DEMS/MEDICARE/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Donald Trump is stepping up his attack on Democrats over a health care proposal called Medicare for All, claiming it ‘would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid for their entire lives.’ Trump, omitting any mention of improved benefits for seniors that Democrats promise, writes in an op-ed published Wednesday in USA Today, ‘The Democrats’ plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised.’ But Medicare for All means different things to different Democrats. The plan pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders, the Vermont independent who challenged Hillary Clinton for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, would expand Medicare to cover almost everyone in the country, and current Medicare recipients would get improved benefits. Other Democratic plans would allow people to buy into a new government system modeled on Medicare, moving toward the goal of coverage for all while leaving private insurance in place.”
–The Associated Press, “Trump Trashes Democrats’ Medicare for All Plan in Op-Ed,” The New York Times online, October 10, 2018