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Faryn Balyncd

(5,125 posts)
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 07:14 PM Mar 2015

NYT: 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 OP
This is why Democrats must win in 2016. Agnosticsherbet Mar 2015 #1
Absolutely. Faryn Balyncd Mar 2015 #2
Thank you Republicans C_U_L8R Mar 2015 #3
Get you government hands off my Medicare Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2015 #4
a translation DonCoquixote Mar 2015 #5
Glad Obama is in the WH. nt kelliekat44 Mar 2015 #6

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)
5. a translation
Tue Mar 17, 2015, 10:13 PM
Mar 2015
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!"
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