Southern Illinois Congressman Bill Enyart is blasting House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's budget plan.
Enyart (D-Belleville) says the proposal would kill Medicare, and in turn raise healthcare costs for seniors and future retirees.
He says Ryan's budget creates a voucher program - something he adamantly opposes:
"Our seniors don't need a healthcare coupon, they need healthcare. They need the ability to choose their own doctors. They need the ability to have the prescription drug program, to save the billions of dollars that program saves. They need to have that donut hole closed, which was closed. They need access to wellness visits - the wellness visits that save us money."
Enyart took to the House floor on Wednesday to voice his opposition to the proposed Medicare cuts. The Belleville Democrat says this plan breaks a promise to seniors, which he says he won't do.
Enyart says budgets have been cut - and the nation's deficit reduced. He says the way to bring revenues back into the budget is by building the economy, not cutting services.
