If ever there was an absolutely ridiculous question, here it is. Do you want Medicare to help pay for health care for people, who paid into the system all their working lives, or do you want Trump’s Wall that he promised Mexico would pay for? In his new budget, the Tangerine Terrorist plans record deficits. He intends to cut $845 billion from Medicare. He wants over $8 billion for his wall.
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The budget released by the White House on Monday also calls for a sizable reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that President Trump has consistently promised to protect. Most of the trims relate to changing payments to doctors and hospitals and renewing efforts to ferret out fraud and wasteful billing — oft-cited targets by presidents of both parties….
…The spending plan calls for a cut of nearly $1.5 trillion in Medicaid over 10 years and for $1.2 trillion to be added for the block grants or per-person caps that would start in 2021. Under the new arrangement, states would gain far more freedom to set their own rules about how to cover the poor….
…The Trump budget also proposes to slow spending on Medicare, the federal program that gives health insurance to older Americans, by $845 billion over the next 10 years, in part by limiting fraud and abuse and payments to hospitals. During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump said he would not cut Medicare or Social Security, the retirement program for the elderly, but his budget last year also included a proposed cut of more than $550 billion to the program.
This year’s proposed budget would reduce the growth of various Medicare provider payments, including for care after hospitalizations, graduate medical education and hospital-owned physician clinics, according to Marc Goldwein, budget expert at the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. He said that with some of the Medicare “reductions” simply being moved to other parts of the budget, the cuts could be construed as between $500 billion and $600 billion.
The increasingly ambitious cuts to Medicare come at a time when many Democrats have embraced plans for expansions of Medicare, including a Medicare-for-all system that would increase federal spending on the program by as much as $30 trillion but that backers say would insure more people and reduce overall health costs….
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The major news sources are just starting to cover this, so no video from my usual sources is available yet, but I found an individual YouTube broadcaster that made a video worth watching.
Here is the Republican Party plan for senior citizens.
RESIST!!
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I just want to quote this comment on Daily Kos from “N in Seattle” (and of course the whole post and all comments are worth reading.)
Unreal!!! Absolutely sickening, and depressing to say the least. Our rights and privileges are being chiseled away piece by piece, by this greedy heartless pos.
tRump’s wall is 0% about national security and 100% about ego. He is willing to offer up thousands of senior citizens as human sacrifices on the altar of his narcissism. Fight back with everything you’ve got!
PROMISES MADE – PROMISES BROKEN
Twitler actually promised multiple times as a candidate that he would NOT cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid
But now …
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/12/18260271/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts
The cretin always – Always – ALWAYS LIES!
Thank goodness the Dems won the house. They will vote this despicable plan down.
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You are so right, TomCat, “If ever there was an absolutely ridiculous question, here it is.” It is a question that should never be asked, and by asking it in his most idiotic proposal to date, Drumpf is showing his desperation at being cornered from all possible sides and his inability to halt the further degradation of both his faculties and his ratings.
I think it would be a mistake if Americans, and Democrats in Congress specifically, took this proposal very seriously. It is clearly intended to divert them from what is going on in the real world and behind the closed doors of the White House. Ridicule his budget, then quickly throw it in the bin and look what he and the GOP are really up to, and continue with making and propagating solid plans like the New Green Deal.
What Lona said!
Truly despicable. I heard them mention that the low class bas*ard was thinking of sizable reduction for Medicare and Medicaid for his stinking wall last evening on the news.
He can take that thought and shove it up his flipping a*s.
May he rot in he*l for all of his evil thoughts and actions.
The Wall vs Medicare
Trump says that the wall is necessary to keep murders, rapists and drugs out of the country. He cites one off examples of undocumented persons killing a police officer or another citizen, but ignores the millions that have simply come to work, contribute to society, and never had any problems with the law. For this “protection”, taxpayers will have to pay $8.7 billion and likely more if Trump has his way.
To help pay for the unnecessary vanity wall, Trump will cut $845 billion from Medicare, that’s more than the initial $8.7 billion wall request. By 2030 according to one source, there will be 61 million baby boomers and 9 million others born prior to the baby boomer generation who will have reduced incomes and more health issues. There will be dwindling healthcare money and a greater population in need of care.
So with the numbers of people hurt by Trump and Republicans, perhaps we should put walls around them so that they cannot continue to rape and pillage the country. Those walls . . . they’re called prisons!
To me, the greater good is in Medicare, hands down!
Take away from the one’s that need it
Waste of Taxpayer’s money for a useless wall.
Just Like TRUMPY To want this!
The man-baby he is! wah wah
Thanks, Busy Hugs, and Amen to all!![04](https://www.7thstep.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/ark-wysiwyg-comment-editor/plugins/arkemoticonssk/img/04.gif)