Under the program, insurers and doctors can negotiate to move patients to a private insurance stream. Patients don’t get a say.
Trump Created A Program To Privatize Medicare Without Patients’ Consent. Biden Is Keeping It Going.
Previously:
Congress ‘Asleep at the Switch’ as Biden Continues Trump-Era Ploy to Privatize Medicare
Biden moves forward with Trump Medicare privatization plan
Buzzfeed is a little behind (I first blogged about it, in November 2021), but here’s a reminder.
Dandelion Salad by Ralph Nader The Nader Page, Mar. 12, 2021 March 16, 2021
Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future.
Perfidy Meets Putty – Congressional Democrats Betray Voters, by Ralph Nader
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