private Republican legislators discussed ways Tuesday to better explain a proposed revision of a program of people's health for the elderly after a certain number of exchanges strained with the voters.
"Some members are feeling the heat," an aide of the Congress said, referring to the reaction of some voters to a proposal by Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Finance Committee of representatives, gradually privatize the Medicare program.
In a conference call, House Republicans, who are at the heart of a stay of two weeks, spoke on how to ensure those aged 55 years and over that the recommended changes would not affect them, said of the aid.
Ryan, who drafted the budget plan that calls for ending the program of Medicare managed by traditional Government for 54 and younger people, gave pointers on how to apply the Republican cause for the redesign of the programsaid aid.
Ryan quoted one aide as members of the House that "our plan strengthens Medicare, protects the elderly of today and (protects) Medicare for future generations."
According to polls, the proposal is unpopular with many Americans, and Republican legislators hear one say of their constituents, according to the accounts of news and video ads on the Internet of local assemblies.
A meeting Tuesday in Orlando, Florida, by Representative Dan Webster to noisy, with the crowd shouting down the Member of the Congress of the first term and yelling at the other, according to an account by the Orlando Sentinel.
Ryan himself was booed at a meeting of the week last his appeal to reduce taxes for the rich in his plan to reduce U.S. budget deficits by $ 4.4 billion over 10 years.
The budget plan of Ryan passed the House led by the Republican earlier this month, but has no chance to get through the Senate Democrats. The battle over Medicare will likely extend through next year's presidential election. Democrats accuse Republicans of seeking to put an end to the health care program to continue the tax breaks for the rich.
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The Medicare proposal would give future pensioners, a federal subsidy to buy a santée of private insurers cover. Anyone now 55 years and more still have access to traditional health insurance benefits.
Republican Allen West of Florida said he had heard of constituents for and against the proposal.
"Persons seeking opposition are provided misinformation about what the budget of the health insurance, reform," said West in an e-mail.
"Those calling for support to realize that if changes are made not today for individuals aged less than 55 years, the program will be when they take their retirement."
Democrats and Liberals of the groups of interest running ads against a number of Republicans who voted for the Ryan plan.
Until now, voter ire did not appear to come redesign of President Barack Obama health care about public anger in 2009. Which became a rallying cry for the fiscally conservative Tea Party movement to help the Republicans win the House Democrats in the legislative elections last year.
Griffin's Arkansas representative Tim said constituents become more understanding in the revision is placed in the context of the headliner now 14 billion dollars in the national debt.
Griffin said he explained to his constituents that he had not voted to end Medicare and that the program would be breaks in nine years, if nothing was done to fix.
"If someone really wanted to end Medicare, they would not propose a reform, they would do nothing,"Griffin said."".
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