#handsoffmedicare — Public Fediverse posts

@dyckron This is what happens when you let the market *solve* healthcare.
Premiums doubling overnight, people dropping meds or going blind because they can’t afford $1200/month.
Meanwhile corporate overlords and private insurers laugh all the way to the bank.
This is the US future the libs and libs-lite keep trying to drag us toward
keep medicare public. Keep fighting privatisation.
#Medicare #HandsOffMedicare #TaxTheRich #USPolitics #privitisationdisaster

'A Huge Scandal': Internal Doc Exposes Trump-Musk Hunt for Social Security Fraud as a Sham

A newly reported document shows that "anti-fraud checks" implemented at the Social Security agency found virtually no improper benefit claims—while slowing payments substantially.

from #CommonDreams
Jake Johnson
May 16, 2025

An internal #Trump administration document reportedly shows that anti-fraud checks recently installed at the #SocialSecurity agency have found just two cases of potentially improper benefit claims out of more than 110,000—a rate of 0.0018%.

The documents, first reported Thursday by #Nextgov/FCW, further undercut President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk's narrative that Social Security is brimming with fraud. #Musk falsely claimed in March that "40% of the calls into Social Security were fraudulent."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/a-huge-scandal-internal-doc-exposes-trump-musk-hunt-for-social-security-fraud-as-a-sham

#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#HandsOffMedicare
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #politics

BestoftheLeft Edition #1705: "Threatened Social Safety Nets Are Foundational to Healthy Societies"

🎧 Wherever you get your podcasts, or at bestoftheleft.com/1705

🎙 EDITOR’S NOTE: On the false moral arguments for cutting social safety nets

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#podcast #progressive #progressives #progressivepolitics #politics #uspolitics #socialsecurity #savesocialsecurity #trump #musk #doge #medicare #medicaid #handsoffsociasecurity #handsoffmedicare

Hands-off, San Francisco, April 5, 2025. City Hall, Civic Center. Some signs, etc. at the rally. "When we fight we win." Do not give up. We have to put these protests front and center. Make our objections heard--to everything this administration and the Republicans are doing to destroy America.

#handsoff #sanFrancisco #handsoffprotest #trumpprotest #trump #musk #handsoffmedicare #handsoffmedicaid #usaid #april5th #saveAmerica #democracy #california #northerncalifornia

Dr. Oz and the Plot Against Medicare

#MedicareAdvantage plans are killing seniors and bankrupting hospitals. Now the #Trump administration is preparing to make them mandatory, ending #Medicare as we know it.

from #DropSiteNews
[co-published with Truthdig]

Alexander Zaitchik
Mar 24, 2025

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/dr-oz-trump-plot-medicare-advantage-plans?r=fzerp&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

#HandsOffMedicare
#USA #US #USPolitics
#news #press #MehmetOz
#DrOz

"MAGA House Republicans are holding the American economy hostage in order to take a hatchet to programs Americans rely on every day to make ends meet." - CBS
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/04/27/maga-republicans-take-economy-hostage-ransom-demands/
#HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffSocialSecurity #HandsOffVeteransCare #HandsOffMedicare #HandsOffMedicaid
#MAGARepublicans #StopGOPLies #BananaRepublicans

The MAGA Republican Default Disaster will drive us into recession and take away our retirement savings.
https://youtu.be/2yDldPGbwug
#RepublicanDefaultDisaster #MAGARepublicans #BananaRepublicans #HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity #HandsOffMedicare
#HandsOffMedicaid
#StopGOPLies

Republicans plan to take us backwards. Their plan borrows from the fascist playbook that steals resources and freedoms from Americans to enrich corporate GOP donors.

Cut Medicaid and social security, close libraries

Lower pollution controls, Child labor, convict labor

Ban abortions

Violence: More guns
https://thedemlabs.org/2023/04/23/republican-fascist-program-takes-america-backwards/
#StopGOPLies #DemsForThePeople #AbortionRights #ClimateEmergency #ClimateCrisis #HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffSocialSecurity #HandsOffMedicare

In their own words:
#StopGOPLies #DemsForThePeople #HandsOffOurSocialSecurity #HandsOffSocialSecurity #HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffMedicare #DemCast #DemocratsDeliver

Republicans take the economy hostage. Would you pay their ransom?

Take Away: US policy is to not negotiate with terrorists. This should apply for those who would hold Medicaid and Social Security hostage for their political agenda.
#EconomyForAll #DemsForThePeople #HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffSocialSecurity
#HandsOffMedicare
#HandsOffMedicaid
#SaveMedicaid
#SaveMedicare
#SaveSocialSecurity
#Medicare
#Medicaid
#SocialSecurity
https://embed.kumu.io/4874cd1c93c094a4101b839e10c5f0cb#republicans-take-the-economy/hostage

Republicans take the economy hostage. Would you pay their ransom?

Take Away: US policy is to not negotiate with terrorists. This should apply for those who would hold Medicaid and Social Security hostage for their political agenda.
#EconomyForAll #DemsForThePeople #HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffSocialSecurity
#HandsOffMedicare
#HandsOffMedicaid
#SaveMedicaid
#SaveMedicare
#SaveSocialSecurity
#Medicare
#Medicaid
#SocialSecurity

https://thedemlabs.org/2023/03/11/republicans-take-economy-hostage-hold-social-security-medicare-medicaid-ransom/

President Biden's plan will extend the life of Medicare for a generation, without cutting benefits.
#BidenDelivers #HandsOffOurHealthcare
#HandsOffMedicare #Medicare
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/07/opinion/joe-biden-medicare.html?unlocked_article_code=culVgzla2Q32bwS2ilYfv7HXpqsffZ-RC06Y1B_LjzK3lLZI4PbLkH9oEH6CHZTfNRjmPVMdUFcSMo6QKM-lwWVKLVNeEozEBgG3Y8H8m8pQlTMLP7SEBgeX512fSitCKZjpAWxhClRHRkKh2fzolUSPCqWkKHBvitcybkOnnSYLtNkxUq7XGp2N02COk60i1Lre4hU4MvRmFQkq3Vd-jCBdexckrZN_WOThAuiNtDISAELVZue-Tgu6Wmf2ikHLfOUo0r6AFM6Wo_QagOcTa3UDDrQ0-JDc-4fPmmYm5r_CKz82wbvzlrPujE4GReLi7tY9QSOphY_EMpBOgw&smid=url-share

If Republicans try to cut Social Security or Medicare, President Biden will veto it.

#HandsOffSocialSecurity
#HandsOffMedicare

Mainstream media’s extensive reporting on the GOP’s efforts to cut Social Security and Medicare undermines protests that the claim is “dishonest”
#StopGOPLies #HandsOffOurHealthcare #HandsOffMedicare #HandsOffSocialSecurity #SocialSecurity #Medicare
https://www.mediamatters.org/social-security/mainstream-medias-extensive-reporting-gops-efforts-cut-social-security-and-medicare