BY THE NUMBERS: House Republican Plan to End Medicare Guarantee

Mar 8, 2012
Press Release
No matter how much they try to dress it up or change the subject, House Republicans cannot erase their vote last April to end the Medicare guarantee and put insurance companies in charge of seniors’ health care. The facts are simple:

BY THE NUMBERS

47 -- Years since the Medicare guarantee was signed into law by President Johnson on July 30, 1965

15 -- Number of minutes it took House Republicans to vote to end the Medicare guarantee on April 15, 2011

235 -- Number of House Republicans who voted to end the Medicare guarantee

98 -- Percentage of House Republicans who voted to end the Medicare guarantee

0 -- Number of House Democrats who voted to end the Medicare guarantee

39 -- Projected percentage increase in overall health spending due to reliance on high-cost private plans under GOP bill

$6,400 -- Projected annual increase in health care cost facing seniors by 2022 under the GOP plan to end the Medicare guarantee

Countless -- Number of Americans who would lose their Medicare guarantee starting in 2021


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