President Donald Trump on Tuesday steered Senate Republicans toward tax reform and away from health care, pushing off any deal to fund controversial Obamacare subsidies to the end of the year at best.
via Politico.
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#donald trump #trump #health care #trumpcare #affordable care act #republicans #seniors #obamacare #healthcare #p2 #older americans #elderly #retirement #retirees #retirement crisisTrump & Congress give Older Americans fewer reasons to celebrate this month. National Committee President Max Richtman explains why Older Americans Month is a time for concern this year.
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Tom Leppert, the former mayor of Dallas who, it was announced Monday, is a member of Donald Trump’s “landing team” for the Social Security Administration, once released a plan calling for the privatization of Social Security and Medicare.
via CNN MONEY.
President Donald Trump signaled Monday that congressional Republicans would wait until after the 2020 elections to vote on a GOP replacement for Obamacare — putting off a presumably savage legislative battle on a hot-button campaign issue until after his re-election bid.
“Everybody agrees that ObamaCare doesn’t work. Premiums & deductibles are far too high - Really bad HealthCare! Even the Dems want to replace it, but with Medicare for all, which would cause 180 million Americans to lose their beloved private health insurance,” the president tweeted.
via Politico.
The ACA provides new ways to help hospitals, doctors and other health care providers coordinate care for beneficiaries so that health care quality is improved and unnecessary spending reduced.
Improvements made in the ACA to Medicare preventive services and prescription drug coverage have lowered the out-of-pocket costs of millions of seniors.
Donald Trump’s campaign vow to repeal Obamacare is now fast-tracked in Congress and will embraced by his nominees to run the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
But the promise will also have another intended consequence if fully repealed: It will severely damage Medicare, which Republicans also fervently want to dismantle and privatize.
via FORBES.
Though the Affordable Care Act has so far withstood Trump administration sabotage and two Supreme Court challenges, the health care system goes through unnecessary shocks every time the law is threatened — and everyday people (especially older Americans) must live in constant fear of losing coverage.
In general, the older and poorer you are, the higher your premiums would be under the American Health Care Act compared with current law.
via VOX.
Donald Trump’s promise of sweeping health-care reform has not come to pass. While the president campaigned heavily on assurances to ‘repeal and replace Obamacare’ on 'day one’ with an unspecified plan for every American to have affordable health care, his claims have now been diluted to a focus on 'drug prices.’
via Has Trump Actually Done Anything About Drug Prices?
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The Trump administration counters with the sketchy argument that the disclosures on television will compel patients to sit down and talk to their doctors about cheaper alternatives, supposedly putting pressure on Big Pharma to reduce prices. But talking to one’s doctor is not going to do the trick. Nor is switching to cheaper drugs always advisable for patients with chronic or serious diseases.
AHCA’s > $800B in reduced Medicaid funding has implications for 6M seniors & 10M nonelderly people w/ disabilities.
President Donald Trump, faced with the latest Republican failure to undo Obamacare, pledged on Wednesday to tackle it again next year, suggesting without evidence that he had the votes to pass reform and promising to work with Democrats in the meantime.
Trump told reporters at the White House that he also was working on an executive order, possibly to be signed next week, that would allow individuals to buy health insurance across state lines.
via Reuters.
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Raising taxes on the wealthy will only help to rebuild America’s #infrastructure, keep seniors financially stable, while giving them access to greater care.
