That would be a no And the hits just keep on coming. Debbie Wasserman Schultz was on CBS News' "Face the Nation." (via NRO ) Do the Democrats have a plan to save Medicare? Do the Democrats have a plan? Smith : But the Trustees also said a couple of Fridays ago that this thing (Medicare) could be insolvent in the next decade. Doesn't something really dramatic have to happen, and as the Congressman suggested, Republicans have a plan, do the Democrats have a plan? Wasserman Schultz : Like I said, the Republicans have a plan to end Medicare as we know it. What they would do is they would take the people who are younger than 55 years old today and tell them You know what? You're on your own. Go and find private health insurance in the healthcare insurance market, we're going to throw you to the wolves and allow insurance companies to deny you coverage and drop you for pre-existing conditions. We're going to give you X amount of dollars and you figure it out. Yuval Levin notes that just about everything Wasserman Schultz said about the Ryan plan was false, including "the" and "and." None of this is true, and it's especially important to understand that the latter parts are not true. The Ryan plan would not leave future seniors to find insurance on their own in the private market, and it wouldn't allow insurance companies to deny coverage or drop people for pre-existing conditions. It