How The GOP Should Handle the Medicare Issue, Sound Bite Style

President Obama: Paul Ryan's plan is bad for seniors. It's going to cut off funding for Medicare, and your medical treatment will be cut off and you'll be dying in the streets because Paul Ryan doesn't want you to get the care you need.

GOP Nominee: President Obama has offered no plan for fixing Medicare, so we can only assume that his plan is the status quo. However, the status quo is not an option. Left alone, Medicare will cost over 80% of GDP by 2030. As health care costs go up, fewer and fewer doctors will even accept Medicare patients. You are already seeing this. President Obama's plan is nothing than the effective abolition of Medicare.

It is conservatives that seek to preserve Medicare by making sure seniors get the assistance they need to get health care. We believe in this goal, but we also know we cannot afford to dedicate our entire economy to it. The only way to do this is to lower the cost of health care. The only way to do that is to give you, the consumer, the incentive to find the best value for you. We're so used to someone else paying the bill it will be shock at first, but add the voucher payments and the lower cost of care providers who actually have to compete for your business, and you'll be better off in the end. And yes, those who can will need to bear a greater responsibility for paying their own health care costs. We can save Medicare, but we'll have to learn to live in a different reality.

Can we improve on the Ryan Plan? Of course, and we'll do so. President Obama stands to do nothing and hope a committee in DC can lower costs. Unless you believe in the power of a central planning to make things more efficient, this is the same as abolishing Medicare, and we won't stand for it.