{"id":1029481,"date":"2024-02-05T20:11:24","date_gmt":"2024-02-05T20:11:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1029481"},"modified":"2024-05-20T03:34:23","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T03:34:23","slug":"new-maga-republicans-plan-for-donald-trump-to-end-medicare-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/new-maga-republicans-plan-for-donald-trump-to-end-medicare-as-we-know-it\/","title":{"rendered":"NEW: MAGA Republicans\u2019 Plan for Donald Trump To End Medicare As We Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"341\" width=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1031397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png 1500w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=300,100 300w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=768,256 768w, https:\/\/democrats.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/War-Room-Master-Image.png?resize=1024,341 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>In response to <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-republicans-privatize-medicare-1234960808\/\"><em>new reporting<\/em><\/a><em> on MAGA Republicans\u2019 plan for Donald Trump to end Medicare as we know it, <\/em><strong><em>DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDonald Trump has been pushing to gut Medicare for years, and now MAGA Republicans are giving him a detailed playbook to end Medicare as we know it if he gets back in office. Trump already proposed hundreds of billions in cuts to Medicare and Social Security in every budget during his first term so it\u2019s no surprise that he is still running on the same overwhelmingly unpopular and out-of-touch agenda to put a lifeline for older Americans on the chopping block. Voters should take Trump at his word: If he and his fellow MAGA Republicans win, then America&#8217;s seniors lose.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NEW: MAGA Republicans have a plan for Donald Trump to \u201cgreatly accelerate\u201d efforts to privatize Medicare and end the program as we know it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-features\/trump-republicans-privatize-medicare-1234960808\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>: <strong>\u201cRepublicans Are Planning to Totally Privatize Medicare \u2014 And Fast\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cConservative operatives have already sketched out what the GOP\u2019s policy agenda would look like in the early days of a new Donald Trump presidency. \u2026 One item buried in the 887-page blueprint has attracted little attention thus far, but would have a monumental impact on the health of America\u2019s seniors and the future of one of America\u2019s most popular social programs: <strong>a call to \u2018make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option\u2019 for people who are newly eligible for Medicare.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cSuch a policy would hasten the end of the traditional Medicare program, as well as its foundational premise: that seniors can go to any doctor or provider they choose. The change would be a boon for private health insurers \u2014 which generate massive profits and growing portions of their revenues from Medicare Advantage plans \u2014 and further consolidate corporate control over the United States health care system.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cIt would not likely benefit seniors, since the private plans limit the doctors they can see and often wrongfully deny patients\u2019 care. Because the plans are costly, experts say the GOP proposal could threaten the Medicare program\u2019s solvency.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe trend toward privatization is already happening \u2014 a slim majority of Medicare beneficiaries is now enrolled in private Medicare Advantage plans. <strong>Trump helped advance this trend as president.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs The New York Times reported in 2018, during Medicare\u2019s open enrollment period, the Trump administration emailed messages to millions of beneficiaries touting the private plans.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cUnder traditional Medicare, enrollees are free to visit any doctor who accepts Medicare (nearly all physicians do). Medicare Advantage plans, by contrast, often have limited networks of doctors that patients can choose from, and many providers have stopped accepting the private plans because they so often deny the prior authorization requests they require before patients can receive services.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cBut the financial incentive to deny care is baked into the Medicare Advantage model:<\/strong> The private plans are given a fixed amount of money every month to provide coverage for each enrollee; paying out fewer dollars means extra profit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cThe privatized plans have, for years, systematically overbilled the government \u2014 mostly by billing the government as if their patients are sicker than they really are. The Biden administration has worked to claw back some of those past overpayments and rein in future outlays. Industry lobbyists and lawyers have aggressively fought these efforts.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump owns his extreme record of proposing cuts to Medicare and Social Security programs in every single one of his budgets.