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Former aide warns: Trump cuts are 'going to screw' with seniors
Trump Picked Seniors’ Pockets and Called It “Stabilizing”The Real Decision-MakerThe relevant power here is not some abstract “market” and not the seniors who will eat the cost. It is the Trump administration, with CMS chief Mehmet Oz as the public face of the decision, ending a $3.6 billion subsidy that had been suppressing Part D premiums. That is the actual act. Everything else is spin.Trump ran on protecting Medicare “at all costs,” then his own administration chose to make drug coverage more expensive for older people on fixed incomes. That is not confusion. It is a deliberate transfer of…
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