Rep. Paul Ryan's unhealthy preoccupation with health care. Medicaid Block grants would leave 30 million without coverage.

After all is said and done, all we have left...is our health. Take that away, like Paul Ryan is proposing, and what you have is a targeted version of disaster capitalism that threatens your very existence.

Rabid comes to mind. In fact, I might have done a previous post on Paul Ryan's obsession. I caught the video below where Ryan blames everything on the senior safety net. You really have to ask what he has against the idea that all people need and will use health care sometime in their lives. This isn't what Ryan describes as a hammock for the lazy, but actually life saving treatment. But his disconnect and anger over people using health care is bizarre.

You also might have noticed his budgetary plans fall apart if he doesn't leave families and the sick to ration care for themselves, a sick perverted idea of freedom, that should turn a persons stomach.

  

jsonline: Paul Ryan’s budget plan to convert Medicaid into a block grant and repeal the new health care law would leave at least 30 million more Americans without coverage, according to a new report by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-partisan health care research group. 

The proposal would result in deep cuts in Medicaid spending and significantly lower enrollment over the next decade compared to the levels projected under current law, the report said. 

In state-by-state estimates by Kaiser, federal Medicaid spending in Wisconsin would be about 33% lower over the next decade if the Ryan proposal went into effect.  Medicaid enrollment in the state could be cut by more than 40% ten years from now, the report projected. 

The Medicaid proposals would result in savings to the federal government of $1.4 trillion over ten years, according to the analysis, but substantially reduce the ability of states to cover low-income Americans.  

Additionally:  Thinkprogress: FactCheck.org has found that he used on the same sleight of hand in a series of “Setting The Record Straight” web posts on his website:

- A GOP document defending Ryan’s plan wrongly claims that the budget “does not cut Medicaid” and that it “spends more on Medicaid each year than it does the previous year.” That’s false. Ryan’s own projections call for slashing Medicaid below this year’s spending level for years to come