GOP plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid!

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GOP prefer that the rich being able to buy more private jets that helping the poor and sicks.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/business/wp/2018/06/19/house-gop-plan-would-cut-medicare-social-security-to-balance-budget/?utm_term=.b3af071de413

Budget Proposals in article:
-people can no longer concurrently collect SS disability and unemployment benefits
-adding more work requirements for food-stamp and welfare recipients
-give seniors option to enroll in competitive private plans (so gov. Medicare money can be used for private medical insurance)
-$537 billion cuts to Medicare
-1.5 trillion cuts to Medicaid
-add work requirement for some adults in Medicare
-cut $230 billion in worker retraining & education (including cutting consolidating student loan programs and reducing Pell Grant awards)
-increase federal worker pension contributions
-additional $302 billion in so far unspecified cuts

Let the sick and disabled die off and decrease the surplus population, ah isn't that the definition of "pro-life"?

Right wing morality at it's finest!

Yes and SNAP otherwise known as food-stamps...what else is new. I depend on that to get enough to feed myself but whatever...

it's a long-planned culling, i'm telling you. no good banana republican tyrants.

The problem with a lot of conservatives is that they are under the impression that savings in government spending on these things is somehow going to increase their standar of living under the presumption that it will lead to tax cuts for the middle class. The problem is, it won't lead to life impacting tax cuts. Those savings will bleed off into the coffers of sub par military contractors and fall waste to beaurocracy and go no where pet projects and any returns to the tax payer will be miniscule. The world economy and culture has shifted from the days when masses of average Americans could graduate high school and work their way up ladders from the bottom to the "American Dream". Companies rarely promote from the bottom up, often choosing outside "better qualified" applicants with college degrees (and more student debt than they can ever pay off). Living wages for non corporate positions are things of the past. Employers no longer give hourly employees stable hours, using algorithms that cause shifting work schedules, keeping workers on call without pay and making it difficult for people to take more than one job.

They need to stop living in the past and stop thinking we will ever get back to it.

Trump just cut our taxes and wants to do more tax cuts.

"Trump calls for another round of tax cuts, further reductions to corporate tax rate"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/bus ... fe802d30b2

Our household income is around $200,000, and we will get back an extra ~$6,000 per year, every year!

it's just all about you, ain't it?

$6,000 a year is great until you get cancer and realize that is your out of pocket cost for one Neulasta injection so you don't get neutropenia and die of an infection because the chemotherapy wiped out your immune system, and you need 4 to 16 Neulasta injections ($24,000 to $96,000).

In most western countries you would get that at a greatly subsidized rate or for free. You would be treated for your cancer without having to worry about dying from what may be a curable condition due to not having been able to save up $300,000 of liquid assets before you got cancer (It would take you 50 years at $6,000 per year).

God forbid you are an average person and get a serious illness in this country through no fault of your own. You will have constant anxiety about dying not because your condition can't be treated or cured, but because your representatives have not protected you from price guaging drug and health care companies, your representatives do not believe health care should be a right, and because you are an average American who is not rich enough to afford treatment that can save your life.

You may very well find yourself dying of a condition that in any other western country, you would not die from. And not in your cozy bed at either because how are you going to pay the rent or mortgage when you are too ill to work and out of savings?

In this country, responsible, hard working, middle class Americans who saved all of their lifes, and lived in states with low taxes, die from lack of access to health care they would have recieved if they were Canadian or Australian, British, Welsh, Scottish, French, Belgian, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Slovakian, Japanese, even Indian.

If you think any amount of savings the average American gets from tax cuts is going to be enough to meet the cost of such a misfortune you are dead wrong, possibly very literally.

It's abbhorable and the United States will never be the pinnacle of greatness until we have the same access to health care as other western countries and stop leaving people to die in the street.

Here are some photos of cancer when it gets out of control btw. People need to see reality.









See what happened to this young lady.

What were their sins?
The man in the first photo probably worked most of his life outdoors or got a papilloma virus.

The woman in the second photo commited the sin of being female.

The person in the third photo has melanoma. It can develop in areas not exposed to sun.

The person in the 4th photo has stage 4 colon cancer.

The woman in the link has also commited the sin of being female. But many GOP politicians seem to think people always bring misfortunes upon themselves.

I have a relative who died of cancer through no fault of her own. She got it in her early 30s. She was a middle class wife and mother. She had no risk factors and the cause of her cancer was unknown. People need to see what cancer really looks like when it's not hidden inside of bodies or underneath sheets. They need to see the horrible things people die of uneccesarily in this country and understand that many Americans who die from it would not have died from it anywhere else in the western world.

How can this be a great country when we let average people die of curable things that other countries with lower GDPs don't let their citizens die of? I have a neighbor from the Netherlands. She went back to visit a while back and when she came back she said to me "Why am I living here?"

I can go on. Let's talk about my grandmother.

She is 90. In her time, she was a good, upstanding, conservative conformist. She did exactly what society expected her to do. She married her high school sweetheart who got a good job and she became a dedicated home maker, wife, and mother to five children.

When she was pregnant with the 5th, her husband had an affair and left her for his pregnant mistress. He then died a year later.

My grandmother was entitled to his social security but that could not support five children so she had no choice at the time but to leave the children unsupervised and enter the work force. She worked three jobs at one point, quitting her evening job after being robbed at gun point. She eventually got a unionized government job when she was 40, remarried when she was 50 to a man who earned an average wage, and she continued to work until her husband had to retire and she could no longer do the 2 hour commute to work both ways. Her husband eventually died and she had to sell her mobile home and move closer to her kids, only three of which are alive. I consider her fortunate because even though she didn't have enough to retire to a nice community in Palm Springs, after all of her hard work, she qualified for a well kept, government subsidized apartment building for low income seniors and disabled individuals over 18.

The problem is, my grandmother has dementia and despite her three surviving children splitting their time caring for her, her needs are beginning to exceed their capacity to meet them. She will soon need to be in a nursing home with a memory care ward but her insurance does not cover this and these facilities out of pocket are $2000 to $4000 per month which no one has.

Her medicare does currently cover someone to come in once a week and bathe her and she will only let this lady do it and becomes combative if anyone else tries.

She is 90, in diapers, doesn't know where she is sometimes despite living in the same place for 20 years and the GOP is threatening to cut her medicare and wants her to go out and get a job when she needs end of life care? They are insane.

I just got a notice that Medicaid has switched me over to some other insurance provider.
Then a notice that my preventive care like yearly blood work and mammogram are not covered anymore.
Years back I was on Depakote,
which raised my bad cholesterol
into the 400s.If I hadn’t went in for yearly blood work,I would not have known this.
Gee, thanks Trump.
Gonna gut my mental health care next?

Well goody goody gumdrops.

And that blood work is probably hundreds of dollars out of pocket for a human when the local vet does it on dogs and cats for $75.

So true.I know someone that has a vet stich their leg up,they were friends.No charge.Beats the emergency room and a big bill.Some of the same medications can be bought at a feed store for pennies.Made by Phizer and other name brand companies.

A $200,000 income is no match for an unregulated health care industry that makes price competition next to impossible by lack of pricing transparency. And then are instances where you submit to the debt or die or have no say at all. An stay in ICU for a week can run you $100,000. But so can a routine appendectomy depending on the hospital.

Your coffers will empty fast.