Did ABC conveniently forget that the Democrats control the House?
Trump is negotiating.
CMS is overseen by HHS which has a trillion dollar budget and 80,000 employees.
I think some cuts can be made in that financial black hole.
There’s no doubt the president’s budget plan would whack away at federal spending on health care over the next 10 years, with an estimated $1.6 trillion reduction, including $451 billion less spent on Medicare and $920 billion less for Medicaid. (con’t)
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I interpret this to mean a reduction in planned spending increases rather than a reduction in an absolute amount.
This makes sense because Trump’s policies will reduce the growth of healthcare costs.
Remember kids, Slowing the Rate of Increase in spending is a CUT to these people. The article says it wants to reduce the RATE OF GROWTH from 5.4% to 3.1%, How about slow the growth to ZERO?
Go after the fraud & save $$$$
No matter....these budgets are made to be picked at.
To read later.
Don’t get all “concern troll” on this - ABC has no reason to try to discourage Trump voters.....right?
Aw, Geez, not this Push Grandma’s Wheelchair Over the Cliff sh** again!
We’d best get the facts, this will be a dem campaign point. And who is the anonymous “senior administration official”?
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See post #15.
The insurance industry is like a gigantic boa constrictor around you, and government health insurance is some sort of device to deliver just enough air to keep you alive and fresh.
What’s needed is to remove the big snake.
There are ways to lower costs:
Lower prescription drug prices.
Get hospitals and doctors to post prices.
Heavily promote preventative care.
Remove illegals from Medicaid.
Eliminate fraud.
Encourage companies to restore health care benefits in a robust economy with full employment.
Here we go with the “pushing granny off a cliff” BS again.
Let me guess. He’s cutting the rate of growth of medicare and medicaid spending, but not the actual amount to be spent, which will still go up, but at a lower rate. Same trick they tried in 1995, even ran ads with a catchy jingle and lots of scare tactics. They have no new ideas, just the same old BS.
That's about how much fraud there is in Medicare isn't there? I suggest a $10 billion dollar increase in DoJ funding devoted to going after fraud in Medicare and Medicaid.
Offer the perps they catch an option, pay back what you stole X2 or prison Xdecades.
Just like the old food stamp ploy declared by the Dems. He is probably just cutting the proposed percentage of increase, rather than the actual amount.
The Dems have built in yearly big increases in every area, and scream to high heaven if there is any move to freeze, or decrease the percentage of increase.
They view this as a cut.
We need to cut proposed increases in spending and actually pass a budget, which Congress has not done in may years.
This is the same playbook as in the 90s, with Gingrich and the Republican House. There ARE NO CUTS, there are reductions in the rate of growth. We need to do the same thing to every part of the Federal Government - reduce the rate of growth, until economic growth helps revenue to catch up to the spending.
A severe economic downturn is inevitable in the next few years if government spending isn’t curbed. The national debt is HUGE, as big as our GDP now and we have to pay interest on it. It’s getting more difficult for the Fed to stimulate the economy through bond purchases which they are now constantly doing. It used to be QE was only used in emergencies but now is constantly and stealthily implemented.