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ARTICLE HERE | Rep. Tammy Baldwin: Preserving the Medicare contract
For decades, Medicare has kept millions of our senior citizens from living out their days in poverty.
"Just three days after they introduced it, without the support of any Democrats, Republicans in the House passed their plan to break that contract and end Medicare as we know it. Their plan would privatize Medicare, cut benefits, and force seniors to buy insurance on their own from insurance companies. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, under the Republican plan, most elderly people will pay more for medical care and get less than they do under Medicare.
"Just three days after they introduced it, without the support of any Democrats, Republicans in the House passed their plan to break that contract and end Medicare as we know it. Their plan would privatize Medicare, cut benefits, and force seniors to buy insurance on their own from insurance companies. According to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, under the Republican plan, most elderly people will pay more for medical care and get less than they do under Medicare.
The Republican plan would reopen the Part D prescription drug donut hole and seniors would immediately begin paying higher costs for their medications. And, under their plan, the cost to beneficiaries of Medicare coverage would go from the current $5,538 to $12,513 in 2022 and those costs would continue to rise.
Not one dollar of that increase in beneficiary costs goes to reducing the deficit – it all goes to cover the higher costs of private plans that the Republicans would force seniors to join." READ MORE
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