After Republicans successfully campaigned in last year's midterm elections partly by criticizing Democrats for cutting Medicare as part of Mr. Obama's health-care overhaul, they now propose to eventually privatize Medicare and turn Medicaid into a sharply limited block grant to states.
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This year, most have signed-off on limited block grants and a proposal to allow parents to spend taxpayer dollars on private tutoring, even by religious community groups, if their children attend failing schools.
He said the Republican proposals to shrink projected health spending, by eventually turning Medicare into a voucher system and Medicaid into a limited block grant to the states, would not curb the rise of health care costs.
In those three states and others, like Pennsylvania, where a disproportionate number of voters are older, Mr. Obama will hold his Republican rival responsible for proposals to replace Medicare with a smaller voucher system and to make Medicaid a limited block grant to the states.
Mr. Romney, the Republican nominee for president, now says the best way to rein in Medicaid is to turn it into a limited block grant to the states, shrinking it and ending federal oversight because, he said in the debate on Monday, "states run these programs more efficiently".
