Medicare != Welfare

Ryan Defends Medicare Privatization As Strengthening 'Welfare For Those Who Need It' | TPMDC: "Though billed as an effort to revamp his widely criticized budget, Ryan avoided describing his health care plans in specific detail, eschewing even the friendly terms he and other Republicans have used to explain it since he first unveiled it earlier this year. Instead, Ryan reframed the entitlement cuts in his budget as 'strengthen[ing] welfare for those who need it,' and accused Democrats who have attacked his budget as engaging in class warfare."