The right-wing policy agenda written for a new Donald Trump presidency would āgreatly accelerateā efforts to privatize Medicare
Last year, for the first time ever, a majority of Americans eligible for Medicare were on privatized Medicare Advantage plans. If Republicans win the presidential race this year, the push to fully privatize Medicare, the government health insurance program for seniors and people with disabilities, will only intensify.
Conservative operatives have already sketched out what the GOPās policy agenda would look like in the early days of a new Donald Trump presidency. As Rolling Stone has detailed, the proposed Project 2025 agenda is radically right-wing. One item buried in the 887-page blueprint has attracted little attention thus far, but would have a monumental impact on the health of Americaās seniors and the future of one of Americaās most popular social programs: a call to āmake Medicare Advantage the default enrollment optionā for people who are newly eligible for Medicare.
Such a policy would hasten the end of the traditional Medicare program, as well as its foundational premise: that seniors can go to any doctor or provider they choose. The change would be a boon for private health insurers ā which generate massive profits and growing portions of their revenues from Medicare Advantage plans ā and further consolidate corporate control over the United States health care system.
See thatās actually all wrong. Weāre going to need fewer people working with increasing automation. Weāre just going to have an āunfortunateā situation where people who cannot work ALSO cannot afford to stay alive.
Weāll have 80 year olds that just die and gosh if there was only something we could of done to save them. Tots and pears.
We could use them as a cheap source of aquarium gravel?
Not when all the fish are dead.
They will be āworkingā as Walmart greeters amongst other demeaning jobs.