Friendly reminder, the left-leaning PolitiFact named this claim the “Lie of the Year 2011.”

BOXER: This is a giant nightmare. These are supposed to be the golden years. Well, the people who lose this will have lost the golden Medicare guarantee. I’ll tell you that. But here’s the final point. The Republicans say ‘Oh, if you had Medicare, don’t worry, you’re fine.’ Baloney. If you end Medicare, destroy it like they do over there, the Republicans, the people left in it are part of a dying program, a dying program that is being fazed out. Who is going to try to improve the quality of that program? It’s going to be like fixing an Edsel or fixing your typewriter. There is no more Medicare. It’s going to be a program that is dying, that is being fazed out, and that will hurt current senior citizens. So let’s be clear. The Ryan budget, the Republican budget, takes the Medicare promise and it shreds it, destroys it and it’s the end.