A growing number of Americans are not supportive of Republican Congressman Paul Ryan’s long-term budget-cutting plan, a new Rasmussen survey reveals.
The Ryan plan ends Medicare and replaces it with a voucher paid to private insurance companies. The plan also forces seniors into a more expensive private plan in 2022, doubles the cost to seniors and lowers federal Medicare cost by shifting more of the burden on to seniors.
‘The survey finds that 34% now oppose Ryan’s proposal, up from 27% in the previous survey, one month ago. A sizable 40% still don’t know enough about the plan to have an opinion of it. Unchanged from one month ago, are 26% of likely voters who continue to favor the budget proposal which Ryan wrongly claims will cut federal spending by $4 trillion over the next decade.
By an almost two-to-one margin, Americans don’t like Ryan’s proposal for tackling spiraling Medicare costs. Just 21% of all voters favor the plan that will change Medicare costs. Thirty-nine percent (39%) oppose that plan
The survey of 1,000 Likely Voters was conducted on April 29-30, 2011 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.
