Posted on 05/05/2025 5:41:00 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer
NEW:
🚨 Trump’s Medicaid Promise Under Siege by RINO Saboteurs Like Paragon Health CEO Brian Blase @brian_blase 🚨
In a shocking betrayal of President Donald Trump’s unwavering commitment to America’s working-class families, and his promise to protect Medicaid, Paragon Health @Paragon_Inst CEO Brian Blase, a covert Never-Trumper masquerading as a MAGA loyalist, is spearheading a dangerous campaign to undermine the Republican Party’s midterm prospects.
2016 tweets from Brian Blase reveal he once said, “This is why we can’t have Trump.”
Along with bashing Trump on X, Blase has also complimented Barack Hussein Obama.
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Brian Blase doesn’t want you to know this, but he is propped up by millions of dollars from the Koch Network’s anti-Trump war chest. He is currently pressuring congressional Republicans to defy the President’s ironclad pledge to protect Medicaid—a program critical to the heartland voters who propelled Donald Trump to his election victories
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She seems distressed about 2016 tweets.
Trump has a veto pen.
Why do folks in those 3 states require Medicaid to survive?
From GPT.
42% of Medicaid recipients are adults. 36% are children.
10% disabled
10% 65+ (which generally means nursing home). Medicaid pays about 60% of nursing home expenses nationwide. That’s after the recipient spends down all assets.
The kids are on Medicaid because the parent (usually singular) has a no benefit job.
Hospital costs can be reduced by splitting most hospitals 50/50 between two companies.
Medicaid costs can be reduced by gently nudging people away from the program, discouraging ER use and making nursing home care cheaper. Start with $2/month Medicaid premiums and raise them by $2 for each month and each ER use. The time-based Medicaid premium amount to not exceed the monthly Medicare premium.
Premiums to be lowered by $1 for each week you subsequently have PPACA-scope private coverage.
Nursing homes could be two side-by-side eight-bed units primarily staffed by four people, with one night staffer for each unit.
Medicaid reform could be tied to State And Local Tax (SALT) relief.
Drugs costs could be reduced by multi-government buying and payment voucher issue to patients at 80% of average drug class (biologic large volume, biologic small volume, etc.) Canadian maximum price in lieu of purchase. Let the patients wave the voucher at Walgreen’s and CVS. The drug companies will gladly take $500 for a monthly prescription that might cost them $100.
Trump said he wasn’t touching Social Security/Medicare/Medicaid. He promised lowering income taxes and implementing/raising tariffs.
That is what he ran on, and letting business CEOs set terms usually ends up poorly.
Reagan’s original across-the-board 25% income tax cut with indexing was great. The 1986 “tax simplification”, not so much.
I think the promise was about medicare. Medicare we paid into. Medicaid is a welfare program for those who didn’t pay in. Same difference between social security (SS) and supplemental security income (SSI).
Move bureaucracies under a different umbrella.
TDS sufferers are eligible for a monthly disability check.
Dirty little secret. Medicaid funds given to states isn’t just used to fund medical services. States use the funds for multiple projects.
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