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FEATURING MIA IVES-RUBLEE – The Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 offers a clear vision for what a future conservative presidential administration is likely to do in office. On healthcare, which we’ll be examining today, Project 2025 takes aim at Medicare, the largest nationalized health program in the U.S. Linking the costs of government-funded health care to the federal government deficit, its authors claim that “our deficit problem is a Medicare and Medicaid problem.” They denounce the programs that millions rely on as “runaway entitlements that stifle medical innovation, encourage fraud, and impede cost containment.”

The authors of Project 2025 hope to chip away at the program by making the privatized program, Medicare Advantage, the default when seniors enroll. They also take aim at Medicaid—on which millions of low-income children and adults rely—with work requirements and means testing, hoping to turn Medicaid coverage into a voucher program. Project 2025 also aims to increase Medicare Part D prescription drug prices. Currently only specific groups of people are eligible for government-funded health care: seniors, veterans, and low-income people.

What would a progressive vision for healthcare look like? As part of YES! Media’s Progress 2025 initiative, we hope to answer that question in a conversation with Mia Ives-Rublee.

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