Hi,
A radical right-wing policy agenda put together by high-level GOP
operatives is scary — and it includes a plan to completely privatize
Medicare.^1
This plan is a clear attempt by Republicans to cut the social safety net
and make health care for seniors worse. It would also be a huge boon for
private insurers.
Republicans have been consistently trying to cut Social Security and
Medicare. Congress must protect public health care in America and block
all proposed cuts to Medicare.
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cuts!
ADD YOUR NAME
Last year, House Republicans released a plan to gut Medicare with an eye
towards privatizing insurance for all seniors.^2 The latest extreme plan
to completely privatize Medicare is an acceleration of what we know the
GOP wants: a social safety net that’s completely destroyed — that includes
Social Security too.
Unfortunately, private insurance corporations like UnitedHealth and Cigna
already have a huge, costly foothold in Medicare — last year was the first
time a majority of Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in private
Medicare Advantage plans. That’s a trend that Donald Trump helped advance
while president.
While Trump was in the White House, his administration emailed millions of
Medicare beneficiaries encouraging them to switch to private insurance
plans^3 which cost the government more money, are filled with fraud,
waste, and abuse, and deny care to patients.
We can’t let this trend continue and allow the GOP to destroy Medicare.
[ [link removed] ]Add your name: Tell Congress to protect Medicare, reject the GOP’s
privatization plan!
Thanks for taking action,
Joey and the team at Demand Progress
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Sources:
1. Rolling Stone, “Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare
— And Fast,” [ [link removed] ]February 5, 2024.
2. Semafor, “Republicans are talking entitlement cuts again, despite
Trump’s warnings,” [ [link removed] ]June 22, 2023.
3. Rolling Stone, “Republicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare
— And Fast,” [ [link removed] ]February 5, 2024.
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