The Romney campaign confirmed today that their VP choice, Congressman Paul Ryan will be headed to Florida for events this Saturday and Sunday. Rep. Ryan will likely meet some cloudy dispositions when he arrives in the sunshine state, mainly because of his stance on Medicare. The Ryan budget proposes transitioning Medicare to a premium support system, that provides vouchers to seniors to use toward buying their own health care. The problem, critics of this plan argue, is those vouchers may not be enough to cover the rising cost of health care, and leave people to pay more out of pocket (as much as $6,400 for the average person, according to a Congressional Budget Office review of Ryan’s 2011 budget).
The spending reductions for Medicare in Ryan’s blueprint are supposedly geared toward debt and deficit reduction, but polls show strong public opposition to that. A survey by the Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation found 79% of registered voters oppose cutting Medicare benefits in order to pay down the debt.









