Slideshow: What Can We Learn about the Ryan Medicare Plan from German Experience?

The recently approved Republican plan for reform of Medicare, conceived by Representative Paul Ryan, proposes to replace the current single-payer, government-run Medicare system with one under which seniors would choose from a list of approved private health care plans, with the cost to be paid partly by the government and partly by beneficiaries. This slideshow compares the Ryan plan with the German health care system, which uses a similar system of competing private insurance options with cost split between beneficiaries and the government.

Keywords: Health care economics, Republican Plan for Prosperity, Paul Ryan, Medicare.