Democrats’ Health Care Plan Would ‘Totally Obliterate Medicare,’ Trump Says
Fred Lucas
Society, Americas
Is that true?
Charles McLaughlin, a 71-year-old Marine veteran of the Vietnam War, recalls how useful Medicare and Medicare Advantage were when he was fighting another battle, this one with cancer.
“I know a lot about Medicare and the supplement. I used it for breathing tubes, feeding tubes, stitches, staples, MRIs, CAT scans, blood tests, hydration shots, chemo treatments, radiation treatments,” the Lighthouse Point, Florida, resident said during a rally with President Donald Trump on Thursday in The Villages, Florida, a retirement community near Orlando.
Trump invited him to the stage to speak at an event that culminated in the president signing an executive order to strengthen Medicare and Medicare Advantage, the health care program for people 65 and older, at a time when many Democrats support a “Medicare for All” plan to expand the program to everyone.
“I also want to say: My family, financially, would have been destroyed without Medicare,” the retired Marine said, adding:
The politicians on the left are pushing Medicare for All. I say, the result would be no Medicare at all. It will collapse under the load of the system. It will overload it. The lines would be incredible.
Who knows, I probably wouldn’t be here.
There’s no such thing as “free,” period.
Trump said, “They like you.” McLaughlin answered, “What’s not to like?”
Declaring Medicare “under siege,” Trump signed an executive order after an hourlong speech.
“We are making your Medicare even better, and we are not letting anyone take it away from you,” Trump said. “These people on the other side are totally crazy. They want to take it away and give you lousy health care.”
He added: “Medicare is under threat like never before.”
“Almost every major Democrat in Washington has backed a massive government health care takeover that would totally obliterate Medicare,” the president said.
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