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Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Privatize Medicare and Medicaid (video)

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Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Privatize Medicare and Medicaid https://nomadiceveryman.blogspot.com/2024/11/privatize-privatize-privatize-trump.html

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Privatize! Privatize! Privatize! Trump Picks Dr. Oz to Privatize Medicare and Medicaid

by Scott Creighton

Donald Trump has picked TV celebrity Dr. Oz to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in spite of the fact that he 1. has no experience running such a large agency of any kind and 2. he was recently busted shilling a fake weight loss program to his fans.

Of course, to Dr. Oz, that means TIME TO PRIVATIZE those effective programs so BIG BUSINESS can make some glorious money!

'Dr. Oz has weighed in on Medicare policy, helping to write a 2020 opinion column in Forbes arguing for a universal health coverage system, in which every American not covered by Medicaid would be enrolled in a private Medicare Advantage plan. The coverage expansion, the column said, would be financed by an “affordable 20 percent payroll tax,” and would eliminate employer health coverage and the government Medicare program.

That strategy would be far out of the mainstream of conservative health policy. In 2019, Vice President Kamala Harris, then a candidate for president, proposed a version of a “Medicare for all” plan with similarities to Dr. Oz’s 2020 idea. Instead of replacing private coverage with a government-run system, as some of her Democratic rivals had done, Ms. Harris called for allowing people to choose between a government Medicare program and plans modeled on Medicare Advantage.' NYT