Throughout the year, we have seen
Democrats across the country uniting around a new legislative proposal that
would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid
for their entire lives.
Dishonestly called “Medicare
for All ,” the Democratic proposal would establish a government-run,
single-payer health care system that eliminates all private and employer-based
health care plans and would cost an astonishing
I also made a solemn promise to our
great seniors to protect
Medicare . That is why I am fighting so hard against the Democrats'
plan that would eviscerate
Medicare . Democrats have already harmed seniors by slashing Medicare
by more than $800
billion over 10 years to pay for Obamacare. Likewise, Democrats
would gut Medicare with their planned government takeover of American
health care.
The
Democrats' plan threatens America's seniors
The Democrats' plan means that
after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to
depend on the benefits they were promised. By eliminating Medicare as a program
for seniors, and outlawing the ability of Americans to enroll in private and
employer-based plans, the Democratic plan would inevitably lead to the
massive rationing of health care. Doctors and hospitals would be put out of
business. Seniors would lose access to their favorite doctors. There would be
long wait lines for appointments and procedures. Previously covered care would
effectively be denied.
In practice, the Democratic Party’s
so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None. Under the
Democrats' plan, today’s Medicare would be forced to die.
The Democrats' plan also would mean the
end of choice for seniors over their own health care decisions. Instead,
Democrats would give total power and control over seniors’ health care
decisions to the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.
Next, the Democrats would eliminate
every American’s private and employer-based health plan. It is right there in
their proposed legislation: Democrats outlaw
private health plans that offer the same benefits as the government
plan.
Americans might think that such an
extreme, anti-senior, anti-choice and anti-consumer proposal for
government-run health care would find little support among Democrats in
Congress.
Unfortunately, they would be
wrong: 123
Democrats in the House of Representatives — 64 percent of
House Democrats — as well as 15 Democrats
in the Senate have already formally co-sponsored this legislation.
Democratic nominees for governor in Florida, California and Maryland are
all campaigning in support of it, as are many Democratic congressional
candidates.
Democrats
want open-borders socialism
The truth is that the centrist
Democratic Party is dead. The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to
model America’s economy after Venezuela.
If Democrats win control of
Congress this November, we will come dangerously closer to socialism in
America. Government-run health care is just the beginning.
Democrats are also
pushing massive government control of education, private-sector
businesses and other major sectors of the U.S. economy.
Every single citizen will be harmed
by such a radical shift in American culture and life. Virtually everywhere it
has been tried, socialism has brought suffering, misery and decay.
Indeed, the Democrats' commitment
to government-run health care is all the more menacing to our seniors and our
economy when paired with some Democrats' absolute commitment to
end enforcement of our immigration laws by abolishing Immigration and
Customs Enforcement. That means millions more would cross our borders illegally
and take advantage of health care paid for by American taxpayers.
Today’s Democratic Party is for
open-borders socialism. This radical agenda would destroy American
prosperity. Under its vision, costs will spiral out of control. Taxes will
skyrocket. And Democrats will seek to slash budgets for seniors’ Medicare,
Social Security and defense.
Republicans believe that a Medicare
program that was created for seniors and paid for by seniors their entire lives
should always be protected and preserved. I am committed to resolutely
defending Medicare and Social Security from the radical socialist plans of the
Democrats. For the sake of our country, our prosperity, our seniors and
all Americans — this is a fight we must win.
Donald J. Trump is the president of
the United States. Follow him on Twitter: @realDonaldTrump
The “fight we must win” means winning votes on November 6 for
candidates opposed to “Medicare For All.” (The bill and related sites are here ).
As soon as our President’s op-ed was published, the mainstream
media leaped into action to point out all the inaccuracies and false
information in his op-ed. Among them were NPR , LA Times, and Chicago Tribune . For
example, the LA Times slammed the piece with “Trump's USA Today op-ed on Medicare is full of lies — and USA Today
should not have published it.” Hmm. It was apparent just scrolling through the
search results that these articles were in the same echo chamber in their mission to discredit
Trump’s op-ed.
So I searched for Betsy McCaughey , who was my go-to resource
when attempting to decipher the Obamacare legislation. Sure enough, she was on
the job at Townhall last month. Here’s
her take titled “The Medicare-for-All Hoax .” I’ll go with her and President
Trump’s analysis over NPR's and the LA Times' any day of the week.
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