Jonathan Chait and Greg Sargent are predicting that having all but officially lost their battle to privatize Medicare, Republicans will now continue to attack Democrats from the left for cutting the program through the Affordable Care Act. They will argue (as Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) does here) that the GOP budget preserves benefits for everybody over 54 while the Democrats cut benefits to today’s seniors and will continue to ration their care and allow the program to go bankrupt. As Chait points out, there is very little truth to any of that:
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