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Trump to GOP: Don’t touch Medicare or Social Security in debt ceiling fight

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Saturday, January 21, 2023 11:34 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


The ex-president has long viewed entitlement reform as a political loser. But his timing, now, is notable.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/20/trump-gop-medicare-social-sec
urity-debt-ceiling-00078731


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Former President Donald Trump issued a warning to Republican lawmakers on Friday: Don’t lay a finger on entitlement programs as part of the debt ceiling showdown with the White House.

“Under no circumstances should Republicans vote to cut a single penny from Medicare or Social Security,” Trump said in a video message.

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Republicans have vowed not to raise the federal government’s borrowing capacity unless Biden makes steep cuts to federal spending, potentially impacting social insurance programs like Social Security and Medicare. Trump’s video is a warning to his fellow party members not to go there. Instead, he suggests targeting foreign aid, cracking down on migration, ending “left wing gender programs from our military,” and “billions being spent on climate extremism.”

“Cut waste, fraud and abuse everywhere that we can find it and there is plenty there’s plenty of it,” Trump says. “But do not cut the benefits our seniors worked for and paid for their entire lives. Save Social Security, don’t destroy it.”


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Saturday, January 21, 2023 12:09 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


He should probably remind The People that the Democrats effectively stripped 19 Million Americans off of Medicaid with the 1.7 Trillion Omnibus bill passed in December too.

Don't let those 19 Million people forget who did that to them before 2024.

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Saturday, January 21, 2023 1:21 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Good advice to the GOP. I hope they heed it. Reducing Medicare or Social Security would be political suicide.

What they CAN do is reduce Medicare costs. Open pricing would help.

Have you ever read an "Explanation of Benefits"? I ddoubt it bc you don't have Medicare insurance. It reads like Alice in Wonderland.

FOR ILLUSTRATION PRUPOSES ONLY

We (The healthcare provider) are gonna charge $16,179.23 for something relatively simple
Medicare's accepted amount is $2873.01
Medicare will pay 80% of that $2298.40
Healthcare provider says "OK! We'll accept that!"
Remainder $574.60
Medigap (another supplementary insurnce) pays $558.10
Patient is responsible for $16.10

I mean seriously, how much $$$ is wasted on this clusterfuck paperwork? Who came up with that bogus figure of $16,179.23 anyway? Open pricing would promoet competition, as would open stats on hospital outcomes.


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If we did not MAKE someone poor - William Blake


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Saturday, January 21, 2023 5:37 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


The $16,179.23 number is made for idiots like me to pay before they've learned their lessons.

I got scammed once for good money by two con-men on speakers once, and then I got scammed by a hospital for 5 times that amount the second time. The only reason the hospital grift worked is because they're supposed to be reputable.

The hospital would have been completely fine with what medicare would have paid, but I gave them the full amount they asked for without fighting it, which at the time was half of the money I had to my name. It wasn't too long after that I started taking on credit card debt, but I was lucky enough to have been doing it at the time where they were giving out transfer free 0% balances for 12 to 24 months for people with credit like mine, and by the time I was able to pay what at one point peaked at $6k of credit card debt off, I had only paid less than $125 in interest.

It's the only credit card interest that I've ever paid in my life. And I've gotten that back 20 fold from those fuckers through their sign up bonuses since then. Not only getting that interest back, but getting most of that hospital grift money back too.



Yeah. I know what an explanation of benefits is. I can hear my mom's voice saying that line right now since she probably said it a thousand times while I was growing up.

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Thursday, April 6, 2023 8:59 AM

JAYNEZTOWN


The bond market is flashing a storm warning for the US economy, says Wall Street analyst Jim Bianco

https://www.msn.com/

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