This is bogus. That is $880B over 10 years—or $88B a year.
Get all the illegals off and choke off the graft
How many are illegals on the program? Just look to any ER in a major city.
The question is not just a political one, but a moral one as well.
While I agree medical care should have been obtained in their home country, the fact remains they are the human in front of you. Perhaps we should be demanding payment from their country of origin.
Well, you make it sound like in Rand World, you agree to fund all the welfare.
Premiums starting at only $1 a month!
Going up by $1/month.
Get off the program for a year and we’ll restart again at $1/month.
Another possibility is to require drugs to be sold to state Medicaid programs at lowest industrially advanced country pricing.
Lowering nursing home costs would help.
Nursing homes might be two side-by-side eight-bed units, each run by a couple with some shared and some outside help.
Oh, I’m sorry, there’s no more new federal money student loans.
How will I pay for college?
Work in a nursing home for a year full-time and then part-time for four years.
There could also be new taxes:
10% on car payments, cellphone plans, utility bills, etc.
They would be withheld by the loan holder and utility and only sent to the IRS in the February following.
They would be credited back as soon as you provide yearly private coverage verification as created under the PPACA.
Fiscal data can be found here https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/federal-spending/#spending-categories
So take illegals off SS and medicare - stop the frivolous grants DOGE has found It really should not be hard to do all while leaving SS and Medicare ((for us citizens) alone
DOGE https://doge.gov/savings has found 150 billion so far Let them keep digging.
Never figured you were for socialized medicine, but here we are.
I’m not sure cutting qualified people (citizens) is the total answer. The one thing I think DOGE could do is implement a system where consistent repayment of fund spent on someone’s behalf are collected. No asset hiding, transfers within 5 years, banking checking and savings accounts, etc.
1) Fire Dr. Oz
2) Eliminate all restrictions on medical practice by physicians and surgeons
3) Make hospitals and "health systems" regulated public utilities or nationalize them.
4) Require health "insurance" to be catastrophic only and if independent insurance as a business is permitted require divestment from and medical or surgical related businesses.
That should about do it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/doge-claims-found-4-7-132620804.html DOGE claims it found $4.7 trillion in Treasury payments that are ‘untraceable’
so finding 850 billion without cuts should not be hard
Way back when Medicare/Medicaid were being enacted there were grey faced men in some of the headlines, the sort of men people took seriously, saying “This will bankrupt our country, It is inevitable.” I was in grade school and didn’t understand a lot but I wondered why these guys were saying this and the programs went ahead anyway. Well here we are…
End Medicaid, end Medicare and end Social Security and all welfare programs.... Phase them out in a reasonable matter. Individuals should be responsible for themselves not the government.
Yes I get SS and Medicare and that’s why I said phase them out. They were bad ideas.
The answer is it’s a misleading article that shouldn’t even be published here.
Some Rs are weak in the knee.
I dont care if they cut it in half and neither will the VAST majority of R voters
Pass Medicaid down to the states while eliminating the cap on the SALT deduction. The states will likely have to raise their own taxes to take on full Medicaid funding, and full SALT will make that easier. Also, eliminate the cap on deductions for private donations, so that private charities can take on more of the responsibility as well, if the states cannot.
Otherwise, we’re screwed.
Get the illegals and deadbeats off it and prosecute fraud.