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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP Will Move Medicare To Private System Via Coupons. Seniors Will Lose Care.
Because of pre existing conditions millions of seniors perhaps even present ones like myself will lose coverage. There is no guarantee that the GOP will NOT include seniors already getting Medicare in their new health care system.
GOP ready to cut billions from Medicare.
RKP5637
(67,102 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)The goal of the evil Rethug cabal is to reduce life expectancy across the board...except for the elites.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)your opinion, but if you have a link to this, please show. Looked everywhere, but found no basis for this statement. Thank you
MineralMan
(146,284 posts)I've heard nothing about any such plans. So, if you're saying this, you must have heard it somewhere. Share a link with us, please.
ananda
(28,856 posts)Last week House Republicans passed in committee a budget proposal that would replace the guarantee of future Medicare benefits with a voucher, and that would cut Medicare funding by $487 billion over the next decade. This attack on benefits for senior citizens is particularly misguided in a budget designed to pave the way for enormous tax breaks for the wealthy and for large corporations.
Converting Medicare to a premium support system, as the Republican budget proposes, would replace the programs guarantee of health coverage with a flat payment that beneficiaries would use to purchase coverage. In effect, it would turn Medicare into a voucher system that would erode the basic value of its benefits and leave seniors facing higher medical expenses.
Republicans claim that current seniors would be exempt from this change, but once the basic guarantee of Medicare is eliminated for some, it will be at immediate risk for all. Furthermore, a report from the Kaiser Family Foundation points out that premiums would likely rise for people on Medicare who are grandfathered if younger, lower-cost beneficiaries are enrolled in a new voucher program. An analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that a voucher plan could in fact raise premiums for those left in traditional Medicare by as much as 94 percent almost doubling what they currently pay.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)But I get your concern and we might as well accept that Medicare will be a political football during our lifetime. Fortunately, I suppose, is fact GOPers' fear they might have to be directly responsible for grandma/dad.