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MaggieD

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7. Yep 35 billion per year for 10 years

Reply to Unknown Beatle (Reply #6)

Sun Sep 7, 2014, 03:24 AM

Sep 2014

... Allocated to for profit insurance companies to privatize Medicare (subsidies to so-called Medicare advantage plans). All paid for by the tax payer.

If they can privatize it they can move to Ryan's voucher program. The next step in eliminating Medicare altogether.

The ACA actually backs most of these subsidies out (another reason why republicans loathe the ACA). Obama has delayed some of the back out, but it will eventually happen.

I'll do an ask me anything about Medicare policy when I can.

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WTF ...144 [View all] pbmus Sep 2014 OP

Okay this is my area of expertise.... MaggieD Sep 2014 #1

Thanks for your comment and welcome to DU pbmus Sep 2014 #2

Thanks - I'm not really new MaggieD Sep 2014 #3

Sometimes these blogs can be extremely self destructive ... pbmus Sep 2014 #5

Wow! MaggieD! Unknown Beatle Sep 2014 #6

Yep 35 billion per year for 10 years MaggieD Sep 2014 #7

Wow! C Moon Sep 2014 #4

Yep, and that doesn't even count the fraud, the most common of which is ... Scuba Sep 2014 #8

And yet many at DU think that the ACA is the best law ever passed Doctor_J Sep 2014 #9

Can you please provide a link to the relevant story? Orsino Sep 2014 #10

This might help . pbmus Sep 2014 #11