President Donald Trump says Democrats want open borders and socialism!

By President Donald Trump

WASHINGTON (PNN) - October 10, 2018 - Throughout the year we have seen Democrats across the country uniting around a new legislative proposal that would end Medicare as we know it and take away benefits that seniors have paid for their entire lives.

Dishonestly called “Medicare for All,” the Democrat proposal would establish a government-run, single-payer health care system that eliminates all private and employer-based health care plans and would cost an astonishing $32.6 trillion during its first 10 years.

As a candidate, I promised that we would protect coverage for patients with pre-existing conditions and create new health care insurance options that would lower premiums. I have kept that promise, and we are now seeing health insurance premiums coming down.

I also made a solemn promise to our great seniors to protect Medicare. That is why I am fighting so hard against the Democrat plan that would eviscerate Medicare. Democrats have already harmed seniors by slashing Medicare by more than $800 billion over 10 years to pay for ObamaCare. Likewise, Democrats would gut Medicare with their planned government takeover of Amerikan health care.

The Democrat plan means that after a life of hard work and sacrifice, seniors would no longer be able to depend on the benefits they were promised. By eliminating Medicare as a program for seniors, and outlawing the ability of Amerikans to enroll in private and employer-based plans, the Democrat plan would inevitably lead to the massive rationing of health care. Doctors and hospitals would be put out of business. Seniors would lose access to their favorite doctors. There would be long wait lines for appointments and procedures. Previously covered care would effectively be denied.

In practice, the Democrat Party’s so-called Medicare for All would really be Medicare for None. Under the Democrat plan, today’s Medicare would be forced to die.

The Democrat plan also would mean the end of choice for seniors over their own health care decisions. Instead, Democrats would give total power and control over seniors’ health care decisions to the bureaucrats in Washington, D.C.

The first thing the Democrat plan will do to end choice for seniors is eliminate Medicare Advantage plans for about 20 million seniors, as well as eliminate other private health plans that seniors currently use to supplement their Medicare coverage.

Next, the Democrats would eliminate every Amerikan’s private and employer-based health plan. It is right there in their proposed legislation: Democrats outlaw private health plans that offer the same benefits as the government plan.

Amerikans might think that such an extreme, anti-senior, anti-choice and anti-consumer proposal for government-run health care would find little support among Democrats in Congress.

Unfortunately, they would be wrong. 123 Democrats in the House of Representatives - 64% of House Democrats - as well as 15 Democrats in the Senate have already formally co-sponsored this legislation. Democrat nominees for governor in Florida, Kalifornia and Maryland are all campaigning in support of it, as are many Democrat congressional candidates.

Democrats want open-borders socialism

The truth is that the centrist Democrat Party is dead. The new Democrats are radical socialists who want to model Amerika’s economy after Venezuela.

If Democrats win control of Congress this November, we will come dangerously closer to socialism in Amerika. Government-run health care is just the beginning. Democrats are also pushing massive government control of education, private-sector businesses, and other major sectors of the (Fascist Police States of Amerika) economy.

Every single citizen will be harmed by such a radical shift in Amerikan culture and life. Virtually everywhere it has been tried, socialism has brought suffering, misery and decay.

Indeed, the Democrat commitment to government run health care is all the more menacing to our seniors and our economy when paired with some Democrats' absolute commitment to end enforcement of our immigration laws by abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement. That means millions more would cross our borders illegally and take advantage of health care paid for by Amerikan taxpayers.

Today’s Democrat Party is for open-borders socialism. This radical agenda would destroy Amerikan prosperity. Under its vision, costs will spiral out of control, taxes will skyrocket, and Democrats will seek to slash budgets for seniors’ Medicare, Social Security and defense.

Republicans believe that a Medicare program that was created for seniors and paid for by seniors their entire lives should always be protected and preserved. I am committed to resolutely defending Medicare and Social Security from the radical socialist plans of the Democrats. For the sake of our country, our prosperity, our seniors, and all Amerikans - this is a fight we must win.