NCPSSM

[NCPSSM]

MOORE: Well, this is an idea that I don’t know if the Trump administration is going to embrace, but it’s something, I think, for middle-class people would be one of the best ways for every American to own stock in America. So, instead – the idea would be, you know, rather than having to send your 10% of your paycheck into the black hole of Social Security, you would be able to put that into personal account, like an index fund. And that means, Steve, everybody in America would benefit when the stock market goes up.

via Media Matters.

Related Reading:

Social Security Privatization: Then and Now.

While it’s safe for Democrats to declare their opposition to privatization, the bolder step they need to make in this politically charged benefit-cuts environment is to demand that any Social Security conversation must address benefit adequacy as well as long-term solvency.

[NCPSSM]

via twitter.

Paul Ryan is not a friend to seniors.

[NCPSSM]

via twitter.

Related Reading:

Trump Spreads Medicare Falsehoods in Florida.

When it comes to healthcare – and especially seniors’ health care – Trump chooses to dwell in an Orwellian ‘opposite world’ where Republican attempts to cut and privatize Medicare are actually meant to “protect” the program.  Apparently, President Trump and his GOP allies believe they must destroy Medicare in order to save it.

[NCPSSM]

The GOP likes to “redefine” benefit cuts:

❌ Premium Support ➡️ Vouchers
❌ Recalculating Poverty Formula ➡️ Chained CPI
❌ Personal Accounts ➡️ Privatization

Sign our petition by clicking here.

[NCPSSM]

The GOP likes to “redefine” benefit cuts: 

Premium Support —> Vouchers
Recalculating Poverty Formula —> Chained CPI
Personal Accounts —> Privatization

Sign our petition.

[NCPSSM]

Yesterday, the Privatizer in Chief left Congress.

[NCPSSM]

Ryan’s reputation was built on the back of his budgets: draconian documents that gutted social spending, privatized Medicare, and showed the Republican Party had embraced the kinds of hard fiscal choices that Bush had sloughed off.

Vox via Paul Ryan’s long con.

Related Graphic:

Read more about his departure here.

[NCPSSM]

“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.

Related Reading:

• The Affordable Care Act does not cut any of Medicare’s benefits. Rather the savings are being used to pay for benefits that are improving health care and saving money for millions of Medicare beneficiaries.
  
• Learn more about this issue by clicking here.

• Privatizing the program would end traditional Medicare as we know it. Ryan’s plan would likely drive healthier, younger and wealthier seniors toward private insurance. Poorer and sicker seniors would remain in traditional Medicare, driving up costs until the program collapsed under its own weight.
  
• Learn more about this issue by clicking here.

[NCPSSM]

On November 6th, who will YOU choose to protect YOUR Social Security and Medicare?

Pledge to Vote by clicking here.

[NCPSSM]

via CNBC.

“Premium support” or voucher care is NOT acceptable.

• Rep. Paul Ryan’s plan would likely drive healthier, younger and wealthier seniors toward private insurance. Poorer and sicker seniors would remain in traditional Medicare, driving up costs until the program collapsed under its own weight.
  
• Read more about Rep. Ryan’s plan here.

[NCPSSM]

And Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, has warned that if Republicans maintain control of the Senate and House of Representatives after the November midterms, proposals to privatize Social Security—an incredibly bad idea—could very well be on the table.

via Alternet.

Related Reading:

We have been keeping track of President Trump and his administration’s actions on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care.

View the full timeline by clicking here.

[NCPSSM]

bit.ly

Here Are 5 Ways Trump — And the Republicans Who Control Both Houses of Congress — Are Much Worse Than Nixon

3. Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid

Author/journalist Noam Chomsky, one of the great minds of the left, has described Nixon as “America’s last liberal president”—and when it came to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, Nixon clearly supported elements of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s New Deal and President Lyndon B. Johnson’s sequel, the Great Society.

In 1972, Nixon signed into law a bill that expanded Social Security and Medicare benefits, which was radically different from the Trump administration budget that, in February, called for dramatic cuts in those programs. Nixon had no interest in privatizing Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid, whereas Ryan would love to privatize those programs—and as Max Richtman, president of the National Committee to Preserve Social Security and Medicare, pointed out earlier this year, “Privatization is not a plan to save Social Security; it is a plan to dismantle Social Security.”

via Alternet.

Related Reading:

We have kept track of both the Trump administration and Congress’ actions on Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and health care.

You can view both timelines here:

President Trump and administration timeline.

Congressional timeline.