Speaker Paul Ryan and other Republicans are signaling their intention to privatize Medicare. Trump voters might not be happy about it.
Jimmy Dore breaks it down.
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How does it happen? Only in America.
Kibwey Peterkin corruption
love the jimmy dore show…accurate perspective of world affairs. need more
true progressives like you. much love from new zealand
socialist tom you should check out Kyle Kulinski in Secular Talk, he’s good
too
It’s sickening that the U.S. doesn’t offer Healthcare for All humans! This
is disgusting! #KillGrandma
“You corporate tool.” -Jimmy Dore
…legend
And it applies to sooo many too.
Really we should push for repealing ACA and getting medicare for all in its
place. It’s what Obama should have done to begin with. Whats the fucking
problem?!
svjsfgh establishment democrats are soft republicans
WE ARE FUCKED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
if the Republicans vote against keeping Medicare I will work for every
single Democrat every office no matter what for the rest of my life
That point Hank made about Medicare benefiting young people too because
then they won’t have to be ‘burdened’ with taking care of their parents
(who took care of them) is irritating. What is wrong with a program that
just benefits seniors?! The ageism in this country is beyond belief! Even
the derogatory remarks TJDS makes sometimes about the age of people they
stereotype as being the ones watching MSNBC and Fox news makes me mad. You
know, some of us watch TJDS and The Young Turks. We don’t all think and act
alike just because of our age. And, we work hard and pay taxes all our
lives. I think we deserve some respect. We need more anti-ageism activists!
nothing wrong but it does in fact benefit the kids of the elderly. It’s a
win win and nothing wrong with kids taking care of their parents, but
parents shouldn’t expect it. You had a choice they didn’t as they also have
a choice to have or not have kids. They owe it to their kids that they
choose to have and the cycle continues.
So let us look at it this way. I’m a mother with two young children. I have
two parents with various health issues who have just retired and a 94 year
old grandmother with various health issues. Now I and my husband are the
only ones working in this 7 person family. Now we, the two workers have to
find money for everyone’s health care plus normal living expenses that come
with children. That’s gonna be a pretty hefty bill for anyone not in the
upper middle class or above. Potentially an impossible bill, especially
since the older people in the family will most likely need hospital care
from time to time. I would expect this move to increase poverty and hunger
amongst a large portion of the population. Historically this is when
populations start to rebel, the French Revolution was a well-known example
but there are many more.
Let thy diet be thy medicine.
Only thing I can think of.
AND we can’t retire until we’re totally worn out anyway….
FIA
Jimmy you’re getting madder and madder. Don’t give yourself a heart attack.
So what they are proposing is very similar to what GM did in 2009 when they
got rif of their retiree group medical plans. GM had retied employees like
70 years old who had gm group health plans. WHat GM did was drop these
people. It was sold in the news as if they were being mistreated. BUt GM
gave each person 300 a month to buy medicare supplement plans
SO this republican proposal is too get rid of medicare Crazy then give each
senior some money like 300 bucks a month lets say, so they can go on market
and buy a plan from 6 competing companies offering different plans that
will confuse the poor seniors.
This will make it easier to take advantage of them. If they dont screw the
agents we will get rich in such a system. The best thing is to consult with
an expert.
Its another scam like the aca from what i can tell to make the insurance
companies rich
bastards
It’s false choise. Do you want to have a bypass operation or the budget
alternative? The people in the insurance market knows this. They know that
people are willing to pay all they have, if the option is to live or die.
It’s also a bloody scam to install even more middlemen that can drain the
resources out of the goverments pockets.
GOP is celebrating Pelosi’s victory.
‘Congrats to House Dems for reelecting Nancy Pelosi.’
-Karl Rove
The Republicans will target Medicare, privatize it, it will go south
drowning in rapacious fees and padded bill while delivering GARBAGE health
care, this country will revolt, the USA gets Single Payer/National Health
Care. These Republicans are numb skulls.
Some people (like me) would argue that healthcare should not be profit
driven. One of the reasons that our healthcare system is so broken is
because it is fueled by profit.
Also, one of the reasons Medicare works is because it covers so many
people….this gives huge leverage to negotiate healthcare costs down, and
give some standards for quality of care. If Medicare is abolished and
replaced with “free market,” for profit insurance policies, it will cause a
ripple affect throughout the entire healthcare system.
^ Rational people…I fixed it for you 🙂
+Ivory Oasis You may be right. Heaven only knows what they are spraying all
over us with those chemtrails.
+Md Device Free Market = Fee Market. Aka, Trickle-down nothing. Another
“austerity” scam.
+Kristi CH Could not agree with you more, Kristi. Our health has become a
commodity that they sell back to us for outrageous prices. We need a
national health care system like Canada that is devoid of profits.
Trump failed to protect Medicare
While I agree that the country should move toward a single-payer health
care system, Medicare is rife with fraud costing the program about $40B
annually. That ISN’T efficient, but I’ll take that over people going
bankrupt or losing their homes because someone in their family was unlucky
enough to get hurt or sick.
The biggest problem with our system is that it’s devolved into a business
rather than a means to help each other out.
Our entire healthcare system is “rife with fraud,” including health
insurance companies.
Single payer, or something very close to it, is the only solution.
The government wants to keep you afraid. People who are afraid don’t fight
back.
Jimmy, the man’s medicine costs $10,000 a month because medicare cannot
negotiate or buy from overseas. Total BS monopoly protectionism of BIg
Pharma. That is the real crime and why the deficit is soaring.
I hope Ryan dies poor and sick with no health care available to him.