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Irish_Dem

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1. Make high medicare co-pays for medical treatment?

Reply to Grasswire2 (Original post)

Sun Feb 23, 2025, 04:08 PM

Feb 2025

And big deductible?

So people stop getting medical care?

Just like managed care.

Then stop paying doctors so they go out of business or won't take Medicare patients.

Old people get sick and die.
Make tons of money for Musk and Trump.

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So how is Trump's decimation of Medicare-Medicaid going to begin? [View all] Grasswire2 Feb 2025 OP

Make high medicare co-pays for medical treatment? Irish_Dem Feb 2025 #1

Eliquis Frerotte Feb 2025 #2

So far, I have not seen Medicare cuts officially proposed. Medicaid cuts of about $88 B annually are proposed in Silent Type Feb 2025 #3

I was thinking that, myself synni Feb 2025 #5

Last line is so true. Can we wait these MFers out. Silent Type Feb 2025 #7

I remember several years ago when Republicans were talking about Death Squads. patricia92243 Feb 2025 #4

Their projections are always confessions synni Feb 2025 #6

Privatize it. Turn it over to United Health. multigraincracker Feb 2025 #8