House Leadership Recklessly Pursues Privatization of Medicare in Budget Process
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Undermining Medicare has been a long-held dream of fiscal conservatives. Their "premium support" proposal is a thinly veiled scheme to allow traditional Medicare to "wither on the vine," as former House Speaker
Privatization is being sold as "improving customer choice," but based on the way current
"Weakening Medicare is a politically perilous path for
Meanwhile, the National Committee strongly condemns other priorities of the 2018 budget resolution. The marked-up House spending plan will likely include:
*Painful cuts to Medicaid, which seniors depend on for long-term care services and supports.
*Reaffirmation of a House rule that puts 11 million
*Caps on non-defense spending that will likely lead to devastating cuts to Older Americans Act programs and the
*Reductions to SSI (
The savings from these devastating cuts will likely go to tax breaks for the wealthy. Last year's House Republican tax plan gave 99.6% of its benefits to the top one-percent of earners, with virtually nothing for middle and low income Americans.
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