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babylonsister

(171,066 posts) Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:16 AM Oct 2018

Trump rips Dems' embrace of Medicare for all: 'The centrist Democratic Party is dead'

Trump rips Dems’ embrace of Medicare for all: ‘The centrist Democratic Party is dead’
By Michael Burke - 10/10/18 07:19 AM EDT

President Trump on Wednesday attacked Democrats over their embrace of "Medicare for all," writing in an op-ed for USA Today that the plan would threaten seniors and likening the single-payer plan to radical socialism.

"The Democrats' plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised," Trump wrote. "In practice, the Democratic Party’s so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None. Under the Democrats' plan, today’s Medicare would be forced to die."

Democrats have promised that the Medicare for All plan would improve health-care benefits for seniors and other U.S. citizens. The plan would also expand Medicare to cover almost everyone, Democrats have said.

But Trump wrote that Democrats' preference for the single-payer health-care system shows that the "centrist Democratic party is dead."

"The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model America’s economy after Venezuela," he wrote.

The op-ed comes about a month ahead of November's midterm elections, when health care will likely be an important issue for voters.

"If Democrats win control of Congress this November, we will come dangerously closer to socialism in America," Trump wrote. "Government-run health care is just the beginning. Democrats are also pushing massive government control of education, private-sector businesses and other major sectors of the U.S. economy."

"Every single citizen will be harmed by such a radical shift in American culture and life. Virtually everywhere it has been tried, socialism has brought suffering, misery and decay," the president added.

The op-ed also comes after Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made similar criticisms on Tuesday of Medicare for All, saying that it shows that the Democratic Party has “gone off the rails."

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Trump rips Dems' embrace of Medicare for all: 'The centrist Democratic Party is dead' (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2018 OP

He didn't write shit HAB911 Oct 2018 #1

That was my first thought. I suspect his house Nazi, Stephen Miller. nt Buns_of_Fire Oct 2018 #5

Nonsense colsohlibgal Oct 2018 #2

Well, he will further popularize "socialism." David__77 Oct 2018 #3

He's making Democrats sound good. Maybe they should hire him as their spokes person Johonny Oct 2018 #4

HAB911

(8,893 posts)

1. He didn't write shit

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:17 AM

Oct 2018

he can't spell much less string together that many words into cogent thoughts and sentences

Buns_of_Fire

(17,180 posts)

5. That was my first thought. I suspect his house Nazi, Stephen Miller. nt

Reply to HAB911 (Reply #1)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 11:18 AM

Oct 2018

colsohlibgal

(5,275 posts)

2. Nonsense

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 09:50 AM

Oct 2018

Hopefully more and more non wack a doodle wingnut moderates figure this out. Quit giving massive tax cuts to corporations and people who don’t need them. Stop paying gazillions on the Defense budget.

Do that and we could provide cheaper single payer health insurance to most everyone. And maybe more and more will figure out that a rising tide lifts all boats.

Oh and on immigration.....quit talking about white people as original inhabitants It isn’t us we took it forcibly from the real Native Americans, killing them and breaking treaty after treaty.

David__77

(23,418 posts)

3. Well, he will further popularize "socialism."

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:30 AM

Oct 2018

I like “socialism’s” chances in a contest of “socialism” versus Trump.

Johonny

(20,851 posts)

4. He's making Democrats sound good. Maybe they should hire him as their spokes person

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Wed Oct 10, 2018, 10:35 AM

Oct 2018

If you elect Democrats you'll get universal health care like the rest of the industrial world, an education system not run by the guy that thinks the dinosaurs were on Noah's ark, and we might regulate industry again so you don't have to drink lead, mercury and eat soylent green.

Wow, I'll take any democrat actually willing to push this agenda!

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