The Ryan-Romney budget plan chooses to call the picked over bone its throwing to our seniors to purchase health insurance a "voucher." They give themselves too much credit. The term "voucher" often connotes a record of a completed transaction. It gives the impression that the voucher -- alone -- could be exchanged for health insurance. And we know that ain't happening.
In fact, what Ryan-Romney offers is a coupon, not unlike the coupons that seniors (and others) currently clip religiously out of the Sunday paper in order to make ends meet. Just one more coupon.
Is that how we treat our grandparents? We give them coupons?
This is just a suggestion, but it seems to me that Frank Luntz would never allow his party to accede to our wording on an issue of such importance.
Stop calling them vouchers. That's their word. They are coupons.