Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare
Source: NPR
Targeting 'Medicare For All' Proposals, Trump Lays Out His Vision For Medicare
October 3, 2019 2:53 PM ET
President Trump gave a speech and signed an executive order on health care Thursday, casting the "Medicare for All" proposals from his Democratic rivals as harmful to seniors.
His speech, which had been billed as a policy discussion, had the tone of a campaign rally. Trump spoke from The Villages, a huge retirement community in Florida outside of Orlando, a deep-red part of a key swing state.
His speech was marked by cheers and standing ovations, and intermittent chants of "four more years" by an audience of mostly seniors.
Trump spoke extensively about his administration's health care achievements and goals, and the health policy proposals of Democratic candidates for president, which he characterized as socialism.
The executive order he signed had previously been titled "Protecting Medicare from Socialist Destruction" on the White House schedule, but has since been renamed, "Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors."
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Read more: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/10/03/766816709/targeting-medicare-for-all-proposals-trump-lays-out-his-vision-for-medicare
The original headline was better: Trump Signs Executive Order on Medicare, Critiques 'Medicare for All'
The text of the EO is here:
Executive Order on Protecting and Improving Medicare for Our Nation's Seniors. Issued 10-03-2019
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I know a lady who lived there for a short time.
She told me "There's more screwing going on there than at a high school prom. High rate of STD."
Seniors having fun.
