Steven G. Calabresi Professor of law, Northwestern University :
Barack Obama has cut $700 billion from Medicare and has diverted it to help pay for his new ObamaCare health insurance plan.
Paul Ryan, in contrast, would leave Medicare untouched for everyone who is 55 or older and would give new choices and options to Medicare recipients who are currently 54 and under.
The question for voters is why does Barack Obama want to make such brutal cuts in Medicare instead of reforming Medicare by expanding health care choices? When it becomes clear to voters that it is Obama and not Ryan who wants to cut Medicare, congressional candidates of both parties will put as much daylight as they can between themselves and Barack Obama.