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SOCIAL SECURITY: GOP Representative deepens divide in Medicare Overhaul

May 23, 2011

Washington - Republican Senator Scott Brown has expressed opposition to Paul Ryan’s proposal to solve congressional budget issues, causing yet another crack in GOP’s stand on Medicare’s proposed privatization surfaced.

Brown said that he could not support Ryan’s proposal as it would entail larger healthcare costs for the elderly in the competitive market. He also added that the country’s fiscal state is currently unstable, but there is no need to radically change Medicare at the moment.

“We can work inside of Medicare to make it more solvent,” Brown said, echoing Democratic sentiments.

His rejection of Ryan’s proposal came after Senator Susan Collins, a fellow Republican, voted against it.

Ryan’s proposal adapts a voucher-style system for access to beneficiaries like elders and disabled persons, shouldering only a significant minority of the expenditures to the government.

The proposed revamp aims to cut a total of $5.8 trillion of federal funding.

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