Trump rips Dems' embrace of Medicare for all: 'The centrist Democratic Party is dead'
Source: The Hill
BY MICHAEL BURKE - 10/10/18 07:19 AM EDT
President Trump on Wednesday attacked Democrats over their embrace of "Medicare for all," writing in an op-ed for USA Today that the plan would threaten seniors and likening the single-payer plan to radical socialism.
"The Democrats' plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised," Trump wrote. "In practice, the Democratic Partys so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None. Under the Democrats' plan, todays Medicare would be forced to die."
Democrats have promised that the Medicare for All plan would improve health-care benefits for seniors and other U.S. citizens. The plan would also expand Medicare to cover almost everyone, Democrats have said. But Trump wrote that Democrats' preference for the single-payer health-care system shows that the "centrist Democratic party is dead."
"The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model Americas economy after Venezuela," he wrote.
Read more: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/410698-trump-rips-dems-embrace-of-medicare-for-all-the-centrist-democratic-party
RandiFan1290
(6,235 posts)BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)Hugo Chavez' daughter is their UN ambassador.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)The label, "Medicare for All," has the same appeal of something very familiar and of seeming a simple little matter, no big change, to Republican voters as it does to Democrats.
Lol. Bet the Repubs are jealous that they couldn't use it for something they wanted to put over, but calling an end to coverage for preexisting conditions "Medicare for All" would probably be pushing "sucker" way too far even for their base.
RobinA
(9,893 posts)Medicare is radical socialism? I hope Dem candidates use that mindset to their advantage.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)effective thing Sanders has ever done. The bill's not a developed plan and only has a little token handful of cosponsors. And I confess that, being on Medicare ourselves with deductibles and needing to purchase 3 additional policies apiece, I didn't initially admire the deception involved with this name at the time.
But now I do. It's only a name, yet already is popular with a majority of people across the nation. Anti-tax billionaires are obviously worrying that Republican voters like it. And on the left, Medicare for All isn't socialized medicine any more than the ACA is, but for some paying a bill with "Medicare" at the top will seem an advance, so whatever. Presumably to replace the ACA it'd be one policy (including medication!) with a much larger monthly bill to replace the 4 policies each we now have to purchase, Medicare, Medicare supplement, medication, and dental.
Now, if only SCOTUS doesn't declare vital parts unconstitutional, including the real Medicare and the ACA.
Ohiogal
(32,002 posts)would rather have NO health care or only health care for the rich? We're still waiting for the Party of Stupid to come up with that "beautiful health plan" that "costs less" and "covers everyone" that Dumpy promised us two years ago.
SunSeeker
(51,564 posts)It is Trump who has dictatorial impulses like the leader of Venezuela.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)Republicans have gone so far to the right they don't even know what a centrist is anymore.
Nitram
(22,803 posts)determined to reverse the decent into oligarchy and proto-fascism that the Republican Party has supported as the only way for a minority party to maintain control of the majority.
smb
(3,471 posts)He doesn't have the attention span to read an op-ed, much less write one.
YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)No, more like Denmark, Sweden, Norway !!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,174 posts)ACA : Obamacare
Earned benefits: Entitlements
Anti-fa(scists): fascists
Real news : fake news
fake news : real news
But Trump is taking advantage of the inner fight in the party to embrace the concept of Medicare for all, and all the 'socialism' tag baggage that comes with it.
Its time the Democrats got off the pot. And get ahead of this and not let Trump and Republicans establish a definition.