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Do you mean the plan to force drug companies and hospitals to charge less
Yes I do.
Why don't you?
I don't see that, this was just a pure 10% cut I don't see that he put any thought into addressing prescription or hospital cuts making them more efficient, that would require thinking and planning.
Anyone who read the few sentences that MotherJones wrote would have noticed they offered no links or real information- just more Orange Man Bad!!!
This is what PolitiFact says ... and they are certainly not Orange Man Fans.
” It’s impossible to apportion how much of that is Medicaid because we don’t know how states will spend their new grant," Goldwein said. "But I think it’s somewhat misleading to suggest Medicaid is being cut by $1.4 trillion when a large chunk of that money is really being reprioritized rather than eliminated."
The proposed Medicare savings would have meant little to no change for beneficiaries, according to Paul Van de Water, a senior fellow at the left-leaning Center on Budget Policy and Priorities, a Washington, D.C., think tank.
Trump’s budget would have reduced reimbursement rates for services, lowering the overall cost. The lower rates would not have changed the care received by people on Medicare, he said. Rather, it would force providers to charge the government less for services.
"The Medicare cuts were for the most part reductions to payments to providers, and that latter category is something members of Congress from both parties have been working on for decades," Van de Water said. "The reason the U.S. spends more on health care is that we end up paying much more to providers than other countries."
Pay attention here .... no cuts to care or service to Seniors.
Cuts are to corporations... you know, those filthy Rich that Leftists complain about.
This is mostly about lowering Drug costs- I’m now getting Prescription coverage and other services I didn’t get last year. Trump is focused on lowering costs, not reducing service or care. Don't get suckered in an Echo Chamber.
Reality is that the Leftists done want to “cut Medicare” - they want to end it and replace with an unknown Pie in the Sky new program. Medicare is on life support now, imagine what the Leftists will do when they take it away and go to a new unproven system.
Haven’t we already done that with the failed ObamaCare?
Your comments in colored text were from a discussion about a proposal from 2018, this is 2019. You might want to see if the proposals now are the same as then, dontcha think?
Where I live, the Free Market cost of open-heart surgery is $13,000 but the hospital monopolies charge $26,000 to $42,000.
That's because they're monopolies.
Now, because of differences in Cost-of-Living, the Free Market cost to you might actually be $9,000 or it might be $17,000, but the point is everyone pays far too much, because hospitals are monopolies.
You can reduce payments to the hospital monopolies.
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They are monopolies because they dominate the market in a given area. How will your plan work, are people in areas with high healthcare costs like Texas going to be told to a hospital in Arkansas for their hernia surgery?
Try finding a doctor that takes medicare now. No I don't support the cuts. Take from the poor and give to the rich seems to be Trump's mantra.
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