“In terms of the role of government, 10,000 people reached the age of 65 today. And yesterday. And tomorrow. And for the next 18 years, these men and women who have paid into Medicare and Social Security are now reaching retirement,” Sen. Dick Durbin said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this morning. “The obvious question for Mitt Romney is what would you do with these people?”

“The obvious question for Mitt Romney is what would you do with these people?” the Illinois Democrat said.

Durbin took a shot at Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan that would turn Medicare into a voucher system of subsidies rather than a single payer health care insurance plan.