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REPUBLICANS WANT TO TAKE MEDICARE AWAY

Lucas, House Speaker Paul Ryan just introduced a plan to slash America’s earned health care benefits. Their latest attack on Medicare would raise the eligibility age from 65 to 67, leaving millions stuck paying for expensive private insurance at a time when countless Americans have little or no retirement savings.

Ryan is making it clear yet again that gutting Medicare is a key component of his Republican Party’s extreme right-wing agenda. We need a loud and immediate outcry to stop this plan in its tracks and make sure both parties know cutting Medicare is a political loser.

Sign if you agree with CREDO and Daily Kos: Don’t cut Medicare, expand it.

According to recent estimates, America’s future retirees together have $7.7 trillion less in savings than they will need to retire with dignity. They will become the first generation in recent history to retire to a lower standard of living than their parents.

In the face of such a retirement crisis, we should be expanding Medicare, not cutting it, by immediately lowering the eligibility age to at least 62.

Despite sensational claims, many working Americans are not living longer. If you are a member of the one percent, you can expect to live more than a decade longer than the poorest Americans. In fact, the lives of Americans experiencing lifelong poverty are getting shorter. Republicans are citing misleading statistics in order to justify pushing Americans into the hands private capital and profit-making health care enterprises.

America’s retirees paid into Medicare their whole lives and earned the benefits Republicans want to take away. We need to make it clear right from the start that such a plan is absolutely unacceptable.

Tell Congress: Don’t cut Medicare, expand it.

Keep fighting,
Monique Teal, Daily Kos
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