If passed, Trump’s budget and health care plan would cut medicaid funding nearly in half. An estimated 74 million Americans are currently covered through medicaid. One person who might be affected is Caroline Larson, who could lose her home if it goes through.
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Other media outlets are hedging by saying the Trump budget doesn’t cut “core” Social Security benefits – whatever that means. Social Security Disability Insurance is a crucial and inseparable part of Social Security. Period. No amount of parsing can cleave the two. When you cut a program, you hurt people – whether the cuts affect “core” benefits or not.
In this case, the millions of Americans with disabilities who rely on SSDI for basic income security are the ones who stand to be hurt. Though SSDI helps younger Americans, too, most of its beneficiaries are 55 or over – meaning any cuts to the program will hit older Americans particularly hard.
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Trump Budget Cuts Medicaid Even More Than House Health Bill, Showing Danger of Per Capita Cap:
President Trump’s budget not only assumes the huge Medicaid cuts in the House Republican bill to “repeal and replace” the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but dramatically enlarges them. That House bill — the American Health Care Act (AHCA) — would cut federal Medicaid spending by $839 billion over ten years, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates, by effectively ending the ACA’s Medicaid expansion and converting virtually all of Medicaid to a per capita cap or block grant.
That would mean 14 million fewer low-income people enrolled in Medicaid by 2026. The Trump budget would go further, cutting Medicaid by as much as $1.3 trillion over the next decade, we estimate.
via CBPP.
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- Seniors who rely on Medicaid will suffer under the American Health Care Act. The CBO report calculates that the AHCA slashes Medicaid spending by $834 billion. Medicaid currently helps pay for long term care for millions of seniors nationwide. The CBO estimates that some 14 million Medicaid recipients would lose coverage under the AHCA – or not be able to attain it in the first place – within the next 10 years. In fact, more than half of the increase in uninsured Americans under the AHCA would come from this vulnerable population.
The truth is that these federal safety net programs are incredibly efficient already. Medicaid’s per capita costs are significantly lower than private insurers’. Meals on Wheels can feed a senior for an entire year at the same cost as a single day in the hospital. And those are only two of the safety net programs which fall under the Trump budget axe.
via Entitled to Know.
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Now it turns out that there was method to his muttering. In effect, Mulvaney was telegraphing that the Trump White House was planning to cut disability benefits sharply. The Trump budget released Tuesday includes $1.7 trillion in cuts to major social insurance and assistance programs, including food stamps, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and Social Security disability.
via Los Angeles Times.
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Congressional leaders say the Trump administration is preparing to propose up to $25 billion in federal spending cuts, which will hit Medicaid and other safety net programs.
The so-far unreleased White House plan would call on Congress to rescind funding already enacted, and it would be submitted next month, Reuters reported Thursday.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK) told reporters the administration was originally considering $60 billion in mid-year cuts. He said the president’s team is considering slicing mandatory adjustments that “Democrats probably wouldn’t like.” Mandatory programs include Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Those cuts would be unrelated to a two-year budget deal enacted in February as the federal government approached its third shutdown of the fiscal year.
But they align with Trump’s previous budget proposals, which both called for reducing mandatory program spending — including slashing $800 billion from Medicaid over 10 years.
Cole and other senior House Republicans warned the White House against rescinding money from Democrat-backed programs while largely sparing Republican priorities such as defense.
via McKnight’s.
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President Trump proposed a budget Monday that hits the poorest Americans the hardest, slashing billions of dollars in food stamps, health insurance and federal housing subsidies while pushing legislation to institute broad work requirements for families receiving housing vouchers, expanding on moves by some states to require recipients of Medicaid and food stamps to work.
The Trump budget proposal would gut the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as food stamps, by $17.2 billion in 2019 — equivalent to 22 percent of the program’s total cost last year. It calls for cuts of more than $213.5 billion over the next decade, a reduction of nearly 30 percent, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
via Washington Post.
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Trump 2019 Budget Shortchanges Seniors, Poor, Disabled.
- President Trump released an FY 2019 budget today proposing deep spending reductions for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and myriad other federal programs that help older Americans, the poor, and people with disabilities.
- Defunds the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps low income seniors pay their heating bills.
President Trump released an FY 2019 budget today proposing deep spending reductions for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), and myriad other federal programs that help older Americans, the poor, and people with disabilities.
Here are some of the highlights (or lowlights) of the President’s proposed FY 2019 budget that impact society’s most vulnerable:
- Some $500 billion in Medicare spending reductions over ten years, most of which would affect providers and suppliers, but could potentially impact beneficiaries, too.
- $1.4 trillion in cuts to Medicaid (which covers long-term care for millions of seniors) through restructuring the program.
- Some $700 billion in spending reductions from “repealing and replacing Obamacare.”
- $64 million in cuts to Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI).
- Reduces the Social Security Administration’s request for administrative funding by $90 million from FY 2017 levels, which would further exacerbate SSA’s customer service issues.
- Defunds the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps low income seniors pay their heating bills.
Read more about President Trump’s
budget by clicking here.
We roundly reject Trump’s 2019 budget. After signing off on tax cuts for billionaires and big corporations, the president proposes to cut Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security Disability Insurance – and myriad other programs that help older Americans.