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[Music] Female Announcer: It’s true – Mitt Romney would replace Medicare’s guaranteed benefits with a voucher system.

The Romney-Ryan plan could raise seniors’ costs up to $6,400 a year.

While under President Obama...

A seventy-five-percent increase in health-care fraud prosecutions.

Lowering seniors’ Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket costs.

And eliminating a-hundred-and-fifty-six-billion in wasteful Medicare subsidies to private insurance companies.

A difference that matters.

Obama (voiceover): I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message.

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Notes: According to the press release, the ad...

"highlights the key difference between President Obama and Mitt Romney’s plans for Medicare: the President has worked to preserve it for seniors and future retirees, while Mitt Romney would end Medicare’s guaranteed benefits and turn it into a voucher program. In doing so, the Romney-Ryan plan could raise seniors’ health costs by up to $6,400 a year. President Obama’s plan, on the other hand, is preserving the program by rooting out fraud and abuse; lowering seniors’ Medicare premiums and out-of-pocket costs; and eliminating $156 billion in wasteful subsidies to insurance companies. The choice in this election for seniors and middle-class families is clear: we can either continue to move forward with an economy that’s grounded in a strong middle-class, or we can go back to the same top-down economic policies of the last decade that crashed our economy and punished the middle-class."

Copyright © 2012 Eric M. Appleman/Democracy in Action.