This is the Tom Hartman program.

Donald Trump, as I predicted, is working as fast and as furiously as he can on behalf of the health insurance companies to destroy Medicare

before it has an opportunity to become Medicare for all.

And the way that they're doing this is back in 2005, you know, George W Bush hates Medicare too.

He tried to privatize Social Security on as long,

I mean the entire Republican Party is long,

ever since Medicare came along in the late 60s

in the LPG administration as part of the

great society, the Republican Party has been on record saying this is socialism, it's a

terrible thing, you know, big companies should have an opportunity to make a

profit off you're getting sick and or you are

staying healthy for that matter. So what they did in 2005 I believe it was was

they created this Medicare Part C which didn't exist, it wasn't part of Medicare before, and Medicare

Part C is not actually Medicare.

It means you drop out of the Medicare system, you probably don't even realize you've done

that, you drop out of the Medicare system and you sign up for

insurance with a private for-profit health insurance company. Some of them are

not-for-profit. Kaiser offers them too, but basically you're signing up for

private health insurance. The upside is that some of these

private health insurance companies can offer things like vision and hearing aids and stuff

like that. The downside is that they typically, because these are private health insurance companies and they've got to make their 20% skim off the top to pay their executives their million dollar salaries and to pay their stockholders their dividends.

If you get sick, if you get seriously sick sick you can end up five ten fifteen twenty or

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