{"id":49595,"date":"2023-03-10T13:28:15","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49595"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:28:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T18:28:15","slug":"a-real-solution-to-medicare-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49595","title":{"rendered":"A Real Solution To Medicare Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Federalist<\/a> posted an article about the Biden administration’s plan to solve Medicare’s funding difficulties.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

If anyone doubted President Joe Biden\u2019s commitment to running for re-election next year, they need only examine his administration\u2019s \u201cplan<\/a>\u201d for extending Medicare\u2019s solvency, published in advance of Thursday\u2019s budget release. Rather than taking a serious approach to solving Medicare\u2019s funding difficulties, the plan instead engages in political gamesmanship over the health care of millions of seniors. But an administration that wants to play games over Medicare should be careful what it wishes for because Republicans have ammunition to respond in kind.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The plan fails serious policy tests on several fronts. First, by relying largely on revenue to close shortfalls in Medicare\u2019s Hospital Insurance Trust Fund, it ignores the program\u2019s structural imbalances. None other than President Barack Obama said in 2011<\/a> that \u201cif you look at the numbers, then Medicare in particular will run out of money and we will not be able to sustain that program no matter how much taxes go up.\u201d Four years after those comments, Obama signed legislation<\/a> that restructured elements of the Medicare benefit to lower program costs. If Obama remained active in politics today, Biden would likely attack him for \u201ccutting\u201d seniors\u2019 benefits.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article suggests that the Republicans might\u00a0 have an answer to the request for higher taxes:<\/p>\n

If the Biden administration wants to engage Republicans in political games over Medicare, the president\u2019s tax returns provide the GOP with ample opportunity to respond in kind. Multiple<\/a> tax<\/a> experts<\/a> believe that Biden not only used the loophole his administration now wants to close but abused it in ways that violate IRS guidelines. For these reasons, last year I filed a whistleblower complaint<\/a> with the IRS about Biden\u2019s returns, which the IRS dismissed<\/a> within a few short weeks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If the Republicans have the intestinal fortitude to do this, it will definitely be a ‘get out the popcorn’ moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, The Federalist posted an article about the Biden administration’s plan to solve Medicare’s funding difficulties. The article reports: If anyone doubted President Joe Biden\u2019s commitment to running for re-election next year, they need only examine his administration\u2019s \u201cplan\u201d … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16351,1381,11815],"class_list":["post-49595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-biden-administrations-medicare-proposal","tag-medicare","tag-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49596,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49595\/revisions\/49596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}