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Just a quick note about Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan, since I don’t really have enough detail to do the kind of wonky dive that I know everyone is dying for. It’s this: Ryan may or may not be the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful congressman on Capitol Hill, but everyone realizes that his Medicare proposal is basically just a PR document, right? It has zero chance of being enacted, and there’s pretty much zero chance of anything like it being enacted. It’s just a conversation starter, not a serious attempt to produce a workable piece of legislation.

Everyone does understand that, don’t they?

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