If Donald Trump becomes president again, Republicans' 2025 policy agenda will “greatly accelerate” efforts to privatize Medicare.

The right-wing policy agenda written for a new Donald Trump presidency would “greatly accelerate” efforts to privatize Medicare

Last year, for the first time ever, a majority of Americans eligible for Medicare were on privatized Medicare Advantage plans. If Republicans win the presidential race this year, the push to fully privatize Medicare, the government health insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities, will only intensify.

Conservative operatives have already sketched out what the GOP’s policy agenda would look like in the early days of a new Donald Trump presidency. As Rolling Stone has detailed, the proposed Project 2025 agenda is radically right-wing. One item buried in the 887-page blueprint has attracted little attention thus far, but would have a monumental impact on the health of America’s seniors and the future of one of America’s most popular social programs: a call to “make Medicare Advantage the default enrollment option” for people who are newly eligible for Medicare.

Such a policy would hasten the end of the traditional Medicare program, as well as its foundational premise: that seniors can go to any doctor or provider they choose. The change would be a boon for private health insurers — which generate massive profits and growing portions of their revenues from Medicare Advantage plans — and further consolidate corporate control over the United States health care system.

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    539·
    9 months ago

    The sad thing here is that the Democrats will let them. Because they still think they get bonus points for playing the game by the rules only they follow.

    Right now, the GOP nominee-presumptive is a piece of trash rapist, an Insurrectionist asshole who got hundreds of thousands of Americans dead. Man who is facing over 90 felony indictments, many of which are related to keeping (and let’s be honest, selling,) extremely sensitive materials.

    Yet this asshole still walks free because to put him where he belongs would be political.

    In case you’re wondering, this is why we’re fucked.

    • YeetPics@mander.xyz
      1018·
      9 months ago

      I love how you open with ‘this horrible thing being planned and pushed into existence by the republican party is AHCTUALLY the Democrats fault for allowing it’

      If it’s so easy why don’t you stop the republicunts?

      • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
        174·
        9 months ago

        I didn’t say that.

        I said the democrats won’t stop them.

        I love how you totally don’t actually argue against any of that.

        I can be angry that some one is an insurrectionist asshole, I can also be angry that the government hasnt locked said insurrectionist asshole up.

        I can be angry that the assholes are trying to fuck over Americans. I can also be angry that the dems aren’t doing enough to stop it. I’m not saying it’s easy, I’m saying it’s necessary.

        Oh, and i can’t stop them. Not alone. I’m one person, and certainly not a billionaire; and in any case the powers that are would never let me near federal office.

        • YeetPics@mander.xyz
          814·
          9 months ago

          Democrats just went and let oj kill his wife too.

          This morning I dropped my toast and the fucking Democrats just let it slide. What pricks.

      • Crikeste@lemm.ee
        63·
        9 months ago

        So the plan is to allow it because fighting against it is hard?

        Democrats are really scraping the bottom of the barrel with this “we’re less terrible than them” attitude.

        Do better.

        • uienia@lemmy.world
          51·
          9 months ago

          You are building a massive strawman here. You are the one claiming that Democrats won’t stop them, even though they absolutely will if able to.

        • dumpsterlid@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          9 months ago

          Do better

          I mean I have thought about it but honestly my sex life with my wife is totally dead and passionless and the only thing that gets me going anymore is being condescending towards progressives who have the nerve to try to change the world for better.

          I don’t mean to be such a wet blanket, but you have to understand I don’t have anything else. Plus if I admitted progressives were right that would put my entire world view into question and honestly I am too old to be an evolving person with views that change and grow. Why do I, ME, have to KEEP changing my views, can’t the world just settle on a status quo and just keep it that way? It stresses me out and I don’t think minorities are thinking about that stress when they push for progressive societal change that benefits all.

          In the same way that you would find it hard to jump into a cold lake, a world where other people are treated as equal to white men (me) is like jumping into a cold lake. You can judge me for endorsing structural violence and racism but the water is just so cold and no one cares about my feelings. I’m not used to having feelings, I am a man stranded in a terrifying and strange landscape and I need desperate people fighting for their lives and their loved one’s lives to just slowwww down and be more patient while I tip toe in.

          I am not racist but

        • YeetPics@mander.xyz
          1·
          9 months ago

          Well it’s all your fault for allowing Democrats to be that way. It doesn’t matter if you protest or don’t vote for idiots. You did this and we all blame you despite spending years of your life fighting against it.

          (Do you see how insane this sounds?)