The Government shutdown today. Are you sick of Congress playing politics with our nation? Well let them know by sending them a letter and tell them enough with the political gamesmanship!
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First Obamacare and now Social Security and Medicare. Washington is after your Social Security with the stealth benefit cut known as the Chained CPI.
There have been talks of the Government shutting down and the House GOP wanting to repeal ObamaCare. This would hurt seniors and their families.
While the government shutdown has not affected Social Security or Medicare, low income seniors receiving food assistance remain at risk. Some five million older Americans receive grocery vouchers from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and administered by the states.
USDA is one of the federal agencies affected by the government shutdown. Fortunately, January’s SNAP benefits were paid, and the agency issued February’s payments ten days early before it officially ran out of funding last weekend. But this leaves all SNAP beneficiaries – including low income seniors – in a bind for two reasons.
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Something to know before ObamaCare goes in to effect tomorrow!
“Democrats have already harmed seniors by slashing Medicare by more than $800 billion over 10 years to pay for Obamacare.”
Moreover, the $800 billion in Medicare reductions in the ACA that Trump complains about are the law of the land. In fact, Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration in their budget plans have pocketed virtually all those savings — and sought even more reductions in Medicare spending on top of that. Trump proposed $350 billion in net Medicare cuts in his budget — and there were about $540 billion in Medicare cuts assumed in the House GOP budget plan.
“Republicans believe that a Medicare program that was created for seniors and paid for by seniors their entire lives should always be protected and preserved.”
Meanwhile, for years, House Republicans led by Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) have pushed for a significant overhaul of Medicare. Retirees would get from the government what Ryan called “premium support” — a set payment adjusted to inflation; they would have used that money to pick from a range of plans offered by insurance companies through what is termed a Medicare exchange. But the Congressional Budget Office raised significant questions about whether the premium payment would be adequate over time.
via Washington Post.
Under the ACA over 17 million more people have health coverage in 2016 compared to 2013.
The Trump Conundrum: He Can’t Keep His Promise to Seniors While Also Repealing Obamacare.
Fifty-five percent of Americans now support the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a major turnaround from five months ago when 42% approved and 53% disapproved. This is the first time a majority of Americans have approved of the healthcare law, also known as Obamacare, since Gallup first asked about it in this format in November 2012.
via GALLUP.
Congress is back in session on Tuesday, and leaders of both houses say their first order of business will be to repeal Obamacare.
via NPR.
A federal judge’s ruling Friday declaring the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional reminds us what’s at stake for all Americans — but especially older citizens — if the law is overturned. The ACA included important protections for “near seniors” (aged 50-64) seeking affordable coverage, as well as significant improvements to Medicare.
These provisions were revolutionary when the ACA was passed in 2010, but have now become deeply ingrained in our health care system. Americans of all ages rightly expect that the law’s benefits will not be stripped away. That’s why Republicans had so much trouble repealing the ACA in 2017. And yet, the conservative onslaught against the law continues.
President Trump, whose administration has done everything in its power to undermine the Affordable Care Act (and refused to defend it in court), tweeted, “As I predicted all along, ObamaCare has been struck down as an UNCONSTITUTIONAL disaster! Now Congress must pass a STRONG law that provides GREAT healthcare.” Of course, that’s what Trump demanded before the disastrous GOP effort to replace and replace ObamaCare. And here we are.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez made a plea for expanding Social Security benefits on Tuesday… in support of Rep. John Larson’s Social Security 2100: A Sacred Trust bill. Read more here: https://www.ncpssm.org/entitledtoknow/rep-larson-introduces-social-security-2100-a-sacred-trust-bill/. #Secure2100 #SocialSecurity
