Forbes March 12, 2024
When former President Trump suggested possible cuts to Medicare during an interview on CNBC yesterday it shouldn’t have come as a surprise. While Trump has vowed repeatedly during the 2016, 2020 and 2024 election cycles not to cut Medicare, his actual record belies the rhetoric. Nevertheless, most cutbacks Trump has proposed or talked about relate to diminished payments to healthcare providers and hospitals and not Medicare recipient benefits.
Yesterday, in an interview on CNBC, Trump spoke of there being “a lot you can do in terms of entitlements, in terms of cutting.” Trump didn’t give specifics.
While on the campaign trail in New Hampshire on Monday, President Biden was quick to seize upon the former President’s comments, saying “Donald Trump...
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