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HERE'S WHAT WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT RATHER THAN NANCY PELOSI AND ILHAM OMAR

House Democrats blast Trump's 

proposed healthcare cuts

By: Joan McCarter
Daily Kos
13 March 2019

House Democrats made it absolutely clear to the nation's top health official, Alex M. Azar II, that the budget the administration put out Monday is dead on arrival. The House doesn't have to vote on the budget. It's purely the president’s wish list and one part of that wish list is particularly troublesome to them: the Medicaid cuts.

Trump’s budget would cut nearly $780 billion from Medicaid over the next 10 years and reduce the growth of the program by $1.4 trillion by repealing the Affordable Care Act and Medicaid expansion and replace that coverage with an inadequate block grant. What is particularly problematic for House Democrats is that the administration is attempting to implement the block grant program with a back door maneuver. The administration has signaled that it will approve waivers to states to replace the current open-ended federal commitment to states with a lump sum of money in the form of a block grant. That would basically cap payments to states, payments that would not keep up with rising costs of health care. That means fewer people would be covered, a reality Azar admitted to in a hearing Monday.

He told lawmakers that under the administration's proposed waivers there is no guarantee that everyone who now has Medicaid would keep it. "You couldn’t make that kind of commitment about any waiver." Rep. G. K. Butterfield (D-NC), said that "block-granting and capping Medicaid would endanger access to care for some of the most vulnerable people"—seniors, children and the disabled. Despite the fact that a Republican Congress rejected that plan in 2017, Azar told the help subcommittee of the House energy and commerce committee that HHS has the ability to grant such waivers to states that want them. "You just wait for the firestorm this will create," Butterfield told Azar, reminding him more that more than 70 million low-income people—more than 20 percent of Americans—get their health care through Medicaid.

The budget proposal to cut more than $800 billion from projected spending on Medicare also drew heat from lawmakers, as did the proposal to cut federal payments to hospitals that primarily serve low-income communities. New York Democratic Rep. Eliot L. Engel said that the $26 billion in cuts over 10 years, would be devastating to these safety net hospitals. Azar dismissed his concerns saying, "I don't believe any of the proposals will impact access to services."

The reality is this administration wants to take health care away from the people Republicans believe are unworthy—the poor, the disabled, the elderly. With the Democratic House, they're going to have a harder time doing that but it's clearly still their primary agenda when it comes to health care.

NOTE: In the daily Breaking News Headlines that Trump generates whether it's his latest tweets about how complicated planes are to fly or how Democrats hate America, we tend to latch onto this crap as does the news media when there are much more important issues to discuss.  Like the two crashes of Boeing's 737 MAX'8's which the Trump Administration finally grounded after the entire European Union, China, Australia, India and Canada had already taken this action.  But nothing is more important than where our tax monies are spent by the Federal Government.  Where they are spent each year is determined by the President who proposes an annual budget and Congress who votes on the budget and passes it into law.

This one, Trump's fiscal 2020 budget, takes dead aim at our social support network, Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.  The cuts to these vital programs I've posted about recently are devastating.  Yes, it's already a forgone conclusion that Congress will not pass Trump's budget as it stands, but it's curious about how Trump came to the conclusion that ripping our social security net to shreds came about.  Who was advising him?  Satan, perhaps?  Or was it Steven Miller who, when Trump proposes a child snatching immigration proposal or some other draconian attack on America's health and well-being, is behind it.  I'm not sure that Miller has the chops to actually craft a budget proposal but I'm quite sure he is delighted with this one. Or maybe it was Lester Kudlow - a pseudo-economist -who's only qualifications for his job as Economic Advisor was as a pundit on Fox News.

The "need" for the cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security have arisen because of a self-generated situation, much like Trump's Southern Border Emergency, as a direct result of the Trump/Ryan Tax Reform Act or whatever the hell it was called.  When Congress - Republicans - pass a massive tax cut that severely reduces tax revenues to the U.S. Treasury (and this retrograde tax legislation did exactly that) then the gap must be made up somewhere else.  There are many ways to increase Federal revenues - increasing taxes on big businesses, taxing Wall Street transactions, closing loopholes - without shredding the nation's welfare safety net.

Sure, it's easy to cut Medicaid.  After all, Medicaid helps folks who need food stamps or supplemental assistance to buy food for their kids.   I mean, who cares if these lazy, good for nothing blood suckers on the American economy go without.  But as I pointed out previously, the majority of Medicaid  recipients are elderly.  White elderly folks, as a matter of fact.   Not African Americans as is so often alleged.  In fact, it's our grandmothers and grandfathers if not our mothers and fathers who, most likely impoverished by our truly criminal health care system, who live on the margins in their own homes or in elderly care facilities.   The cruelty, nay the inhumanity, of cutting off these folks lifelines is unspeakable.  Beyond words.

I doubt that this will be remembered come next year but it should.  Democrats must make folks remember that Trump tried to gut our Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security.  Let's make sure that we remind them that Trump was not their friend but only worked for the same big business and influential lobbyists that they've been complaining about. 

Have A Good Day! 

 

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