https://www.europesays.com/2078547/ As Republican Medicaid proposal advances in Congress, Colorado’s health officials worry about potential impact #america #DonaldTrump #Entertainment #FederalGovernment #health #HealthCare #medicaid #medicare #PresidentTrump #sports #trump #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA
Kayla is right! Nobody's healthcare is safe with #Medicaid and #medicare being cut and #ACA subsidies ending (which will see a lot of people priced out of private plans).
Healthcare facilities from community hospitals to speech therapy clinics will fold without reimbursement from public insurance.
When public insurance is cut people don't stop needing and receiving care; the hospital stops getting paid. Then it goes under for everybody.
Today I give thanks to the amazing protesters who are at the the Energy and Commerce Committee hearing that is currently underway.
They are trying to cut Medicare. We must shine a light on this to stop them!
My mother had stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and Medicare paid for the care that kept her alive for 2 years. I am so grateful.
We should be EXPANDING medicare, not gutting it!
Senator Rick Scott, (R-Hell) who made untold wealth from Medicare and Medicaid through criminal actions, smears Medicaid recipients with accusations they 'Sit on their butt at home'.
Millions of working poor are on Medicaid, millions more get relivef through Medicaid ACA expansion.
Meanwhile, Rick Scott's pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times during the HCA Medicare/Medicaid criminal fraud case.
On March 19, 1997, investigators from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Internal Revenue Service, and the Department of Health and Human Services served search warrants at Columbia/HCA facilities in El Paso and on dozens of doctors with suspected ties to the company. Eight days after the initial raid, Scott signed his last SEC report as a hospital executive. Four months later, the board of directors pressured him to resign as chairman and CEO. He was succeeded by Thomas F. Frist Jr. Scott was paid $9.88 million in a settlement, and left owning 10 million shares of stock then worth more than $350 million. The directors had been warned in the company's annual public reports to stockholders that incentives Columbia/HCA offered doctors could run afoul of a federal anti-kickback law passed in order to limit or eliminate instances of conflicts of interest in Medicare and Medicaid.
During Scott's 2000 deposition, he pleaded the Fifth Amendment 75 times. In settlements reached in 2000 and 2002, Columbia/HCA pleaded guilty to 14 felonies and agreed to a $600+ million fine in what was at the time the largest health care fraud settlement in U.S. history. Columbia/HCA admitted systematically overcharging the government by claiming marketing costs as reimbursable, by striking illegal deals with home care agencies, and by filing false data about use of hospital space. It also admitted to fraudulently billing Medicare and other health programs by inflating the seriousness of diagnoses and to giving doctors partnerships in company hospitals as a kickback for the doctors referring patients to HCA. It filed false cost reports, fraudulently billed Medicare for home health care workers, and paid kickbacks in the sale of home health agencies and to doctors to refer patients. In addition, it gave doctors "loans" never intending to be repaid, free rent, free office furniture, and free drugs from hospital pharmacies.
In late 2002, HCA agreed to pay the United States government $631 million, plus interest, and $17.5 million to state Medicaid agencies, in addition to $250 million paid up to that point to resolve outstanding Medicare expense claims. In all, civil lawsuits cost HCA more than $2 billion to settle; at the time, this was the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history
Both #Trump & #RFKJr, the #HHS secretary, have been falsely claiming that #Democrats have done nothing about high #drug #prices. Democrats passed legislation to allow #Congress to negotiate on the price of some drugs in #Medicare during the #Biden administration.
In fact TV Dr Oz is now pointing to the #IRA [Inflation Reduction Act] which was the Biden bill.
On this Day in Social Security History:
#SocialSecurityat90
#StrongerTogether
5/12/1933 The Federal Emergency Relief Administration was created with an appropriation of $500,000,000. https://users.nber.org/~confer/2004/CR04/WallisFishbackKantor_NewDeal.pdf
5/12/1933 The Agriculture Adjustment Act created the Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
https://federalism.org/encyclopedia/no-topic/agricultural-adjustment-act-of-1933
5/12/1952 H.R. 7800 was introduced by Representative Doughton, Chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means. https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v15n9/v15n9p3.pdf
5/12/1981 "The Administration offered another legislative package, with 13 additional proposals for Social Security programs, virtually all of which were cuts of various types. Several of these proposals were quite dramatic ..."
https://www.ssa.gov/history/studentbenefit.html
5/12/2009 The Social Security Board of Trustees today released its annual report.
https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/TR/2009/
5/12/2015 SSA.gov Frequently Asked Questions Website Enhancement Selected for the ClearMark Award of Distinction.
https://www.ssa.gov/agency/awards/#year2015
Center For Plain Language
More Social Security history: https://www.ssa.gov/history & #SSAHistGWC
#SocialSecurity #History #Disability #Retirement #Medicare #Unemployment #insurance #heatlhcare #NewDeal #OTD #SSDI #OASDI #equity #justice Social Security Administration
#Trump said on social media on Monday that #DrugPrices would be cut by 59%.
The estimate followed comments he made on Sunday that he would sign the order pursuing "most favored nation" pricing, resulting in cuts of 30% to 80%.
The White House did not specify any targets.
The #ExecutiveOrder differed from what drugmakers had been expecting.
