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    GOP to offer budget blueprint with Medicare, food stamp cuts

    GOP to offer budget blueprint with Medicare, food stamp cuts

    GOP, now in charge of Congress, to offer budget blueprint; defense hawks look to save military

    By Andrew Taylor, Associated Press 1 hour ago


    FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2015, file photo, Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., center, flanked by Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2015. Republicans now in charge in Congress offer their budget blueprint the week of March 16 with the pledge to balance the nation’s budget within a decade and rein in major programs such as food stamps and Medicare. More pressing for many Republicans, however, is easing automatic budget cuts set to slam the military. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)



    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republicans now in charge of Congress offer their budget blueprint this week with a pledge to balance the nation's budget within a decade and rein in major programs such as food stamps and Medicare.

    More pressing for many Republicans, however, is easing automatic budget cuts set to slam the military. Not only that, a GOP divide is pitting defense hawks against budget hawks is threatening the party's ability to advance the measure.


    The chairmen of the House and Senate Budget panels plan to release their budget plans this week — the House on Tuesday and the Senate on Wednesday. The nonbinding measure called a budget resolution sets broad parameters on taxes and spending; it requires follow-up legislation later this year to implement its balanced-budget goals, and Republicans are unlikely to take on that task as long as President Barack Obama occupies the Oval Office.


    House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Ga., and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Mike Enzi, R-Wyo., plan to produce blueprints that would balance the budget within 10 years — without raising taxes.


    Instead, they will propose major spending cuts to programs such as Medicare, health care subsidies, food stamps and the Medicaid program for the poor and elderly to produce a budget that's balanced.

    Such cuts, if actually implemented later, would likely slash spending by $5 trillion or so over the coming decade from budgets that are presently on track to spend almost $50 trillion over that timeframe.


    To the dismay of defense hawks, however, they can't really use Congress' arcane budget process to repeal automatic Pentagon cuts that will strip $54 billion from core Pentagon programs based on limits set under a hard-fought 2011 budget deal. Nor can they match Obama's proposal to add $38 billion to the Pentagon's budget next year without exposing the entire budget to a parliamentary challenge by Democrats.


    That has deficit and defense hawks like Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., fuming.


    "If we're going to have a lower (defense) number than the president of the United States is proposing, we have no credibility on saying that we are committed to defending this nation — not when every service chief, every witness before our committee says it will devastate ... our ability to defend the nation," McCain said. "You can't do that and claim that you care about national defense."


    In the House, 70 Republicans have signed a letter by Rep. Mike Turner, R-Ohio, pledging their "unwavering support" for Obama's $561 billion defense request instead of the $523 billion amount mandated under the 2011 budget deal. That law requires automatic spending cuts for years because of the failure of Congress to produce follow-up deficit cuts. If they line up against Price's budget plan as a bloc, it'll be impossible to pass it.


    A bipartisan Senate group, including Armed Services Committee members Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., and Tim Kaine, D-Va., hopes to develop a package of alternative cuts and, perhaps, new revenues to replace the forced cuts to the Pentagon and nondefense programs. They're hoping to replicate a 2013 budget pact that partially eased the automatic cuts for the 2014-15 budget years.


    Defense hawks are likely to win some relief after Price adds about $13 billion in extra money above Obama's budget request for overseas military operations that would effectively provide relief to core Pentagon accounts like training and operations and maintenance.


    Meanwhile, Price says his upcoming budget will borrow heavily from those produced by former Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., most notably by envisioning a controversial Medicare plan that would, for people 56 or younger today, transform the system into a voucher-like program that subsidizes purchases of health insurance on the open market.


    House Republicans say this "premium support" model would ensure Medicare's viability and spur innovation. Opponents say the subsidies won't keep up with medical inflation and will force people to pay higher out-of-pocket costs and saddle them with health plans that are inferior to traditional Medicare.


    Enzi will go in a different direction on Medicare, said GOP aides, forgoing the premium support approach and instead adopting Obama's goal of paring $402 billion from the program over the coming decade — though not his lengthy roster of proposals to apply the cuts to health care providers.


    Price is also likely to replicate Ryan's approach to cutting Medicaid and food stamps by transforming them from federal programs into wholly state-run programs that receive lump sum funding from the government. That approach makes it easier to cut these programs without saying how many people would be dropped or how their benefits would be cut.


