Medicare Savings Should Be Used for Improving Medicare, Not Funding Obamacare

Attention, seniors!   Here is a simple proposal: Every dime of potential budgetary savings in the Medicare program should first be plowed back into the Medicare program to help ensure its solvency or secondarily be earmarked for debt reduction. Under no circumstances should Medicare be milked as a cash cow for other government programs, whether bulking up Obamacare subsidies, funding “climate change” initiatives, promoting taxpayer funding of abortion, or whatever narrow ideological obsession happens to be captivating congressional “progressives” at the moment. Now get this. In their frenzied attempts to…

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Trump declares Obamacare ‘dead,’ urges Democratic help for short-term fix – Reuters

Reuters Trump declares Obamacare 'dead,' urges Democratic help for short-term fixReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday declared Obamacare “dead” and “gone,” but urged Republicans and Democrats in Congress to craft a short-term fix of healthcare markets under the 7-year-old law that critics say he has …You Need To Read ThisTPM (blog) Trump claims 'Obamacare is dead' despite failure to repeal legislationThe GuardianPartisan clash on Obamacare raises specter of government shutdownWashington PostThe White House –Politicoall 734 news articles » us democrats – Google News

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Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare Again – New York Times

New York Times Trump to Scrap Critical Health Care Subsidies, Hitting Obamacare AgainNew York TimesAt the time, one senator told him that the Republican Party would effectively “own health care” as a political issue if the president did so. “Cutting health care subsidies will mean more uninsured in my district,” Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen …Donald Trump signs executive order to side-step Obamacare rulesThe Independent all 866 news articles » us politics – Google News

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As clock ticks, Republicans try to move ahead on Obamacare repeal – Reuters

Reuters As clock ticks, Republicans try to move ahead on Obamacare repealReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration and top U.S. Senate Republicans pushed on Tuesday for action on a bill to dismantle Obamacare, but time was running out and they were still hunting for the votes needed to pass their latest attempt to gut …US Republicans battle over 'last hope' healthcare billFinancial Times Latest GOP Effort To Replace Obamacare Could End Health Care For MillionsNPRObamacare Repeal, Thought Dead in July, May Be Revived in SenateNew York TimesBBC News –Scientific American –Observer-Reporter –Center on Budget…

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US Democrats urge full review before Senate vote on Obamacare attack – Reuters

Reuters US Democrats urge full review before Senate vote on Obamacare attackReutersWASHINGTON (Reuters) – Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on Monday demanded that lawmakers wait to find out the budgetary and healthcare impacts of a new, last-ditch legislative effort by Republicans to repeal Obamacare before voting on it.Democrats Urge Full Review of Republicans' 11th-hour attack on ObamacareScientific American After wins against GOP, Democrats scramble to rally troops for another Obamacare fightCNNDemocrats want to know how many people will lose insurance under new Obamacare repeal billCNBCPoliticusUSA –The Guardian –The Hill –Politicoall 373 news…

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