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TAKING AWAY OUR HEALTHCARE: Trump's Budget Calls for Cutting $845,000,000,000 from Medicare
The Trump administration wants to cut hundreds of billions of dollars from the Medicare budget, all while giving billionaires and giant corporations huge tax breaks with the GOP Tax Scam. This is immoral.
The budget released by the White House [in March 2019] calls for a sizable reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that Trump has consistently promised to protect.
Total spending on Medicare, the popular health-care program for the elderly.... would be reduced by about $845 billion over 10 years.
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.
Trump flat out lied and deceived. Shocking.
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
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 insure more people and reduce overall health costs.
Chip Kahn III, president of the Federation of American Hospitals, which represents more than 1,000 for-profit hospitals and health systems, said the budget “imposes arbitrary and blunt Medicare cuts. . . .The impact on care for seniors would be devastating.”
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