What Will Project 2025 Do To Medicare

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Something I ran across; People who retire on Medicare will be forced into Medicare Advantage Plans. Project 2025 will also cut back on regulations on Medicare Advantage Plans. In other words one will have to get prior authorization for a procedure which will then become more difficult with lax regulations.

Project 2025 also wants to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act which allows Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices.

A bigger light needs shined upon Project 2025.

[Aviation Pro]

1. It's silent except for two brief mentions on Social Security and Medicare

However, two of the 2025 authors, Rachel Grezsler and Stephen Moore, have advocated for increasing the full benefits age and privatization of the program.

[Lonestarblue]

3. Anything to get more money in the pockets of insurance executives with less actual medical care.

[hermetic]

2. Just got this in an email

We haven’t heard much about the massive tax breaks, giveaways, and cuts for billionaires and corporations that P2025 would usher in, while creating new taxes that would land squarely on the backs of the middle and working class.
Proposed plans include:
Doing away completely with the 15% corporate minimum tax and the 1% excise tax on stock buybacks.
Paralyzing the IRS by ending enforcement funding from the Inflation Reduction Act, which so far has already brought in over $1 billion in unpaid taxes.
Changing the tax brackets to deliver a massive tax cut to the upper brackets, letting the ultra-wealthy off the hook, while increasing taxes on working families. According to a study by the Center for American Progress:
A family of four with $100,000 income would pay $2,600 more per year, and a family of four with a $5 million income would receive a cut of $325,000.

More light, indeed.

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4. As it stands now, many Medicare beneficiaries are forced into "Advantage" plans for one reason-- savings of $300 or more

a month. Right now, I'm covered by traditional Medicare/Supplement/Drugplan, but I suspect I'll be forced to change for financial reasons within the next 5 years.

[Mersky]

5. Medicare is mentioned 51 times across three chapters or sections

Chapter 14 is where you’d find methods of funneling recipients to Medicare Advantage, taking away drug price negotiations, a conflicted preference for HMOs, and generalized references to tRump admins non-solutions to healthcare being “complicated.” Then later in the document, they talk about loosening licensing restrictions on doctors and healthcare providers, because of course.

There’s a lot more, but make no mistake, they will mess up Medicare.