that's mr. ryan's way of killing medicare. oh, yeah, he says you will get a voucher, you can buy medicare or you can buy private insurance. but it puts medicare into a death spiral. the ryan budget turns this successful, reliable, comprehensive source of health care that seniors have relied on for decades and have paid into, i might add, during their years of hard work into some unproven, unpredictable right-wing conservative experiment. well, i don't want to experiment with the elderly. i want them to have good health care that they can afford that's universal and that they can count on. obama, president obama has fought to strengthen medicare, and he believes, as we do, that it's a sacred contract, and he has made a commitment to strengthen medicare in the affordable care act. for example, by eliminating the gaps in coverage, closing the doughnut hole which we have already started to do. elderly iowans got over $600 back this year just from closing the doughnut hole, reducing the cost of prescription drugs. according to medi