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Joe Nocera’s pleas to accept the Ryan plan as a conversation-starter notwithstanding, there’s no conversation less in need of starting than the conversation about how to reduce Social Security and Medicare benefits. It’s hard to think of another topic Beltway pundits are more likely to talk about. Nor can you contribute to the conversation with a worthless plan.

Let’s also be clear who started this. It is true that there’s an enormous amount of waste in the American system, and the example of virtually every other liberal democracy indicates that we could cover more people for less money by reducing or eliminating the role of private insurers. But, of course, even the cost reductions in the ACA — which were modest because of the need to buy off stakeholders created by the Madisonian system — were deemed by the GOP in 2010 as getting the government into your Medicare. The “leave Ryan alooooone!” argument is a plea for unilateral disarmament…against people who are ideologically opposed to the New Deal/Great Society social contract and aren’t honest. I’ll pass, thanks.

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