    In the four years that Republicans have controlled the House, they have yet to try to implement their controversial cuts, which was understandable given that Democrats controlled the rest of Washington. But now that Republicans have seized the Senate there's no expectation that they will follow the example of Republicans in 1995 and try to pass real legislation to balance the budget — with the certainty that Obama would veto any such measure as Bill Clinton thwarted the 1995 Newt Gingrich-led drive for a balanced budget.

    "It's going to require presidential leadership. We don't have it," said Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis. "We do not have a willing partner."

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    Meanwhile, Price says his upcoming budget will borrow heavily from those produced by former Budget Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., most notably by envisioning a controversial Medicare plan that would, for people 56 or younger today, transform the system into a voucher-like program that subsidizes purchases of health insurance on the open market.

    House Republicans say this "premium support" model would ensure Medicare's viability and spur innovation. Opponents say the subsidies won't keep up with medical inflation and will force people to pay higher out-of-pocket costs and saddle them with health plans that are inferior to traditional Medicare.


    Enzi will go in a different direction on Medicare, said GOP aides, forgoing the premium support approach and instead adopting Obama's goal of paring $402 billion from the program over the coming decade — though not his lengthy roster of proposals to apply the cuts to health care providers.


    Price is also likely to replicate Ryan's approach to cutting Medicaid and food stamps by transforming them from federal programs into wholly state-run programs that receive lump sum funding from the government. That approach makes it easier to cut these programs without saying how many people would be dropped or how their benefits would be cut.
    Medicare: Oh God, please leave it alone. Get the illegal aliens and frauds off and out of it, and leave it alone. Medicare is the only federal program that at least up and until Obama Care started robbing it, worked great! I know this from a family member who uses it along with their retirement insurance, and they receive great care through this system. Do not change it, do not touch it. Leave it alone.

    Medicaid: I don't know about handing over lump sums to the states. If Medicaid should be handled by the States, then just dump the federal program and make it a state-run, state-funded program. Maybe this will encourage states to take action to reduce their poverty levels, stop importing and sponsoring illegal aliens, drop pregnancy coverage under Medicaid except for the person who is already pregnant and then they or their spouse lose a job and can't find one, but limit the coverage to that pregnancy only. This concept of breeding while on Medicaid is too problematic, too costly, and too unfair to the taxpayers underwriting it, who choose not to have children because they can't afford it, while others camp on Medicaid and other welfare programs expecting those who control the size of the families to pay for it. This is wrong, wrong, wrong on all and every possible level. Same with SCHIP. NO PREGNANCY SERVICES unless already pregnant when you lose a job or your spouse loses a job and you qualify for Medicaid. Otherwise, leave Medicaid alone and work towards getting the almost 60 million people on Medicaid under the age of 65 back to work at jobs that will sustain them.

    In 2010, there were 49.9 million people on Medicaid in the US.

    http://kaiserhealthnews.org/morning-...alth-coverage/

    In 2015, there are 70 million people on Medicaid and SCHIP in the US.

    http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/...-across-the-us

    Food Stamps: Yeah, this program needs to be handed off to the states and "charities", along with the free school lunch program, which either needs to be totally dropped or schools need to include lunch for all students as part of the educational services provided. Today more than 60% of all students in our public school system are on the free school lunch program, which means the parents of the other 40% are paying to feed the children of the other 60%. THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! This is not free and equal education, this is another ignorant socialist tragedy.

    Sorry, folks, but this on top of subsidized Obama Care, tells you one thing, and one thing alone, our government is inept, our politicians are corrupt, and we don't have 1 red cent to hand out to any illegal alien, immigrant, or children thereof. This is a crisis of monumental proportions and we have to stop this dive to the bottom starting with the fundamentals.

    Judy's Five Steps to Fix the US Economy

    1. Stop illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration (at this point we need a 10 year Moratorium)
    2. Pass the FairTax
    3. Protect our Trade
    4. End the War on Drugs
    5. Drill Baby Drill, But Do It Right

    Do these 5 simple things, and there won't be 70 million people on Medicaid/CHIP, there will be less than 10 million and Social Security and Medicare will be robustly funded for all present and future generations, because there won't be 20 million unemployed/underemployed Americans, there will be less than 2 million, and wages, salaries and benefits will have reflated and grown with a higher productivity and efficiency level at which point, Americans will have our DREAM of a sustainable nation of independent free people.
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