Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are pursuing an internally contradictory sales pitch, which includes loud general calls for “adult conversation” about entitlement reform, coupled with demagoguery over the very idea of Medicare provider cuts in Obamacare. Republicans’ elaborate effort to combine two things that really don’t mix calls to mind that classic SNL commercial for a combination floor-wax nondairy dessert topping.
For more on the dysjunction between a stridently conservative GOP platform, various Ryan proposals, and the evolving Romney Medicare plan, see my full healthinsurance.org column, here.
Tags: Medicare
Just a request. I you can find a clip on YouTube please use that rather than Hulu.
Those of us who aren’t Americans can’t access Hulu.