GOP Obamacare repeal bill betrays key Trump campaign promise

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During the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump stumped hard on promises not to touch Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. There are about 59 million Social Security beneficiaries in the US now, and Medicare provides health coverage to 56 million, and Medicaid 71 million, including 14 million covered under the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion.

“I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me,” Trump tweeted in 2015, following up with: “Huckabee is a nice guy but will never be able to bring in the funds so as not to cut Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. I will.”

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Within the first 70 days days of his presidency, Trump has followed through on another campaign promise, dismantling Obamacare, by promoting a repeal bill. However, the pursuit of that goal has led him to break his promises to fully protect Medicare and Medicaid. The repeal bill makes significant cuts to Medicaid coverage and shrinks Medicare funding.
The AHCA hurts Medicare and Medicaid

Known as the American Health Care Act, the bill would repeal much of the ACA (known as Obamacare) if Congress approves it, including wiping out the Medicaid expansion by removing coverage for an additional 14 million people. This would violate the campaign promise not to cut Medicaid.

On the Medicare side, President Trump, despite numerous promises to save the federal health insurance program for those over 65, is supporting a bill that would strip Medicare of a key funding source, a 0.9% surtax on earnings over $200,000 that would have taken in $117 billion in the next decade. According to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, removing this funding would cause Medicare’s Part A fund, which helps with hospital costs, to be insolvent two years early, in 2023. As a result, it would have to pay out 14% less to providers, potentially crippling seniors’ ability to receive care.

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https://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-obamacare-repeal-bill-betrays-key-trump-campaign-promise-125941347.html

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Until they actually see a difference these deplorable will still support him, maybe..

[gopiscrap]

1. nothing trump says is ever true

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2. There is nothing American about this AHCA - how about UAHCA -

As Unamerican as you can get - or maybe like most drugs - one such popular script...love me some liver damage...

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a severe infection or illness; or
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The cure is worse than the disease....