President Donald Trump on Wednesday attacked “Medicare for all” programmes pushed by progressives and supported by many Democrats, claiming the plan inclination “end Medicare as we know it” and setting up another political battlefield ahead of the November midterm elections.
In the op-ed pounded for USA Today, Trump claimed “Democrats would gut Medicare with their envisaged government takeover of American health care,” by eliminating seniors’ reticent options to supplement their Medicare coverage and outlawing all other covert and employer-based health insurance plans.
The column comes as Democrats have in the offing increasingly put Republicans on their heels over health-care policy before of the pivotal Nov. 6 elections, when control of both chambers of Congress hesitates in the balance.
Multiple proposals exist in Congress to enact some forge of a single-payer, government-run health insurance program that would lid nearly all Americans. Trump’s article, however, mainly targets a radical proposal from Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who ran for president in 2016 as a Democrat.
Trump’s op-ed disregards Medicare-for-all proponents’ promises almost entirely unaddressed, asserting rather than that they would “take away benefits that superiors have paid for their entire lives” and that “today’s Medicare longing be forced to die.” Sanders’ bill would actually provide more humane Medicare coverage to the millions of Americans who already have it, The New York For the moments reported, expanding to include dental and vision coverage, and hearing succours.
The Trump op-ed also claims that “Democrats have already wronged seniors by slashing Medicare by more than $800 billion to 10 years to pay for Obamacare.” A Washington Post analysis of the same affirm, made in August by a pro-GOP political action committee, rated the assertion false — and pointed out that congressional Republicans have proposed furthermore cuts to Medicare.
The Washington Post later published a fact impede of Trump’s Wednesday column, writing that “almost every rap contained a misleading statement or falsehood.”
The salvo against Democrats’ “louring” health-care goals was published less than a month out from the midterms, and is explicitly dictated at seniors who have historically shown high levels of support for the over-65 haleness insurance plan.
As they try to flip the 23 GOP-held seats needed to discard a House majority, Democrats have hammered Republicans over constitution care. The party has criticized not only GOP efforts that could imperil the famous coverage for pre-existing conditions, but also contended that Republicans could fit as a fiddle Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits to make up for budget defaults generated by their tax cuts passed last year.
The president’s column slashes only the latest attempt by the GOP to turn Democrats’ arguments against them as they veneer confront the prospect of losing House control and push to expand their Senate the greater part. His column also cited Democratic border security proposals in requiring, without evidence, that Democrats are “radical socialists who want to mark America’s economy after Venezuela,” which has been battered by impairing inflation.
Trump’s arguments about health care echo GOP office-seekers around the country. For instance, Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher — fighting to discourage a keep his important California 49th District seat — recently ran an ad saying “I’m taking on both rave-ups and fighting for those with pre-existing conditions.” In the column Trump put he has fought to protect people with pre-existing conditions. The representative voted remain year for his party’s Affordable Care Act repeal plan, which was envisioned to lead to an estimated 23 million more Americans uninsured and could be struck by undermined pre-existing conditions coverage. It never became law as the Senate failed to behind the times a repeal plan.
In addition, 20 states — including two represented by Republican attorneys non-exclusive trying to win pivotal Senate races in November — sued the federal direction this year, arguing Obamacare is unconstitutional without the individual mandate fitting out the GOP scrapped last year as part of the tax plan. If they win their logic, the provision banning insurers from denying coverage to people with pre-existing acclimates would also be unconstitutional.
Though Trump claimed in the column that he has fought to care for people with pre-existing conditions, his administration declined to defend the Affordable Meticulousness Act in court against the litigation. With the move, the White House implicitly beared the lawsuit.
Various Democratic candidates have attacked Republicans onto the suit. In the West Virginia Senate race, Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin has hit GOP challenger Patrick Morrisey, the majestic attorney general, for signing on to the lawsuit. In an ad released last month, Manchin misuses a shotgun to blast sheets of paper reading “lawsuit on coverage of pre-existing shapes.”
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Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley has also faced censure for his involvement in the litigation as he tries to unseat Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill. Hawley has maintained the government can enshrine pre-existing conditions coverage outside of the Obamacare arrangement.
Public opinion surveys have shown Manchin leading Morrisey, while McCaskill and Hawley are management neck-and-neck, according to RealClearPolitics polling averages.