Deep cuts to Medicare, Medicaid loom in GOP 2019 budget.

[LongTomH]

From the Hill: House GOP 2019 budget calls for deep Medicare, Medicaid spending cuts:

House Republicans offered a budget proposal on Tuesday that would cut mandatory spending by $5.4 trillion over a decade, including $537 billion in cuts to Medicare and $1.5 trillion in cuts to Medicaid and other health programs.

On Medicare, the budget would move towards a system of private health insurance plans competing with one other, rather than the current open-ended, government-provided Medicare system.

On Medicaid, the budget would impose new caps that could lead to cuts in payments over time.

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The Senate would have to adopt a budget as well to unlock the process, and GOP leaders have indicated they have moved on from ObamaCare repeal for now.

The budget also proposes $2.6 trillion in reductions to other mandatory spending programs, including welfare and other anti-poverty programs.

[Garrett78]

1. Someone will claim we're being distracted from/by this in 3, 2, 1...

[LongTomH]

2. Responses from the other side of the aisle:

“The 2019 Republican budget scraps any sense of responsibility to the American people and any obligation to being honest. Its repeal of the Affordable Care Act and extreme cuts to health care, retirement security, anti-poverty programs, education, infrastructure, and other critical investments are real and will inflict serious harm on American families,” said Rep. John Yarmuth (D-Ky.), the ranking member on the House Budget committee.

He also pointed to the GOP tax law, which the Congressional Budget Office projected could cost as much as $1.9 trillion over a decade, as a driver of deficits.

To achieve balance, the budget plan assumes that the economy will consistently grow at 2.6 percent a year over the next decade, far higher than the CBO estimate of 1.8 percent a year, but lower than the administration’s rosy 3 percent outlook.

[Iliyah]

3. And it will affect the GOP's base

but alas, the GOP will blame Liberals, Democrats . . .

And all is good.

Sad.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

4. Is there no lock box piggy bank type accounts

the gop won't reach into? WE paid that out of our checks for 40-50 years. They are already lining up to hit 401k's again. What specifically do they think people will live on in our resting years? Seriously?
Corporate reform needs to happen. And, this is why you don't put money grubbing people in American politics and further then run them like corporations.

[0rganism]

5. welcome to your libertarian paradise, GOP dipshits

where the rich get richer, the middle class eats dirt , and the poor get nothing at all
did they think about this when they voted for our imperial overlords? nah, of course not. as long as the policies hurt people they detest at least as much as themselves, it's all good, right?

[Achilleaze]

6. republicans pissing on Americans to get more money for the already rich

sick bastards