Elizabeth Warren Grills Trump's Health Nominee on His Efforts to Slash Medicare and Medicaid

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Source: Mother Jones

Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human won't say whether he agrees with the president-elect's campaign pledge to not cut funding for Medicare and Medicaid. Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.) faced pointed questioning from Elizabeth Warren during a Senate hearing Wednesday morning, as the Massachusetts senator tried to get a simple yes or no answer on whether the Trump administration still intended to uphold that promise.

Trump, who is often all over the map when it comes to policy issues, was remarkably consistent during the campaign when it came to his desire to leave Medicare and Medicaid untouched. But Warren had good reason to wonder whether that has changed, especially with Price slated to manage health care policy in the new administration. Waving around a copy of legislation Price proposed as chair of the House budget committee, Warren said the bill included large cuts to the pair of health programs over the next decade: $449 billion in Medicare cuts and more than $1 trillion for Medicaid.

Read more: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/01/elizabeth-warren-tom-price-medicare-medicaid

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That's $1-1/2 trillion combined? I've also been watching the hearings for other nominees. They all appear to be scary.

Video Here:

http://www.snappytv.com/tc/3710310

[tenorly]

1. Oh, well. The money for billionaires to stuff into Cayman accounts has to come from somewhere.

Quit bashing the makers! *sarcasm thingy*

[BumRushDaShow]

2. It's

"The Job Creators™".

<--- including this

[tenorly]

3. Why, of course!

I stand corrected!

Just look at all those jobs they so graciously and generously create:

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Sweatshop workers at lunch. Grateful and happy.[/center]

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Private security squads - giving human rights abusers job security since, well, forever.[/center]

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Those dapper money launderers. An example for all humanity![/center]

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And last but not least, those highly-coveted escort jobs. Some of them even get to be First Lady![/center]

[BumRushDaShow]

4. He'll also need

someone to rip out the WH basketball court and replace it with this for the entertainment job prospects -

[tenorly]

6. Ha!

And after a few visits to the new "facility," if the CIA doesn't get him a massive heart attack most surely will.

[Tanuki]

8. The last picture reminds me of Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys,

whose character was also a former paid escort but who was now a lounge singer and not a soon-to-be first lady.

[tenorly]

9. Wither the thought!

My guess is that Trump liked the movie, and had it in mind when he asked her to pose like that.

But alas, Susie (the Pfeiffer character) ran circles around the slut from Slovenia. If I remember correctly, she was a real talent who did things her way - and without gold-digging.

[Tanuki]

10. Susie was also honest about her past. eom

[tenorly]

11. Exactly.

Madame Trump, on the other hand, has decided to take a wife-of-the-dictator approach toward anyone who dares dig into her very checkered past.

[cstanleytech]

5. If the GOP tries to push this through then the Dems might want to try and link similar cuts to the

benefits Congress gets as well as to the VA.
I know it would suck for those dependent on the VA but attaching such a poison pill might be the only way to stop it from happening.

[davekriss]

12. Curious, how can we do that?

How is that done when we are in the minority in both the House and Senate?

[area51]

7. The GOP

is the ultimate death squad.