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In reply to the discussion: So regarding Medicare, Medicaid, Obamacare, Social Security, [View all]yardwork
(68,967 posts)Their voters won't tolerate it. I expect to see more sneaky efforts to make money off those programs. Medicare Advantage plans are a give-away to corporations. I can imagine the GOP forcing everyone into those plans, eliminating "government" Medicare.
I suspect they won't eliminate the ACA. Too many Republicans depend on it and it's already implemented through for-profit corporations.
Medicaid will be cut. Poor people are always the first target. But even that is problematic. If a bunch of poor people become uninsured, all the hospitals will go bankrupt. Can't have that.
Expect sneaky ways for the billionaires yo profit, not wholesale program elimination. The effect on most of us will be higher costs and less choice in providers. Which, typically, the GOP will blame on Democrats next election cycle.