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/09\/trump-desantis-biden-social-security-medicare\/\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cHis avowed stance, however, is at odds with Trump\u2019s own record as president: <strong>Each of his White House budget proposals included cuts to Social Security and Medicare programs.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/3\/12\/18260271\/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts\">Vox<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump said he wouldn\u2019t cut Medicaid, Social Security, and Medicare. His 2020 budget cuts all 3.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2019\/3\/12\/18260271\/trump-medicaid-social-security-medicare-budget-cuts\">2019<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2020\/business\/trump-budget-2021\/#department-of-health-and-human-services\">2020<\/a>: Trump proposed budgets that included hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Medicare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/winners-losers-trumps-budget-proposal\">FY18<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy-and-politics\/2018\/2\/6\/16735966\/social-security-disability-insurance\">FY19<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/03\/11\/us\/politics\/trump-budget.html\">FY20<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/medicare-medicaid-social-security-trumps-proposed-budget-slashes-entitlements-campaign-1486595\">FY21<\/a> budgets each proposed billions of dollars in cuts to Social Security programs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump said he would cut Social Security and Medicare in a second term in office \u2014 including threatening the programs\u2019 financial standing by promising to permanently eliminate the taxes that fund both programs.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amp.cnn.com\/cnn\/2020\/01\/23\/politics\/donald-trump-medicare-entitlements-cuts\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: <strong>\u201cTrump now says he&#8217;s open to entitlement cuts, including Medicare\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/trump-signals-willingness-to-reform-social-security-medicare-we-will-take-a-look-at-that\/\">National Review<\/a>: \u201cSpeaking with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, <strong>Trump was asked whether he would cut entitlements at some point. \u2018Will entitlements ever be on your plate?\u2019 asked interviewer Joe Kernen. \u2018At some point they will be,\u2019 Trump responded. \u2018At the right time, we will take a look at that. You know, that\u2019s the easiest of all things [to cut].\u2019\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/news\/trump-at-fox-news-town-hall-well-be-cutting-entitlements-like-medicare-social-security\/\">Mediaite<\/a>: \u201cDuring a Fox News town hall, <strong>President Donald Trump promised to cut entitlements like Medicare and Social Security if were to win a second term.<\/strong> \u2026 \u2018But if you don\u2019t cut something in entitlements, you will never really deal with the debt,\u2019 town hall co-moderator Martha MacCallum interjected, alluding to social safety programs like Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security.<strong> \u2018Oh, we\u2019ll be cutting,\u2019 Trump rushed to confirm.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/us-policy\/2020\/08\/08\/trump-payroll-tax-cut\/\">Washington Post<\/a>: <strong>\u201cPresident Trump pledged on Saturday to pursue a permanent cut to the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare<\/strong> if he wins reelection in November, a hard-to-accomplish political gambit that some experts see as a major headache for the future of the country\u2019s entitlement programs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DNCWarRoom\/status\/1293534540107923458\">Trump<\/a>: \u201cIf we win \u2026 <strong>the payroll tax will be rescinded.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Trump has long made calls to privatize Social Security and even praised congressional Republicans as they pushed plans to end Medicare as we know it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/09\/26\/politics\/kfile-donald-trump\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cFormer President Donald Trump has called his 2024 opponent Ron DeSantis a \u2018wheelchair over the cliff kind of guy\u2019 for supporting then-Rep. Paul Ryan\u2019s 2012 plans to partially privatize Medicare but <strong>a review of Trump\u2019s comments by CNN\u2019s KFile show that he supported the same plan at the same time\u2026 the former president enthusiastically supported the same plan, which would have partially privatized the program and critics argued turned it into a voucher system.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/27\/politics\/trump-desantis-social-security-ponzi-scheme\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cTrump previously backed policies on Social Security for which he\u2019s now attacking DeSantis, calling the program a \u2018Ponzi scheme\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cFormer President Donald Trump once backed raising the retirement age to 70 and called for privatizing Social Security which he called a \u2018Ponzi scheme\u2019 \u2026 Trump himself also once praised Ryan on Medicare, along with the 2012 presidential nominee Mitt Romney,<\/strong> without praising their specific policy proposal, which called for similar changes to Ryan\u2019s plan.