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I'm just hoping like heck the Senate stops this murderous crap cold and Republican buttwipes pulling this bs pay a huge price at the polls for decades to come.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trumpcare-raids-medicare-to-enrich-the-wealthy-and_us_58c994ace4b0537abd956d5f
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While the media has highlighted the impact on Medicaid and on seniors not yet on Medicare, few have spotlighted the roadmap of destruction obviously in the works for Medicare itself. Trumpcare plants the bomb, where it will remain until the Republicans detonate it later this year and blow up Medicare.
The Republicans have certainly telegraphed their ultimate plans. Speaker Paul Ryan has been advocating the dismantling of Medicare for years. Consistent with that, as soon as the election ended, Ryan announced his intention to enact 2017 legislation ending Medicare. Ryans plan would force all seniors and people with disabilities onto the private market, arming them only with inadequate voucher coupons. So, that 64-year-old spending more than half her income on her premium will get no reprieve from her cat-food diet when she turns age 65.
Trumps Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Tom Price, has also been clear about the Republicans plans. Against all evidence, Price claims that nothing has had a greater negative effect on the delivery of health care than the federal governments intrusion into medicine through Medicare. Of course, the exact opposite is true. Medicare saves lives. It allows seniors and people with disabilities, those with the greatest health needs, to obtain life-saving health care.
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Now heres the ticking time bomb: Trumpcare raids Medicare of $117 billion and puts it into the pockets of the rich. That raiding of Medicare, along with a provision that increases Medicares hospital payments by $43 billion, paves the way for further destructive action later in the year.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)fighting them in whatever we our abilities and finances allow. It may not even be much but we have to try and fight this.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)We have an indivisible group but our rep is....drum roll...........
Chris shit fuck Collins
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Our rep is Paul Ryan apostle, Elise Stephanik. I'm hoping that if the Dems could get a hard hitter candidate and funds they might be able to take her out next election. Her district has a lot of low income, elderly and disabled in it that are going to be very badly hurt by these cuts/changes but they need to hear the facts, not the bs R talking points. The challenge is going to be stopping the damage BEFORE is done and people are harmed.
Being in the boonies I don't think we have an indivisible group near us but I'll check to see if maybe they have a forum or such online.
Oh and you're welcome for the encouragement. IMO we all need to stick together and make ourselves heard not just for ourselves but for those with no voice at all.