‘Not on my watch’ -Biden blasts TFG over suggested cuts to SS, MDCR.
">150M ppl are covered by Medicare or Medicaid,, or ~45% of the US pop. MDCR covers primarily older Americans, while Medicaid covers primarily Americans with lower incomes.
The SS Admin says an average of almost 68M ppl get benefits monthly, about 20% of the US pop.
The vast majority of those SS recipients are age 62+."
CNBC platforms TFG, & he doubles down on his worst ideas, some that thankfully, weren't enacted & others, like tax cuts to corporations & the wealthy, added $8.4 trillion to the national debt:
Asked about Medicare, Social Security & Medicare programs and the nation's spending & deficits, Trump told CNBC: "There is a lot you can do in terms of entitlements in terms of CUTTING and in terms of also the theft and the bad management."
Another day, another Medicare SMS Scam. It's tempting to think everyone knows about these by now... but they wouldn't work as well as they do if that was true, sadly.
#Medicare users warned of medical supplies scam in #Ohio
Also, if you get a call saying the doctor ordered something and they want to confirm your information on file, don't confirm anything, even if they have the correct info.
If you aren't expecting something, contact your provider before giving any information to medical supply companies
Some legit companies have crooked resellers/independent sales partners seeking commission
Eric Adams is not a Democrat. He is trying to steer retired teachers from #Medicare into Medicare Advantage, which does not offer the same benefits and which is hard to get out of. He is doing so with the help of the teachers' union. Now, a group of teachers are campaigning against it and challenging the leadership. No more union/management partnerships. Unions have to be independent of management. #1u#NewYorkCityhttps://nysfocus.com/2024/02/26/medicare-advantage-uft-retiree-advocate
@LeftistLawyer do people remember when President plump defunded Social Security and Medicare?
At the end of 2020 he waived the payroll taxes that fund these things, and he was going to make it permanent if he was reelected.
And I’m kind of glad he did it because that was what convinced a couple people I know who were going to vote for him not to do it.
Unfortunately I think two of those people have probably switched back because they are angry at the drug shortages caused by Biden’s FDA & DEA.
But I think it’s important for all the people who have become disabled by Covid to remember that President plump literally defunded Social Security and Medicare at the end of 2020.
When anyone criticizes the US healthcare system, they always go after insurance companies. I'm not a fan of insurance companies, but they sometimes get too much of the blame because they're not always in control. Often, the hospital systems are also complicit or in some places, they're actually calling the shots.
The US healthcare system has some serious structural issues and paradoxically as it stands right now, everyone who's part of the problem is also part of the solution. In an ideal world, it'd be great to have a single payer system in the US, but the power dynamics are more complex than most people realize. Banishing insurance companies tomorrow might not produce the results people think it would.
It's not just a simple case of insurance = greed and hospitals = victims and I'm saying this as a former healthcare professional.
"Republicans and cable news pundits had claimed that Joe Biden would prove to be a doddering old man incapable of making it up the stairs to the podium— much less delivering a coherent speech.
"President Biden gave a muscular speech that directly challenged Trump, MAGA extremism, the denial of reproductive liberty to women, tax cuts for millionaires, and efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare. He challenged Republicans to stand up for Ukraine and condemn the insurrectionists of January 6."
The package totals ~$460B, a better-late-than-never agreement reached …after months of delays, negotiations & stopgaps that took the govt to the brink of a #shutdown mult times…. #Republicans said they hope to limit nondefense spending in fiscal yr 2024 to ~$704B, $40B less than fiscal yr 2023. #House & #Senate ldrs had already agreed earlier this yr to spend ~$1.7T in …discretionary spending, which includes domestic prgms & #military spending but not …prgms such as #SocialSecurity & #Medicare.
"In the first few days after the hurricane, patients showed up with bad bruises from escaping floodwaters or trying to fix their houses. People came to the hospital who had lost their medications when power went out, or they couldn't refill prescriptions. Weeks later, people started showing up with breathing issues because mold had started to grow in their flooded homes."