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Related: About this forumTrump proposes big cuts to health programs for poor, elderly and disabled
Source: Washington Post
Trump proposes big cuts to health programs for poor, elderly and disabled
By Amy Goldstein and Jeff Stein March 11 at 7:03 PM
The Trump administration is proposing a sharp slowdown in Medicaid spending as part of a broad reduction in the governments investment in health care, calling for the public insurance for the poor to morph from an entitlement program to state block grants even after a Republican Congress rejected the idea.
The budget released by the White House on Monday also calls for a sizable reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that President Trump has consistently promised to protect. Most of the trims relate to changing payments to doctors and hospitals and renewing efforts to ferret out fraud and wasteful billing oft-cited targets by presidents of both parties.
In keeping with Trumps promise in last months State of the Union address to halt the spread of HIV over the next decade, the budget includes an initial installment of $291 million next year targeted to communities where the virus is continuing to infect people not getting proper treatment the rural parts of seven states, including Mississippi; the District of Columbia; Puerto Rico and 48 hot-spot counties scattered throughout the country.
However, the spending plan would cut funding for global AIDS programs while slashing expenditures on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by about 10 percent.
Strategies the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar advocate to curb the rising price of prescription drugs are part of the budget. But spending on the National Institutes of Health, a longtime favorite of lawmakers of both parties, would be reduced by $4.5 billion, with the National Cancer Institute proposed to absorb the largest chunk of that cut. Funding for pediatric cancer research, however, would increase by $50 million for the next fiscal year.
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By Amy Goldstein and Jeff Stein March 11 at 7:03 PM
The Trump administration is proposing a sharp slowdown in Medicaid spending as part of a broad reduction in the governments investment in health care, calling for the public insurance for the poor to morph from an entitlement program to state block grants even after a Republican Congress rejected the idea.
The budget released by the White House on Monday also calls for a sizable reduction for Medicare, the federal insurance for older Americans that President Trump has consistently promised to protect. Most of the trims relate to changing payments to doctors and hospitals and renewing efforts to ferret out fraud and wasteful billing oft-cited targets by presidents of both parties.
In keeping with Trumps promise in last months State of the Union address to halt the spread of HIV over the next decade, the budget includes an initial installment of $291 million next year targeted to communities where the virus is continuing to infect people not getting proper treatment the rural parts of seven states, including Mississippi; the District of Columbia; Puerto Rico and 48 hot-spot counties scattered throughout the country.
However, the spending plan would cut funding for global AIDS programs while slashing expenditures on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention by about 10 percent.
Strategies the president and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar advocate to curb the rising price of prescription drugs are part of the budget. But spending on the National Institutes of Health, a longtime favorite of lawmakers of both parties, would be reduced by $4.5 billion, with the National Cancer Institute proposed to absorb the largest chunk of that cut. Funding for pediatric cancer research, however, would increase by $50 million for the next fiscal year.
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Trump proposes big cuts to health programs for poor, elderly and disabled (Original Post)
Eugene
Mar 2019
OP
Damn, just stealing from us wasn't enough, now he wants to kill us for his fun and profit.
lark
Mar 2019
#1
And meanwhile I understand he's looking to huge increases in military spending.
PoindexterOglethorpe
Mar 2019
#5
lark
(23,155 posts)1. Damn, just stealing from us wasn't enough, now he wants to kill us for his fun and profit.
Fucking worst person in the world!
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)2. Got to pay for the $1.9 trillion tax cut to the wealthiest.
Need to get rid of those with little or nothing so there is more for those with it all.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,789 posts)3. The MAGAts are too stupid to see that they are getting fucked.....
Right up the anal orifice. Serves then right for the "poor" decisions they made in 2016 and now by following this con man.
FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)4. WE are going to suffer for everything THEY are doing.
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,895 posts)5. And meanwhile I understand he's looking to huge increases in military spending.
That is what is destroying this country. With all due respect to people who serve, we don't need a military that is more than half of our budget.
SWBTATTReg
(22,166 posts)6. Especially when our military spending exceeds that of the next 8 largest militaries in the world ...
today. Eight of the next largest militaries in the world combined!! There's something wrong about this.
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)7. Pure Greedy Evil
That Orange dumbbell is stupidity personified.