trump-voters-paul-ryan-already-coming-medicare

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/15/paul-ryans-plan-to-phase-out-medicare-is-just-what-democrats-need/?0p19G=c&utm_term=.a908e4105c2f