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John,
59 years ago today, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law. But if it’s up to Donald Trump and JD Vance, Medicare and Medicaid won’t get the chance to celebrate 60.
When Trump was president, he spent his first year trying to dismantle both programs and after that failed, he green-lit programs that privatized care for people who had chosen traditional Medicare.
Now, some of the richest corporations in America―health insurers and pharmaceutical giants―are funneling dark money into Super PACs to get another chance at destroying our earned benefits, including our Social Security system! If they succeed, they will take the one part of our health care system that works―traditional Medicare―and turn it into the bureaucratic nightmare of denials and delays that are the hallmarks of our profit-driven insurance system.
Can you donate $7 today to defend Medicare from these corporate attacks? We are mobilizing seniors and making sure they know the stakes of this election!
Medicare, along with Social Security, is the most successful domestic program in the history of our country. It is the most efficient, secure, universal, and fair way for Americans to have guaranteed health care in retirement or when disabled. Before Medicare, very few seniors had any health insurance at all, and the health insurance that those few had was generally inadequate and extremely expensive.
Medicare spends just a penny of every dollar on administrative costs. The rest is paid in benefits. Private health insurance can’t say the same―the Affordable Care Act limits insurance companies to using no more than 20% of patient premiums for administrative costs―and insurers were outraged by that new limit.
Seniors spend more than one-third of every Social Security check on medical expenses. We need to protect Medicare, not privatize it!
Can you donate $7 today to save Medicare from greedy Trump-Vance donors?
Thank you,
Michael Phelan
Social Security Works
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