'Finally told the truth': GOP senator mistakenly admits he wants to 'cut Medicare'

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By David Edwards
Published April 1, 2025 12:01 PM ET

Rep. Katherine Clark (D-MA), the House minority whip, called out Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) after he accidentally admitted Republicans want to "cut Medicare."

During a Tuesday interview on CNBC, Cassidy was asked how Republicans would pay for the trillions of dollars in tax cuts that President Donald Trump has demanded.

"If you add all that up, the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget said that that would cut revenue by somewhere between five and $11.2 trillion over the next 10 years," the CNBC host told the GOP senator.

https://www.rawstory.com/medicare-cuts-2671652045/?utm_source=superhead

Hey Cassidy do you know anything about the history of your state lets say back during/ after the Civil War...........ever read a book called :
Injustices
The Supreme Court's History of Comforting the Comfortable and Afflicting the Afflicted
by By Ian Millhiser · 2016

but I think you know the history of your state, maybe just maybe you should read the first 40 pages of this book to refresh your memory.........it about sums up what you are trying to do now................you can go pound sand................I pay out of my Social Security check into the republican donut hole for drugs...........that cost pennies to produce and it only takes one molecule to make it a generic................ your nothing more than a con artist trying to hide the pea under the shell while you move it around...........big pharma owes you..........just like Citizens United owns you.................

[Irish_Dem]

1. The billionaires refuse to pay for sick old people.

Old people are useless eaters, they don't make the billionaires rich

[Mike 03]

2. Rick Scott, too, I think. A number of senators, for years, have said they

want to cut Medicare (and SS and Medicaid).

[AnnaLee]

3. One thing that is forgotten about cutting Medicare

Doctors will drop out of the assignment status and force seniors to eat any extra charges over the, now reduced, Medicare payable amount. When there are no doctors that can take the hit, there will be no doctors available for people who need costs to remain controlled.

Advantage wins and then the advantage plans directly cut back coverage and begin a large increase in costs of plans to recipients. Large numbers of elderly will join the ranks of those who cannot afford heathcare. Welcome a return to low longevity for Americans.

[Comrade Citizen]

4. He should look to Louisiana 100 years ago

Huey Long initiated the expansion of the state’s two Charity Hospitals to create a network of public hospitals accessible to the poor. Capacity at New Orleans’ Charity Hospital was more than doubled, reducing the death rate by 30 percent.

Through the Board of Health, Long tripled funding for public healthcare. The state’s free health clinics grew from 10 in 1926 to 31 in 1933, providing free immunizations to 67 percent of the rural population.

[tanyev]

5. And he's a GD doctor.