Project 2025: Eliminates Medicaid? Privatizes Medicare? Trump: Cut Social Security?

As a retired American who relies on Social Security as a partial source of my income and Medicare for my health insurance, I don’t trust the MAGA political party to protect Social Security (SS), Medicare, and Medicaid.

Despite Trump’s claims since 2016 that he won’t cut SS, each of his proposed budgets included cuts while in office. It’s difficult to predict what Trump would actually do to protect these necessary programs. The MAGA/RNC platform includes a statement about protecting SS and Medicare but excludes Medicaid, a program that serves over 80 million Americans. This exclusion aligns with the Project 2025 goal of eliminating Medicaid.

Despite the looming funding issue, Project 2025 says little about SS but has much to say about Medicare. It proposes that the private insurance option, Medicare Advantage (MA), become the preferred program. Since this option was offered in 1997 as Medicare Part C, there have been many reports of denied medical services, higher out-of-pocket costs, and limited access because of preferred networks. Additionally, the MA insurance companies have overcharged Medicare billions of dollars since their inclusion [464]. Project 2025 calls for eliminating Biden’s regulations designed to curb fraud.

In the last month of his presidency, Trump pardoned multiple convicted health executives who stole billions of dollars from the Medicare program and, in several cases, endangered the health and safety of seniors.

Trump and his MAGA sycophants cannot be trusted to protect the programs that serve almost 150 million Americans.

Stop Project 2025. Save our freedoms. Vote for Harris-Walz and Democrats, state and federal, up and down ballot.

Project 2025, pp. 450 Goal#2, 463-469