{"id":70741,"date":"2026-09-10T15:52:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T22:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70741"},"modified":"2026-09-11T00:26:53","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T07:26:53","slug":"trump-just-promised-to-cut-off-benefits-to-half-of-all-medicare-recipients-no-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70741","title":{"rendered":"Trump Just Promised to Cut Off Benefits to Half of All Medicare Recipients &#8211; NO REALLY!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The much anticipated (by MAGA-tists) Trump-a-Palooza midterm convention for Republicans in Dallas, Texas, delivered its first day of non-stop worship services for Donald Trump. The speakers were a parade of Trump sycophants and flunkies who spent their time on stage praising Dear Leader.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Trump Just Promised to Cut Off Benefits to Half of All Medicare Recipients - NO REALLY!%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70741\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=Trump Just Promised to Cut Off Benefits to Half of All Medicare Recipients - NO REALLY!%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70741\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-big-mouth.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40185\" \/><\/p>\n<p>For his part, Trump spoke for nearly two hours, rehashing his moldy oldies from every other public address he has given over the past decade. Unfortunately for Trump and his GOP comrades, the audience for this propaganda is pitifully small. Many republican officials and candidates declined to show up. The main TV networks passed on airing it. And the organizers had to give away free tickets to fill seats.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70690\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News Shamelessly Shills for the Trump-a-Palooza While Republicans Avoid it Like the Plague<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s speech was full of the lies and insults that typically infect his oratory. He spread defamatory falsehoods about Democrats and made preposterous promises, such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/2098125579224822176\" target=\"_blank\">his illegal proposal to <em>&#8220;bribe&#8221;<\/em> voters<\/a><\/strong> to vote for his MAGA GOP confederates. But there was a little noticed campaign pledge that he snuck into his script that deserves more attention. Trump vowed to potentially kill Medicare.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll pass the Great Healthcare Plan &#8211; we call it the Great Healthcare Plan &#8211; to stop all government payments to the big insurance companies &#8211; which by the way, the insurance companies own the Democrats. They own &#8217;em &#8211; And give the money directly to the people, for you to buy your own healthcare. You&#8217;ll get much better healthcare and have money left over for yourself.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"bluesky-embed\" data-bluesky-uri=\"at:\/\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/app.bsky.feed.post\/3mv525utueq2y\" data-bluesky-cid=\"bafyreiblfqg4giku2rg7du5eqhtxn2tux3dkycfouprdbagrj6su3f3lni\">\n<p lang=\"en\">Trump: &#34;We&#39;ll pass the Great Healthcare Plan to stop all government payments to the big insurance companies&#34;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc?ref_src=embed\">Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/did:plc:4llrhdclvdlmmynkwsmg5tdc\/post\/3mv525utueq2y?ref_src=embed\">2026-09-10T02:50:26.354Z<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/embed.bsky.app\/static\/embed.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>First of all, Trump has touted his imaginary <em>&#8220;Great Healthcare Plan&#8221;<\/em> before. There is, in reality, no such plan. The concept consists entirely of his claim that money currently paid to insurance companies would go directly to patients, who would then buy their own insurance from &#8211; that&#8217;s right &#8211; insurance companies. So the companies still get the money, but consumers don&#8217;t benefit from the collective value derived from negotiating lower premiums. And Trump has the gall to accuse Democrats of being <em>&#8220;owned&#8221;<\/em> by Big Insurance? It&#8217;s Democrats who want to replace conventional insurance with Medicare for All.<\/p>\n<p>More to the point, Trump&#8217;s idea to <em>&#8220;stop all government payments to the big insurance companies&#8221;<\/em> would mean putting an end to all Medicare Advantage Plans. While there have been some controversies associated with these plans, they offer many people more and better coverage for less money, and in many cases no deductibles or co-pays.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, these plans currently account for 55% of all current Medicare policies. And they are paid for by the government via the recipient&#8217;s Medicare allotment. Therefore, they would be eliminated by Trump&#8217;s proposal. And if half of the Medicare recipients lost these benefits, the whole of the program could be put in jeopardy.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, Trump couldn&#8217;t care less about any of this, or any of the harm that it would produce. He likely has no idea what any of it is about. He is just mouthing off some rhetoric that he picked up from the Internet trolls that he follows online. And as usual, he is advocating for something that will cause more problems that it would ever have solved. Much like his failure to extend the subsidies for Obamacare, which resulted in skyrocketing premiums and lost coverage for millions of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>This is the sort of chaos that MAGA voted for. It doesn&#8217;t deliver any benefit to the American people, including the MAGA-tists who voted for it. To the contrary, it makes the lives of most people impacted by it more difficult. And with regard to healthcare, that can often mean more deadly. But it does have the benefit of making the insurance companies richer. Which reveals the truth about who is really owned by them.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=70730\" target=\"_blank\">HOW CONVENIENT! 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The speakers were a parade of Trump sycophants and flunkies who spent their time on stage praising Dear Leader. Click here to post this article on Twitter or Click here to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40185,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,361,8,16],"tags":[554,1142,1030,1133],"class_list":["post-70741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-healthcare","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-healthcare","tag-medicare","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-ioZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":68111,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68111","url_meta":{"origin":70741,"position":0},"title":"FINALLY: We Now Have Trump&#8217;s Health Care Plan &#8211; But It&#8217;s More of a Wealth Care Plan for the Rich","author":"Mark NC","date":"10\/25\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Affordable Care Act (ACA), commonly known as Obamacare, was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, 2010. 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