Paul Ryan has placed a time bomb in his Trumpcare package. The following is from HuffingtonPost:
Trumpcare raids Medicare of $117 billion and puts it into the pockets of the rich. That raiding of Medicare, along with a provision that increases Medicare’s hospital payments by $43 billion, paves the way for further destructive action later in the year.
Given how much seniors love Medicare, once this is widely known, this should be the stake thru the heart of Trumpcare (as if Trumpcare or Ryan either has a heart).
The lead-up to the actual destruction is not hard to foresee: Ryan, Price, and their co-conspirators will claim that they have to “save” Medicare because it is going broke even faster than before Trumpcare was enacted. They are like a banker who robs a homeowner-client, and then forecloses because the money the homeowner was planning to use to pay the mortgage was stolen.
It’s not just 14 million or 26 million who will be screwed out of their health insurance:
Roughly 1 in 5 Americans receives health care coverage through Medicare, including 46.3 million seniors and 9 million Americans with disabilities. These are benefits that beneficiaries have earned, paid for, and deserve. Despite the fact that Medicare covers those in the population with the highest health care needs, it is far more efficient than its private sector counterparts.
If the word can be gotten out to those 46.3 million seniors that Trumpcare is coming for their Medicare, Trumpcare is dead. And with it, hopefully Paul Ryan’s sociopathic political career.
