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60 Plus Spokesman Pat Boone Campaigned For Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan, “Which Would Transform
Medicare From A Fee-For-Service Health Coverage Provider To A Supplier Of Direct Checks To Seniors.”
According to the Atlantic, “Now, Boone is campaigning for Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) Medicare plan, which would transform
Medicare from a fee-for-service health coverage provider to a supplier of direct checks to seniors. Under Ryan's plan, seniors
would get ‘premium support’ payments to buy private insurance from a list of government-approved plans. ‘Harry Reid and
his cohorts are not fooling seniors with the ‘Medi-scare’ tactics. Rep. Ryan's budget will not end Medicare. Instead, it will
preserve the offerings of this program for our children and grandchildren,’ Boone wrote in a 60 Plus press release Friday
morning.” [The Atlantic, 5/27/11]
60 Plus Spent $1.4 Million On A Television “Ad Featuring Congressman Paul Ryan And Defending The Republican
Plan To Reform Medicare.” According to 60 Plus, “The 60 Plus Association, nationally recognized as the conservative
alternative to the liberal AARP, today launched a television ad featuring Congressman Paul Ryan and defending the
Republican plan to reform Medicare. The seniors-interest advocacy organization is spending $1.4 million to run the ad
nationally.” [60 Plus, 6/17/11]
RYAN USED RESEARCH FROM THE KOCH BACKED HERITAGE FOUNDATION
TO SUPPORT HIS PROPOSED BUDGET
House Budget Chairman Rep. Paul Ryan Cited A Study By The Heritage Center For Data Analytics To Support His
Proposed Budget Called “The Path To Prosperity.” According to an opinion by Chairman of the House Budget
Committee Congressman Paul Ryan for the Wall Street Journal, “A study just released by the Heritage Center for Data
Analysis projects that The Path to Prosperity will help create nearly one million new private-sector jobs next year, bring the
unemployment rate down to 4% by 2015, and result in 2.5 million additional private-sector jobs in the last year of the decade.
It spurs economic growth, with $1.5 trillion in additional real GDP over the decade. According to Heritage's analysis, it would
result in $1.1 trillion in higher wages and an average of $1,000 in additional family income each year.” [Paul Ryan – Wall Street
Journal, 4/5/11]
Heritage And Other Koch Groups Publicly Supported The Ryan Budget
Grover M. Hermann Fellow In Federal Budgetary Affairs In The Thomas A. Roe Institute For Economic Policy
Studies At The Heritage Foundation Patrick Louis Knudsen: “Many Of Ryan’s Reform Proposals Would Enhance
Congress’s Ability To,” Control Spending And Limit The Size And Scope Of Government. According to a memo by
the Grover M. Herman fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at the
Heritage Foundation Patrick Louis Knudsen, “The congressional budget has three principal roles: (1) to control spending, (2)
to limit the size and scope of government, and (3) to compel choices among governing priorities. In short, budgeting truly is
governing. Many of Ryan’s reform proposals would enhance Congress’s ability to achieve these aims. The legislation attacks
the most basic problem in federal budgeting—the lack of spending limits—in a simple way: by imposing a cap on total
spending and separate ceilings on discretionary and entitlement spending.” [“Chairman Ryan’s Proposals for Fixing the Budget
Process,” Patrick Louis Knudsen – Heritage Foundation, accessed 12/21/15]
60 Plus Spokesman Pat Boone Campaigned For Rep. Paul Ryan's Medicare Plan, “Which Would Transform
Medicare From A Fee-For-Service Health Coverage Provider To A Supplier Of Direct Checks To Seniors.”
According to the Atlantic, “Now, Boone is campaigning for Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) Medicare plan, which would transform
Medicare from a fee-for-service health coverage provider to a supplier of direct checks to seniors. Under Ryan's plan, seniors
would get ‘premium support’ payments to buy private insurance from a list of government-approved plans. ‘Harry Reid and
his cohorts are not fooling seniors with the ‘Medi-scare’ tactics. Rep. Ryan's budget will not end Medicare. Instead, it will
preserve the offerings of this program for our children and grandchildren,’ Boone wrote in a 60 Plus press release Friday
morning.” [The Atlantic, 5/27/11]
60 Plus Spent $1.4 Million On A Television “Ad Featuring Congressman Paul Ryan And Defending The Republican
Plan To Reform Medicare.” According to 60 Plus, “The 60 Plus Association, nationally recognized as the conservative
alternative to the liberal AARP, today launched a television ad featuring Congressman Paul Ryan and defending the