Pat, I am so sick of the lies people make upLook, now you've even got Cathy riled up with this crap![]()
The President doesn't cut benefits, that would be congress. Many Congressional Republicans have been advocating cutting Medicare. Many more of them try to make people believe it is part of our deficit spending. The SSA actually owns a large portion of our national Debt.Where do you get this shit? Read entire sentences. LISTEN to what Trump says NOT what the talking heads with TDS say he said. Trump is NOT CUTTING ENTITLEMENTS and he NEVER SAID he was. LIES, LIES, and more LIES. You loose any credibility you might have had with comments like this.
Do you not know the difference between waste/fraud/abuse and valid claims???????? I guess you don't. Just like you don't know the difference between legal and illegal immigrants and don't know the meaning of the word RECRIPICAL.
We have a term for this in bridge. It is "double-dummy hopeless". It means that even when you can see 3 of the 4 hands, you can't make the right bid or play. You are clueless because you choose to be blind.
Stop pushing these blatant lies. It doesn't become you.
Previously, House Republicans proposed a budget with a $880 billion spending cut for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP). That budget would mean hundreds of billions of dollars would need to come out of federal health programs, which millions of Americans rely on.You and me both.
Well I happen to agree that cutting illegal aliens from Medicaid is the right thing to do if that is what Congress is talking about. But long before you cut Medicare "benefits" whatever that means, you get rid of waste/fraud/abuse and then a miracle happens and it turns out we can afford to keep the current level of "benefits".Many Congressional Republicans have been advocating cutting Medicare.
And you read the bill in its entirety and determined that all that money was coming out of Medicate, Medicare, and CHIP rather than other places AND was not targeting waste/fraud/abuse. Interesting but I doubt it.House Republicans proposed a budget with a $880 billion spending cut for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, which oversees Medicaid, Medicare, and the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
A scammer called me day. Some IRS bs. So I said you're one of those scammers. aren't you?What we need to get rid of (while we are at it, and I'll admit it is a personal pet peeve) is the scammers who call saying they represent a medical company and understand I need a back brace... which they will gladly send, and Medicare will pay for it.... "You DO have Medicare, don't you?" But if you pin them down, they can never tell you which doctor ordered the appliance and they never seem to have your information handy "...so could you remind us of your address and SSN?" And yet Medicare will PAY this scam. Those folks who dare call me with THAT scam (or similar) will get an earful of lectures. Which usually falls on deaf ears, but it feels great the chew them out. When I need to get a back brace, it will be because my orthopedic specialist and I discussed it and determined that it was the best course of action. And in that case, I will have a prescription in hand and will know who prescribed it. They are always calling me or my wife with some scam or another of that sort. And the funny thing about them is they ALWAYS have a foreign accent and the caller ID always says "UNKNOWN."
Sorry, got on my soap box for a minute there. But that counts as either fraud or abuse right there.