Rep. Cheri Bustos: Medicare Is Program that Works; Trump Is Taking It from the People Who Need It

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BUSTOS: "If I could quote my 85-year-old mother who calls me and leaves me voice messages and says, 'Don’t let them touch my Medicare,' I think my mom speaks for people in their 80s and their 70s and their mid-60s all over this country. Medicare is a program that works. It is handled cost-effectively, it has the lowest oversight of any health insurance program in the country. And it works. It is also Social Security and Medicare together are the greatest lifters out of poverty in the history of our nation. And basically what Donald Trump is doing, he is robbing the Peter Medicare part of it to pay the basically Pad Paul’s stock portfolio. You know, it is literally that’s what he’s doing, taking from people who need something and giving it to others who don’t need it as much."