The Republican tax cut scheme is a Trojan horse to throw cancer patients out of treatment
this bill will blow a $1.5 trillion hole in the deficit, it will also trigger an automatic $25 billion annual cut to Medicare, under a savage austerity scheme known as the "sequester.” And because of the unusual way Medicare covers chemotherapy drugs—which are very expensive—cancer patients are going to be uniquely burdened by these cuts.
It’s also not in any way hypothetical, because it happened once before, back in 2013. This is how the headlines read at the time:
Cancer clinics are turning away thousands of Medicare patients. Blame the sequester.
These cuts were never reversed, and they’ve had a devastating impact on cancer care.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/201...tail=emaildkbn
http://www.cancernetwork.com/practic...rming-oncology
Now, the Repugs are running CMS, HHS, etc, the health care will be cut back even more. aka, voluntary manslaughter, no accountability.