By Daniel Strauss - 02/03/12 08:41 AM ET
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) accused any lawmakers promising not to touch
Medicare of being liars.
"Any politicians that stands up and says, 'We're not going to touch
your Medicare' is a liar," Coburn, who is famously blunt, said
Thursday night in an interview with Oklahoma's News on 6.
His comments come as Democrats plan to hit Republicans' plans to
change Medicare in their 2013 budget plan, which is expected to offer
the same changes to the program Republicans proposed last year.
Democrats successfully used the GOP budget to win a special House race
in New York last May.
Democrats hope to capitalize on those cuts again and repeat attacks
they made on House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan's (R-Wis.)
plan, which would change Medicare into a voucher system for Americans
under 55 now when they turn 65.
In January, Ryan suggested the reforms in his plan were likely to
reappear in the new plan.
"We haven't written it yet, but we're not backing off on the kinds of
reforms we've advocated," Ryan said at the GOP's yearly issues
conference in Baltimore.
Coburn, along with Sen. Joe Liberman (I-Conn.), proposed a plan last
summer that would cut more than $640 billion from Medicare over the
next 10 years, mostly by raising deductibles and other costs for
beneficiaries.
— This story was last updated at 8:58 a.m.
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