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Three interactive documents focusing on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care that you need to visit.
Earned Benefits and Health Care Project:
http://bit.ly/earnedbenefits
Trump Timeline:
http://bit.ly/nctrumptimeline
Congressional Timeline:
http://bit.ly/congresstimeline
Three interactive documents on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care.
Targeting Earned Benefits & Health Care: http://bit.ly/earnedbenefits
Trump Timeline: http://bit.ly/nctrumptimeline
Congressional Timeline: http://bit.ly/congresstimeline
We have updated our earned benefits project which keeps track of Members of Congress’ comments on wanting to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care.
You can view the whole project by clicking here.
Did you miss today’s Behind the Headlines?
We discussed:
- The GOP’s budget that passed committee last week which would cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.
- Our Congressional timeline which keeps track of states said by Members of Congress advocating for cuts to earned benefits and health care programs.
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via The Mercury News.
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We have been keeping track of President Trump and his administration’s actions on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care.
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- In 2013, Medicare beneficiaries’ average out-of-pocket health care spending was 41 percent of average per capita Social Security income; the share increased with age and was higher for women than men, especially among people ages 85 and over.
- Medicare beneficiaries’ average out-of-pocket health care spending is projected to rise as a share of average per capita Social Security income, from 41 percent in 2013 to 50 percent in 2030.
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It will keep you updated on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care news.
Lumping Social Security and Medicare together and calling them ‘entitlements’ is also telling. These are earned benefits, not entitlements, which American workers have contributed to throughout their working lives. Conservatives have long used the word 'entitlements’ to make those earned benefits seem like welfare.
via Entitled to Know.
Harwood: Retirement age?
Stivers: We need to come together. I think we need to say, “You give a little, we give a little,” and figure out how to sustain Medicare and Social Security into the future. The other thing on Medicare is we have to bend the cost curve on health care.
via CNBC.
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We have been keeping track of Members of Congress’ statements on wanting to cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care in 2018.
You can find the whole project by clicking here.
Investment in home and community-based care is popular and must be included in #infrastructure. Now it’s up to Congress to get it done. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/04/opinion/elder-care-congress.html #HCBS @nytimes