Subject to changes.
Doesn’t this seem rather one sided especially in a time of high debt and deficits? It all looks irresponsible and short-sighted to me.
And we have yet to address Social Security and Medicare solvency. Where will that money come from?
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Al Lindquist
good work Jack–ever wonder why these aspects of the law were never pointed out to taxpayers–what you get from the left are lies, lies, and more lies.
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Where’s Elon When We Need Him?
Long past time to reform Medicaid, and Medicare!
From news reports: “… After a two year investigation, the U.S. Department of Justice announced what it called the largest coordinated health care fraud takedown in its history — 324 defendants charged in sweeping schemes spanning $14.6 billion in intended losses, from shady addiction treatment clinics to medically unnecessary skin grafts and catheter orders. It’s a massive win for taxpayers. But it’s also a glaring reminder that the U.S.’s fragmented, opaque and under-regulated health care system is fertile ground for fraud — whether it’s orchestrated by international criminal rings or by well-dressed executives at some of America’s largest health insurers. …”
Look no further than Congress to identify the true culprit, and, the only opportunity for a solution – and it surely isn’t some Medicare for All system.
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My favorite are the dire predictions of 12 – 17 Million Americans who will lose their Medicaid coverage. OK. No one scaled back the requirements beyond Health Reform – when we had 45 – 50 or so million on Medicaid/CHIP, including one of every five seniors.
So, a senior who met the low income requirements in the past is likely to continue to meet those requirements in the future – as they did not change.
What will change, however, is that 12 – 17 Million Americans who have Medicaid today will have to enroll in taxpayer subsidized exchange coverage (or their employer sponsored plan). And, when President Biden’s extra-Health Reform subsidies expire at the end of 2025, they will have to pay the appropriate premiums that were part of President Obama’s Health Reform bill.
So, you now have Democrats complaining that President Obama’s Health Reform bill is somehow inadequate when it comes to providing access to health coverage.
How soon people forget that one of the main reasons why we have nearly $2Trillion a year in annual deficits was because of Health Reform – the extention of Medicaid and Taxpayer subsidized exchange coverage without any significant targeted specific new revenues. Similar to Bush II and Medicare Part D, taxpayer sibsidized Rx coverage, without the addition, specified, targeted new taxes / funding source.
So much crap.
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AL LINDQUIST
What are some significant cuts to Medicaid? I’ll take 3.
“Irresponsible and short sided”–tell you what let’s go back 10 months and adopt the plan for solvency the other folks had–why not tell us what the current alternative plan is by the opposition party—let’s see what makes more sense.
Maybe if we made the millionaires and billionaires pay their “fair share” that would go a long way to solving our problem. What is the #? 45% + pay no federal income tax?? Oh–what is the “fair share”?
10-year projections by CBO–sure and let’s do the same for the DOW–did they project covid and the effects financially? The effects of the 2008 financial crisis when they did 10-year in 2000?
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Depends on how you want to describe it. I wouldn’t say tax cuts for the rich when talking of overtime and tips even though I don’t understand the need to give those items favored status. I refuse to say tax cuts when extending the tax status we’ve had since 2017. This is merely continuing the status quo. It would be a tax increase if we went back to a higher tax period.
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One more thing I noticed was the Medicaid proposals. The snippet I read yesterday looked suspiciously like the changes made to the old AFDC program in the mid 90s. The addition of work and/or job training requirements to continue receiving it. Back then there were descriptions of welfare mothers lying on the sidewalks if the TANF bill passed. It did and life went on. The recipients adapted to the work and job training requirements. I can only say I suspect it will be the same this go round. Significant cuts remain to be seen as described.
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