Claim: President Joe Biden claimed in Thursday’s State of the Union address that he will stop “anyone” who tries to cut Medicare.
Verdict: False. Biden has moved aggressively to cut Medicare Advantage, an increasingly popular Medicare option for older Americans.
biden I went out for a short run It’s the well-worn rhetoric that Republicans are using to cut Medicare and Social Security, two popular entitlement programs.
Imagine the future of home care and elderly care. That way, seniors and people with disabilities can stay in their homes and family caregivers can get compensated accordingly.
Tonight, let’s all agree to stand up for our seniors once again!
Many of my Republican friends want to put Social Security in jeopardy.
If anyone here wants to cut Social Security or Medicare or raise the retirement age, I will stop them.
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46th president ignored He also noted that his administration is moving aggressively to cut funding for Medicare Advantage. Medicare Advantage often offers “popular” private insurance options that can provide better coverage and health care options compared to traditional Medicare.
Conservative groups and lawmakers have pointed out the apparent hypocrisy.
Heritage Action writes: @joe biden And it is Democrats who are aggressively cutting Medicare Advantage benefits. Standardizing private Medicare Advantage plans means handing over health care choices to the government. ”
fact: @joe biden And it is Democrats who are aggressively cutting Medicare Advantage benefits.
Standardizing private Medicare Advantage plans means handing over health care choices to the government. #SOTUhttps://t.co/i7cM2Swe47
— Heritage Action (@Heritage_Action) March 8, 2024
Rep. Kevin Hahn (R-Okla.), Chairman of the Republican Research Committee (RSC), said:[I]It was never about lowering prices or providing better quality care. It was always important to expand the government as much as possible. ”
👇👇 It was never about lowering prices, it was never about providing better quality care, it was always about expanding government as much as possible. https://t.co/lSLc0tGZLu
— Congressman Kevin Hahn (@repkevinhern) March 8, 2024
March 2024, Americans for Tax Reform (ATR) and 15 other conservative groups voiced sound He opposes Biden’s proposed cuts to Medicare Advantage. Robert Moffitt, senior research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, said: I got it. Donald Berwick, former Obama Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator, recently said he believes Medicare Advantage is a threat to traditional Medicare.
“I want Medicare Advantage to be slowed down or stopped now, or at least forced to go with a better insurance company,” he said.
Progressive lawmakers such as Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wis.), Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), and Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) also weigh in on the popularity of Medicare Advantage. They have expressed similar concerns about being a threat to Medicare.
bull elk project I have written About the benefits of Medicare Advantage over Medicare:
MA is truly a model of a government program that works for people. This is his one of the most successful public-private partnerships in American history. And because it is much more efficient than original Medicare, it will help ensure the Medicare program reaches younger Americans. Research shows that the Medicare program could be extended by: 17 years If original Medicare was more like Medicare Advantage. [Emphasis added]
FreedomWorks’ Jason Pai writes that having more Americans switch to Medicare Advantage could help. ease National debt:
At a time when the national debt has reached this level, $34 trillion, it is natural for policymakers to seek cost reductions. But when it comes to health care for seniors, we need real reform across all Medicare services (rather than cutting Medicare Advantage under the guise of “reform” for rhetorical effect). There is still time to cure this financial disease before the entire system needs to be changed to Cavendish bananas.
Moreover, Biden may have forgotten who he is. sponsored The bill, which he introduced in 1975 while he was a senator from Delaware, died and then called for the review and reauthorization, or repudiation, of federal programs that would include Social Security and Medicare. was. The proposal is strikingly similar to an original proposal by Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), which Biden has frequently attacked.
“We need to…start reviewing our existing programs to determine whether they are still effective and whether they are worth the money we put into them. We have to get rid of things,” Biden said in introducing the 1975 bill.
At a press conference in February 2023, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said: Said When asked about Biden’s 1975 bill, he said, “The president tried to protect Medicare and Social Security from cuts, and he repeated that in the State of the Union. He’s been very clear in recent years.”Rick Scott has the opposite opinion,” Jean-Pierre told reporters. “That’s what we’re seeing from Scott.”
Sean Moran is a policy reporter at Breitbart News. Follow him on Twitter @SeanMoran3.