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nikki Haley is also campaigning on ending Social Security and Medicare as we know them.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/05\/politics\/nikki-haley-social-security-medicare-reform\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: \u201c<strong>Haley has called for several changes to the nation\u2019s safety net programs,<\/strong> including increasing the age at which today\u2019s younger workers would become eligible for Social Security retirement benefits and limiting the growth of benefits the wealthy receive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/09\/trump-desantis-biden-social-security-medicare\/\">Haley<\/a>: <strong>\u201cWhat they need to be doing is looking at entitlements. Look at Social Security. Look at Medicaid. Look at Medicare. Look at these things, and let\u2019s actually go to the heart of what is causing government to grow, and tackle that.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DNCWarRoom\/status\/1695084769321595388?s=20\">Haley<\/a>: \u201cAny candidate that says they\u2019re not going to touch entitlements, means that they\u2019re basically going to go into office and leave America bankrupt. \u2026 We change retirement age to reflect life expectancy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Jgfxz7l52ea-DHXPgS9-2T3N6mGM6ich\/view\">Andrew Ross Sorkin<\/a>: \u201cAre you on board with cutting entitlements in a big and meaningful way?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Haley: <strong>\u201cAnyone that says they&#8217;re not going to take on entitlement reform means they&#8217;re going to go in and be president and leave the country bankrupt.<\/strong> You can&#8217;t do that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/haley-social-security-medicare-president-2024-0b6ea12f7ee8c650ce2de4bf2df5a787\">Associated Press<\/a>: <strong>\u201cRepublican presidential candidate Nikki Haley is proposing changes to entitlement programs for younger generations, opening the door to potential cuts to Social Security and Medicare if elected.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2023\/02\/09\/trump-desantis-biden-social-security-medicare\/\">Washington Post<\/a>: \u201cNikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and U. N. ambassador who is planning to announce her own presidential bid this month, also praised Ryan\u2019s Medicare proposal at the time and said lawmakers should examine Medicare and Social Security spending to address federal debt.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semafor.com\/newsletter\/02\/09\/2023\/do-2024-republicans-have-a-tea-party-problem\">Semafor<\/a>: \u201cAs governor of South Carolina at the time, Nikki Haley praised the [Paul Ryan] fiscal blueprint for \u2018trying to bring common sense to this world of insanity.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MAGA Republicans\u2019 plan to gut Social Security and Medicare is extremely unpopular with Americans \u2014&nbsp;including Republicans.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/official-polls\/fox-news-poll-71-choose-funding-social-security-medicare-over-budget-cuts\">Fox News<\/a>: <strong>\u201cFox News Poll: 71% choose funding Social Security, Medicare over budget cuts\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sahilkapur\/status\/1643980154006556676?s=20\">Sahil Kapur, NBC News<\/a>: \u201cDigging deeper into this @FoxNews finding. <strong>Support for funding entitlements like Social Security &amp; Medicare over reducing deficits is overwhelming with the GOP base:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Republicans 59-38%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump voters 59-37%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conservatives 60-36%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rural voters 70-26%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>White non-college voters 73%-24%\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/12\/05\/politics\/nikki-haley-social-security-medicare-reform\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>: \u201cNearly 67 million Americans have received monthly Social Security benefits this year, and more than 66 million people are enrolled in Medicare. <strong>Polling shows little support for major changes to the programs themselves<\/strong> to help shore up their finances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA March CNN\/SSRS poll of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, for instance, found that 59% said it was \u2018essential\u2019 that the GOP nominee for president \u2018pledges to maintain Social Security and Medicare as they are.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/social-security-medicare-cuts-ap-poll-biden-9e7395e8efeab68063d741beac6ef24b\">Associated Press<\/a>: <strong>\u201cMost oppose Social Security, Medicare cuts: AP-NORC poll\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to new reporting on MAGA Republicans\u2019 plan for Donald Trump to end Medicare as we know it, DNC Rapid Response Director Alex Floyd released the following statement:&nbsp; \u201cDonald Trump has been pushing to gut Medicare for years, and now MAGA Republicans are giving him a detailed playbook to end Medicare as we know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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