TRUMP’S 2020 BUDGET PROPOSAL IS A TOTAL JOKE STATEMENT

…Here is the Trump telling his lies about supporting Medicare

Trump’s budget proposal is just another, “Book of Lies”

Okay, let’s take a hint from a New Yorker Magazine writer about President Trump.  He compares Donald Trump to the Nazi propagandist, Joseph Goebbels.  Goebbels said: “When one lies, one should lie big, and stick to it.”

This is especially true in regards to Trump’s latest budget proposal which even the proposal’s title is a big lie: “A Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First.”

 Yeah, right.

You may recall that in the president’s 2020 “State of the Union Speech”, he declared that he was not going to touch “Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security”.  He said he wasn’t going to mess with the nation’s health care programs and he wasn’t going to take away the “pre-existing conditions” in today’s health care programs.

In fact, you may recall that in 2016 when he descended the golden escalator at his Trump Tower. “Save Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security without cuts,” he declared. “Have to do it.” Throughout the Republican primary campaign, Trump repeated this pledge many times and also accused his GOP opponents of wanting to slash the three big entitlement programs. In the general-election campaign, he stuck to the same program. A few days before the 2016 Election Day, he suggested that Hillary Clinton wanted to “destroy” Medicare, the public health-care system for the elderly, which she had actually vowed to expand. He then claimed that he alone would “protect” it.

Again…..yeah right.

Well, in his latest budget, this is what is glaringly clear in black & whit for everyone to see how the president is so called, “safeguarding those programs”

• The budget calls for $500,050,000,000.00 in cuts to Medicare over 10 years (That’s $500 and 50 billion dollars.).  That’s with even more Americans, that are living longer, being added over those 10 years.  With the budget deficit skyrocketing as a consequence of the Trump-GOP tax bill, the 2020 budget would reduce spending on Medicare by eight hundred and forty-five billion dollars over the next decade. Even in Washington, that’s a pile of money.

• These cuts to Medicare in particular would be imposed as the budget also gives billions of dollars each year in extra spending for the Pentagon and another $8.6 billion just for Trump’s southern border wall. These economies would be achieved in Medicare largely by reducing payments to doctors, hospitals, and other health-care providers, which would affect benefits and drive some health providers to leave the program.

• Rather than spelling this out, the document adopts the language of Orwell’s 1984 “Newspeak”: “The Budget proposes to reduce wasteful spending and incentivize efficiency and quality of healthcare in Medicare, extending the solvency of the program for America’s seniors consistent with the President’s promise to protect Medicare.”  Absolute Bull…!

• The budget treats Medicaid, the federal health program for poor people and children, in an even more negative fashion. Reflecting the long-standing priority of the Republican Party, the budget would convert Medicaid into a system that is a state administered system, but financed by federal block grants. Each state could then design their own system.  By indexing these grants to the rate of consumer-price inflation, this item rises more slowly than the inflation in today’s health-care sector, the budget would then substantially reduce the federal spending commitment in Medicaid going forward.

• In addition, this would eliminate funding that the Affordable Care Act (ACA-Obamacare) provided for individual states to expand Medicaid to more recipients.  This is funding that more than thirty states have taken advantage of in recent years.

So this is the so called : “Budget for a Better America: Promises Kept. Taxpayers First.” 

Yeah, right.

Copyright G. Ater 2020