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Last week, Tim Pawlenty delivered a speech to a group of health insurance executives. The kicker: He was paid to do it. After endorsing the Ryan Republican plan to voucherize Medicare and give insurance companies a windfall payday, Tim Pawlenty cashed their check.

Today in San Francisco, Tim Pawlenty is speaking to a group of health insurance executives, and he’s getting paid to do it.

In yesterday’s New York Times, columnist Paul Krugman described the letter written to Comcast by the GOP urging television stations to stop running a TV ad opposing the Republican plan to “end Medicare.” The GOP argues that their plan would create a “new, sustainable version of Medicare,” and call the charges the ad makes against them a lie.

This new online tool shows the real cost to seniors under the Republican plan – a plan that will end the Medicare benefits seniors rely on. In nearly every state, seniors would pay almost twice the out-of-pocket expenses they currently pay.

Check out this graphic that shows the cost shift to seniors under the Republican plan – a plan that would end Medicare as it currently exists.

Tuesday's special election in New York’s 26th Congressional District wasn’t an ordinary election – it was a referendum on the Republican plan to end Medicare as we know it. In one of the most conservative districts in New York, voters rejected the centerpiece of the Republican plan for our country.

The House Republican budget has been about as well received as a flat tire, and Speaker John Boehner knows it. In an attempt to spare the GOP from the public outrage over their plan to end Medicare as we know it, Speaker Boehner claimed it “transforms Medicare into a plan that's very similar to the President's own health care bill.” Sadly, he couldn’t further from the truth.