(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, in response to President Biden’s speech today, which focused on protecting and expanding Social Security and lowering prescription drug prices:
“Today, the Biden Administration announced that Medicare Part B premiums will decrease next year. That is excellent news for seniors and people with disabilities who receive Medicare, most of whom have these premiums deducted directly from their Social Security payments.
Importantly, Medicare beneficiaries will now get to keep all of next year’s Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). In past years, rising Medicare premiums have often consumed most or even all of the COLA increase for many beneficiaries. But next year, thanks to Medicare’s wise decision to limit coverage of the ineffective and wildly overpriced drug Aduhelm, that will not happen.
Additionally, during today’s speech, Biden celebrated the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), which will finally give Medicare the power to negotiate lower prices on key prescription drugs.Unfortunately, every single Republican in Congress voted against the IRA. Indeed, they are promising to overturn it at the behest of their Big Pharma donors if they take control of Congress.
Biden also spoke about Social Security, contrasting Republican plans to cut benefits with Democratic plans to protect and expand them. From Rick Scott to Ron Johnson to the Republican Study Committee, Republicans are clear about their intentions to cut our earned benefits.The difference between the two Parties couldn’t be starker: Democrats want to expand Social Security and Medicare; Republicans want to cut, privatize, and ultimately end both programs.
President Dwight Eisenhower, who once wrote that “should any political party attempt to abolish social security…you would not hear of that party again in our political history,” would be ashamed to see what his party has become.”
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^^Reducing Social Security by raising the age and cutting benefits isn't the answer but it's the Republican Plan!
Medicare is another one Republicans have ruined with their privatized Medicare Advantage plans...these plans cost Medicare more per participant and provide less..they operate like HMOs or PPO you see the Advantage plan's Doctor, and HMO or PPO depending on the Company you choose essenually has a death panel that has to approve your eligibility or NOT for treatment...This is the stuff you see Joe Namath, JJ Walker hawking on these commercials..
Original Medicare you can see any Doctor in the Country, and you and your Doctor decide what treatment you need...
To anyone approaching 65 go with the original Medicare with a supplement would be my advice...
Republican Control of Congress Would Put Social Security in Grave Danger
(Washington, DC) — The following is a statement from Nancy Altman, President of Social Security Works, in response to a report from Bloomberg News that Republicans plan to use next year’s debt-limit deadline as a hostage to demand cuts to Social Security and Medicare:
“Republican politicians are dripping with animosity towards our Social Security and Medicare. Even with an election less than a month away, they can’t stop themselves from talking about their burning desire to cut and end these so-called ‘entitlements’.
They use the insider Washington term ‘entitlements’, a term with pejorative underpinnings, in hopes that voters don’t understand what they’re saying. But it’s clear what their intentions are: Reaching into the American people’s pockets and stealing their hard-earned benefits.
Republicans plan to use the debt limit as the hostage to demand these cuts, even though Social Security doesn’t add a single penny to the deficit. If Republicans take control of one or both chambers of Congress, our earned benefits are in grave danger.”
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Before you vote, think this through...What happens to seniors without Social Security and Medicare? Who’s responsible for them if the Republican government decides not to be?
This is what you get when you vote Republican, Medicare Advantage was brought to you by Newt Gingrich in the mid 1990's...Medicare advantage is tricking people to get rid of their Medicare and taking a private insurance requires pre approvals and denies care, now some doctors are fighting back and issuing a warning so you, aren't disadvantaged with private Medicare advantage.
Remember boys and girls,