Paul Ryan already benefited from Social Security survivor benefits after his father died when Ryan was a teen.   Those full monthly Social Security checks became his ticket to a college education,  and then, via education, his later rise to the congressional budget committee.  Ryan routinely dodges questions about why he wants to dismantle the very programs that gave him a leg-up in life and give the SS Trust fund to Wall Street gamblers.   Imagine what a disaster it would have been for many citizens if the SS Trust fund had been in the privatized hands of the big bankers when the economy was collapsing at the end of the Bush-Cheney years.   As for replacing Medicare with vouchers for private insurance,  that is just another giveaway to the sickness-and-death for profit insurance companies.  They are all about profit,  not health care...  high-risk seniors with preexisting conditions would ultimately be priced out of the market in spite of vouchers and left with nothing.