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The Hartmann Report

How Project 2025 Will Change Medicare Forever

The Hartmann Report

Thom Hartmann

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🗓️ 20 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Medicare will be a thing of the past if the Republican party gets a chance to put project 2025 in motion. Based in Kiev Ukraine, Veteran War Correspondent Phil Ittner reports on Russia's war of aggression in Europe.

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0:00.0

This is the Tom Hartman Program.

0:15.0

Project 2025 wants to supersize the profit seeking Medicare Advantage, reads the headline of

0:21.8

Common Dreams,

0:23.2

Sonale-Cocala Char.

0:25.9

I always mispronounce her last name.

0:27.8

My apologies, Sonale, but she does some great writing,

0:30.2

does a great program, actually. I believe right here on free speech TV. Project 2025

0:36.3

declares that HHS, this is from Project 25 quote, a health and human

0:42.2

services is home to Medicare and Medicaid, the principal drivers

0:45.6

of our 31 trillion dollar national debt. Right. They say that these programs, quote,

0:52.4

operate as runaway entitlements that stifle medical

0:56.2

innovation, encourage fraud, and impede cost containment in addition to which their fiscal

1:01.9

future is in peril.

1:04.0

Their solution, Medicare Advantage.

1:08.0

Replace everything Medicare and Medicaid

1:11.0

with Medicare Advantage.

1:12.0

In other words, if you want health

1:14.2

insurance you have to buy it from a private health insurance company. Keep in

1:17.8

mind Medicare Advantage is not Medicare. If you have signed up for a Medicare Advantage plan, you are no longer on Medicare.

1:25.0

You are you just bought private health insurance from a company that is selling a plan that has the word Medicare in it because George Bush wrote that

1:35.2

into the law in 2003 that they could do that but it has nothing to do with Medicare

1:40.2

other than the fact that Medicare is paying the private company.

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