![]() The goal is, according to the order, to “encourage more robust price competition, and otherwise to inject market pricing” into Medicare fees. The order directs HHS to study raising the prices paid by Medicare “to more closely reflect the prices paid for services in and the commercial insurance market,” which reimburses providers at a far higher rate than Medicare does. Hospitals and health care providers would also win big. ![]() If this fight were fought on the merits and the facts, Trump would have no hope. If Americans could realize the benefits of single-payer health care, and discover how different a life free from the worry of crippling health care debt could be, Republicans would not be able to persist in their promotion of the grim, race-to-the-bottom status quo. By pitting Americans against immigrants, and by telling seniors their Medicare would be under threat, Trump is banking on division and discord as a way to defeat a plan that would actually be beneficial for everyone except the very wealthiest. Signing an executive order-which did not mention immigrants at all-before the assembled, Trump promised that he “will never allow these politicians to steal your health care and give it away to illegal aliens.” Democrats, he said, “want to raid Medicare to fund a thing called socialism.” Into this category he placed both single-payer health care alongside the “so-called public option.” Nevermind the fact that the latter policy bears as much relation to socialism as Trump does to a rose petal.Īs hoary as the old-timey Red-baiting might seem, this executive order, and the rhetoric Trump deployed to promote it, is a distillation of his administration’s strategy to defeat the movement for single-payer. You would think it might get boring, blaming everything on foreigners and commies, but its political utility is tried and true. Please, oppose the TRUST Act and any legislation that could rob Americans of their hard-earned Social Security and Medicare benefits.Last week, at a huge and frightening retirement community in Florida known as The Villages, Donald Trump promised to protect seniors from two of the most menacing monsters lurking under their beds: Immigrants and socialism. ![]() People 50+ have faced enormous consequences from the global pandemic, and we will not tolerate any cuts to programs that are critical to our health and income. I expect my elected representatives to be careful stewards of these programs. And Medicare guarantees Americans 65+ much-needed health coverage. Across age groups and parties, the American public overwhelmingly supports Social Security. Social Security is the largest source of retirement income for most Americans and provides nearly all income for one in four seniors. This is unacceptable and unfair to all Americans who pay into and count on these programs. If only seven members from the Rescue Committees approve bill language, it would be fast-tracked in the House and Senate, with no allowed amendments from the rest of Congress. ![]() The TRUST Act would establish small Rescue Committees to propose changes for Social Security and Medicare. Message Body I’m your constituent and an AARP member, and I’m asking you to OPPOSE the TRUST Act, which would put my hard-earned Social Security and Medicare benefits at the mercy of a fast-tracked, closed door committee. ![]()
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