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Trump rips Dems embrace of Medicare for all: The centrist Democratic Party is dead
By Michael Burke - 10/10/18 07:19 AM EDT
President Trump on Wednesday attacked Democrats over their embrace of "Medicare for all," writing in an op-ed for USA Today that the plan would threaten seniors and likening the single-payer plan to radical socialism.
Democrats have promised that the Medicare for All plan would improve health-care benefits for seniors and other U.S. citizens. The plan would also expand Medicare to cover almost everyone, Democrats have said.
But Trump wrote that Democrats' preference for the single-payer health-care system shows that the "centrist Democratic party is dead."
"The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model Americas economy after Venezuela," he wrote.
The op-ed comes about a month ahead of November's midterm elections, when health care will likely be an important issue for voters.
"Every single citizen will be harmed by such a radical shift in American culture and life. Virtually everywhere it has been tried, socialism has brought suffering, misery and decay," the president added.
The op-ed also comes after Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made similar criticisms on Tuesday of Medicare for All, saying that it shows that the Democratic Party has gone off the rails."
HAB911
(8,932 posts)he can't spell much less string together that many words into cogent thoughts and sentences
Buns_of_Fire
(17,210 posts)colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Hopefully more and more non wack a doodle wingnut moderates figure this out. Quit giving massive tax cuts to corporations and people who dont need them. Stop paying gazillions on the Defense budget.
Do that and we could provide cheaper single payer health insurance to most everyone. And maybe more and more will figure out that a rising tide lifts all boats.
Oh and on immigration.....quit talking about white people as original inhabitants It isnt us we took it forcibly from the real Native Americans, killing them and breaking treaty after treaty.
David__77
(23,598 posts)I like socialisms chances in a contest of socialism versus Trump.
Johonny
(20,941 posts)If you elect Democrats you'll get universal health care like the rest of the industrial world, an education system not run by the guy that thinks the dinosaurs were on Noah's ark, and we might regulate industry again so you don't have to drink lead, mercury and eat soylent green.
Wow, I'll take any democrat actually willing to push this agenda!