05-03-2011, 07:06 PM
I have read all or most of the major Ryan proposals; what was striking to me was how little actual detail they contained about how they planned to restructure medicare. But the core idea is very much like Obamacare: require the private purchase of health insurance by all seniors through regulated market based exchanges. Here is that same basic analysis by the National Senior Citizesn Law Center:
http://www.slate.com/id/2292901
http://www.slate.com/id/2292901