House GOP plan would cut Medicare, Social Security to balance budget

...just as predicted.

Remember when the GOP had a conniption because Obamacare cut $500 billion from Medicare and extended its life for a decade longer?

Check out life expectancy in red states.Not good.Repubs do not give a rats ass who dies.They just don't give a shit.

Of course they don't care. Keep Americans scrambling to stay alive and they'll be too distracted to stop the corruption and grift in the government.

Don't forget, Medicare, SSI are not entitlements! They are funded with taxes paid by everyone working on the books. If they're going to cut these benefits, I want a refund on the taxes I've paid.

They are such irredeemable scum.

There is a special place in hell for wealthy people that try to take from the poor

If they do, they’ll be voted out at the following election. You don’t mess with old people’s Medicare and social security.

Haha...all of my deplorable father and his friends continually run to the doctor for this little thing or that, barely paying anything as they go. Me, as a teacher, I have crap health care and suffer through all the pains and ills.

This should change their mind on King Cheeto

Of course it's all a ruse. I'm in the health care world. Private insurance cannot come close to competing with Medicare. Medicare overhead cost is about 5% and private insurance overhead about 25%. So don't "buy" the competition lie. Essentially that is why the private insurance lobby killed Obama's single payer option years ago- they could not compete. Of course the GOP spun it the other way to say the private (for profit) health care insurance industry as is- and the ACA became a regulated private health insurance system- now being dismantled bit by bit by the GOP. Isn't the GOP great for America!

R5, you mean Medicare and SSD.

R9 is correct. Just keep that fact in the back of your mind next time you run into a Trumpieter that tries to claim a business can do it better than the government. The facts simply aren't true. Government takes 5% Private takes 25%. In what world does that make financial sense? Dont let them get away with that lie.

Of course private insurance takes 25%. How else can they afford to pay their execs 7 figure salaries, performance bonuses, stock options, first class travel expenses/private jets, reimbursement for doctor/pharmacy/dental copays and health/dental/pharmacy insurance deductions from their pay (since, by law, all health plans supplied by a company must be offered to everyone, there can't be a Cadillac plan for execs and a Dodge plan for everybody else), a regular defined, guaranteed pension, a company paid "summer house" (that no one else in the company gets to use), private school education for the execs kids and numerous other perks.

My mother had a group Medicare Advantage plan through Blue Cross. It was better than my insurance through my employer. The out of pocket max was a $1000 and then everything else for the year, including prescriptions, was free. I wish I could have that when I retire instead of traditional medicare.

[quote]The House Republican budget, titled “A Brighter American Future,” would remake Medicare by giving seniors the option of enrolling in private plans that compete with traditional Medicare

NO ONE who can already afford NOT to be reliant on Medicare in their old age is currently using Medicare. The Greedy Old Pricks have made sure of that by spending the past 40 years by slashing it to the bone at the state level, little by little.

The largest transfer of wealth from the poor and middle class to the wealthy that we've ever seen. Their own policies caused those trillion-dollar deficits because they wanted to reward their 1% donors. And now they want to pay for that by robbing the rest of the 99%.

The Democrats better be getting the ads ready. I don’t care if they actually hold votes or not, the fact that it’s being proposed by them is damning enough.

So many old, white people are going to die. And it looks like there aren’t the numbers of young white people to replace them. Oh my. They’ve earned this.

How come this isn't getting much attention? I can't find much in the way of details and people don't seem that outraged.

Republicans will never get cuts to SS and Medicare passed. Old, white people ( their base who vote) need the money to survive. Won't happen.

R5, your refund has been paid to the wealthy with the tax cut. Sorry kid, you're out of luck.

The Dems should seize the opportunity and tell all of the voters that the Republicans plan to cut SS and medicare in order to fund their tax cuts for the wealthy. Of course, being the laziest people in the world, they won't.

For all you Trump assholes who believed that the $1.5 trillion dollar tax cut that overwhelmingly benefits the richest and the corporations was a good idea, this is where the tax cuts are coming from, Medicare and other vital social programs.

the "balance the budget" thing is sleight-of-hand. head of the treasury in 1947 said we can make as much money as we want, and it comes from nowhere but the pen(will) of the government. if you believe taxes (and loans-also unnecessary and just a political tool) actually fund spending, just think of the military expenditures. those f35 contractors are not waiting for tax checks from Joe Blow to clear the bank. the whole thing is a massive hoodwink. read up on "sovereign money". or take a logics course.

also check "mmt". since the above search yields a lot about the recent Swiss vote and not the general theory.

[quote]If they do, they’ll be voted out at the following election. You don’t mess with old people’s Medicare and social security.

They'll time the cuts so that it doesn't effect anyone over fifty and is slowly taken away, in stages, from people under fifty until it's all gone when today's youth get old. It's the old 'boiling a frog' routine'.

R13, what would stop you from getting a Medicare Advantage plan or something similar? You do realize that those plans are supplements to Medicare, not replacements, right? Your mother still had Medicare and paid for it every month just like she paid for her Advantage plan. Why do you think you can't do the same?

Bump for Repugs ruining the entire fucking country.

This would really be the last straw.