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Reason Writers Around Town: Shikha Dalmia on the Least Screwy Health Care Option for Seniors

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After complaining bitterly that Republicans were scaring seniors by talking about death panels under ObamaCare, Democrats have unleashed their own scare campaign against RyanCare. One ad by a liberal outfit actually shows a Paul Ryan-look alike pushing an old lady on a wheel chair off a cliff. But when you get past the scare mongering on both sides, which plan would be better for seniors?

Reason Foundation Senior Analyst takes a look in her latest column at The Daily and concludes:

ObamaCare is the worst thing that could happen to seniors in their old age; inaction is the next and RyanCare is the least bad. As a senior in the making, if those were my only options, I would ignore Democratic demagoguery and take RyanCare in a heartbeat. ObamaCare, however, I'd avoid like the plague.

Read the whole thing here.