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So I was researching the news Trump was willing to break the promise he made in 2015 not to touch Social Security and Medicare and I stumbled across this:
The Trump budget is breathtaking in its degree of cruelty and filled with broken promises. Trump’s budget pays for his huge tax break to the top 1% by cutting $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, $845 billion from Medicare and $25 billion from Social Security. Make no mistake about it: Trump’s budget is a massive transfer of wealth from working class families to the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations in America.
The proposed cuts are intended to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, according to the Trump Administration.
The hospital trade associations seem to have a very different perception and reduced reimbursement rates for uncompensated care and lower rates of reimbursement for outpatient departments are “arbitrary and blunt and the impact on care for seniors will be devastating”.
Congress has the power of the purse and sorts it out during appropriations.
I don't know if its propaganda or not. He's being very dodgy about it. He was asked about entitlements and he said he'd be looking at them but at some time in the future. He's probably hoping to be reelected before he makes cuts. I really don't believe he'll keep his promise to not touch SS and Medicare.
His big money donors dont need SS and Medicare. They dont need insurance either. Of course their goal is to get rid of it, and the billionaire class set policy.
The proposed cuts are intended to reduce waste, fraud and abuse in Medicare, according to the Trump Administration.
The hospital trade associations seem to have a very different perception and reduced reimbursement rates for uncompensated care and lower rates of reimbursement for outpatient departments are “arbitrary and blunt and the impact on care for seniors will be devastating”.
Congress has the power of the purse and sorts it out during appropriations.
This is my understanding of it. When you see all these "at no cost to you" commercials selling some Medicare approved power chair or hearing aid, many times these things are billed to Medicare at enormous profits when the retail price for the same item is much less, just to touch on one of the issues.
I don't see why reducing fraud and waste would be a bad thing in the hospital trade associations eyes? As a regular middle class insurance carrying worker I can hardly afford to get the care I need because the insured is bent over by the hospital recovering their losses from all those they are forced to provide free or reduced care for.
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