Four #lobbyist sources told Reuters they were expecting an executive order that called for "most favored nation" pricing on a subset of #Medicare #drugs.
Social services like Medicare and Medicaid aren’t about “getting your money’s worth”.
They’re about living in a society. Recognizing that some people require more support than others, and that providing that support benefits everyone.
People are not “things” to enhance your investment.
"Trump early next week is expected to sign an executive order directing aides to pursue the initiative, called 'most favored nation,' for a selection of drugs within the Medicare program. The idea would use the administration’s authorities to force prices down."
Did Medicare stop negotiating drug prices for 10 expensive drugs? 
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/07/trump-sweeping-medicare-drug-price-plan-00334167
From NPR on 
:
#RFKjr says autism database to use #Medicare, #Medicaid info
The National Institutes of Health will partner with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to create a database of Americans with autism, using insurance claims, medical records and smartwatch data.
An #autism tribunal.
Disgusting & dangerous.
#NIH #CMS
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/08/nx-s1-5391310/kennedy-autism-registry-database-hhs-nih-medicare-medicaid
The dept said the #NIH & the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services will partner to build a real-world data platform enabling advanced research across #claims #data, electronic #MedicalRecords, & wearable health-monitoring #devices.
The project is part of a wider $50M #research effort #RFKJr is launching to identify the causes of #autism, which he characterizes as an *epidemic* that can be prevented.
Very dangerous
Federal #health agencies will create a #registry of #autism patients enrolled in #Medicare & #Medicaid that researchers will use to *study* the *causes* of autism spectrum disorder, #HHS Secy #RFKJr said on Wednesday.
#law #privacy #HIPAA #Vaccines #science #medicine #ConspiracyTheories #eugenics #Trump #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/nih-cms-partner-understand-autism-with-medicare-medicaid-data-2025-05-07/
LIBERALS WILL DOWNPLAY EVERYTHING
EUGENICS is the effort to maim and kill people by all means necessary so only the strong and wealthy survive.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS “SOFT” #EUGENICS
there is and has always been the need by sociopaths to kill everybody they deem weak and undeserving.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/may/04/maga-soft-eugenics
that’s why when i call eugenics the #GOP #republicans plot to kill #Obamacare #Medicaid #Medicare i mean it.
health care is a human right, not an eugenics strategy.
The #budget of the Ctr for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services would be slashed by $674M, but the #Trump budget claims the cuts would have *no impact* on providing #benefits to those enrolled in the #HealthInsurance programs.
Rather, it says, the budget “eliminates funding that had been used to carry out non-statutory, wasteful & woke activities,” in the 1st time a presidential budget has used the word “woke” in describing priorities. The budget also “eliminates #HealthEquity - focused activities.”
#Trump is set to propose $163 billion in cuts to non-defense #DiscretionarySpending for the 2026 fiscal year in what's known as a "skinny budget" Friday.
The cuts are for spending #Congress authorizes each year—which does not include spending on safety nets like #Medicare, #Medicaid & #SocialSecurity.
The cuts…represent a 22.6% cut in projected #spending for the current fiscal year [as if costs weren’t going up]. They were confirmed by the White House #OMB….
#USpol
https://www.npr.org/2025/05/02/nx-s1-5384318/trump-budget-cuts
#RFK has more catastrophes in store: "#Medicaid currently covers over 60% of all nursing home residents. In 2024 alone, Medicaid & #Medicare together spent $231 billion caring for those living w/#Alzheimer’s & related #dementias — accounting for 64% of total dementia care costs. This [is] memory care units. It’s in-home support services. It’s home health aides helping someone bathe w/dignity. It’s respite care giving exhausted family #caregivers one day to breathe."
Facts People Facts - #ElonMusk was a permanent fixture in the early weeks of the administration. But he quickly became a #political liability. His mass #firings and chaotic rehiring of some #federal #workers are now estimated to have cost #taxpayers $135 billion — wiping out most of the $160 billion that #DOGE claims it saved. #government #politics #maga #economy #medicare #medicaid #healthcare #dipomacy #knowledge #expertise #skills
@ProPublica
Its not incompetence, they might mess up the grand plan.
Its a basic rule of a crime family; you can do what ever you want as long as it is not messing with the Dons plan. another words, stay in your lane and you will be ok.
remember the grand plan, raid the #SocialSecurity , #medicare and #USPS retirement fund. These cons shall never show up in the media. As long as your cons dont impact these you will be fine.
"They are deadly serious about this. They are planning to throw millions of people off their insurance in order to afford a trillion dollar tax cut for the wealthiest 1%.:
-Sen Murphy
"Medicaid cuts would result in widespread coverage losses, which could lead to 15,400 deaths due to work reporting requirements or roughly 34,200 deaths from reduced federal funding each year."
#Medicare #Health #TaxTheRich #Republicans #Resist #GOPDeathCult #USPol
https://www.americanprogress.org/article/congressional-republicans-proposals-to-slash-medicaid-could-cost-tens-of-thousands-of-lives/
Both sources, who were not authorized to speak publicly, said they expected the policy to come from the agency that oversees #Medicare and #Medicaid health programs.
The first source said he had been told directly by govt #health officials that they were exploring such a policy, which he described as a mid-level priority for the #Trump Administration as it tries to lower #drug prices.
