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Minor Deity
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Trump budget proposes sizable Medicare cuts:
https://www.apnews.com/802d8f5...498e8fb868f57cb77852

Regardless of whether I agree with it, I am glad to see that cutting Medicare is being loudly proposed.


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Go to hell.
 
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Why do Republicans hate Medicare so much?

It’s one Federal program that actually seems to work pretty well and it helps a whole lot of people.


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"I've got morons on my team."

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Most of whom vote Democratic if they vote at all.
 
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... and poor folk in the Appalachians who depend on it probably won't rank the issue high enough to disapprove of the overall GOP platform.
 
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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
Most of whom vote Democratic if they vote at all.
I’m curious about this. Most polls say seniors lean GOP, and Medicare recipients are seniors. How come most Medicare recipients vote Democratic?


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Go to hell.
Kindly elaborate ... who should “go to hell” and why.


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So his 2016 campaign included promises not to cut Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security.

Did he just hand the Democrats their message for 2020 on a platter? And will they realize the gift and manage not to screw things up?

Or is he just holding these programs hostage and using them as leverage to get money for his damn wall?


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https://www.vox.com/policy-and...p-budget-health-care


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"I've got morons on my team."

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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
Most of whom vote Democratic if they vote at all.
I’m curious about this. Most polls say seniors lean GOP, and Medicare recipients are seniors. How come most Medicare recipients vote Democratic?


You said Medicare. My brain read Medicaid.
 
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Trying to think this through. It seems like the cut to providers only makes sense in the context of a larger health plan (like the ACA) which will ensure that costs are shared, and make health care plans competitive (at least in theory in the health care marketplace). But Trump/GOP has also gutted key aspects of the ACA, such as mandatory insurance. So what is to prevent the providers from simply passing those costs on to the consumer in the form of either higher premiums, higher copays or lower coverage percentages?

In other words, the environment is different now. The same cut to providers that Obama made is in a completely different context now. It's not necessarily the same.
 
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Originally posted by Daniel:
Go to hell.
Kindly elaborate ... who should “go to hell” and why.


Sure. Anyone who wants to cut Medicare can go to hell. Because I said so. Because I can. Any other questions?
 
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Like death and taxes, pretty much everyone in the country is going to end up dealing with Medicare.

Why not make it great?


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Originally posted by Piano*Dad:
Most of whom vote Democratic if they vote at all.
I’m curious about this. Most polls say seniors lean GOP, and Medicare recipients are seniors. How come most Medicare recipients vote Democratic?


All I know is my mother says that as long as she and cohorts were allowed to vote* everybody she knows in assisted living and her prior residence, were Republican.

Maybe the facilities' being somewhat upscale, made a difference.

However, this doesn't answer your (good) question, Ax. If they were talking about Medicaid, it would be different.

In fact, what th-??
Really does sound like Trump and cohort are actually out to kill off his voting opposition in a slightly more civilized way than most despots.


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