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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNYT: House GOP budget proposes to voucherize Medicare, block grant Medicaid, repeal ACA:
...Future recipients of Medicare would be offered voucherlike premium support to pay for private insurance rather than government-provided health care.
Spending on Medicaid would be cut substantially over 10 years, with the money turned into block grants to state governments, which in turn would have much more flexibility in deciding how it is allocated.
The budget repeals all of Obamacare, Representative Diane Black, Republican of Tennessee, said the same day the Obama administration announced that the law had provided coverage to 16.4 million previously uninsured people.To placate advocates of the military who say strict budget caps are hurting national defense, the House budget adds emergency war spending through the overseas contingency operations account, which does not count against the spending limits. . . . .
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/17/us/politics/house-republican-budget-overhauls-medicare-and-repeals-the-health-law.html?emc=edit_tnt_20150316&nlid=58462464&tntemail0=y&_r=1
Well, do we have the issue to throw these bums out?
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NYT: House GOP budget proposes to voucherize Medicare, block grant Medicaid, repeal ACA: (Original Post)
Faryn Balyncd
Mar 2015
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Agnosticsherbet
(11,619 posts)1. This is why Democrats must win in 2016.
Republicans will destroy Medicare.
Faryn Balyncd
(5,125 posts)2. Absolutely.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)3. Thank you Republicans
You've given us everything we need
to kick your sorry asses.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)4. Get you government hands off my Medicare
Isn't that what the teabaggers said?
DonCoquixote
(13,616 posts)5. a translation
Spending on Medicaid would be cut substantially over 10 years, with the money turned into block grants to state governments, which in turn would have much more flexibility in deciding how it is allocated.
Translation:
"we GOP will get to late the states take over, because the Koches can bully them around or buy them out, and give the states the right to demonize brown people and anyone else the powerfulchurches want to abuse!"
Translation:
"we GOP will get to late the states take over, because the Koches can bully them around or buy them out, and give the states the right to demonize brown people and anyone else the powerfulchurches want to abuse!"
kelliekat44
(7,759 posts)6. Glad Obama is in the WH. nt