Letter to the editor: Scare tactics on Medicare

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : What this is referring to is administration efforts to hold the health insurance industry accountable, recovering improper payments made to insurance companies and returning the money to the Medicare trust funds, thereby protecting the fiscal sustainability of Medicare and allowing the program to better serve seniors and people with disabilities.
34% : Better ways to reduce debt would be to rescind tax cuts for rich people and force them to pay their fair share of taxes, and to get rid of the enormous waste in big government programs like the Defense Department.
30% : The writer of the letter "Let's cut Congress' expenses instead" (Feb. 23, TribLIVE) states President Biden used "his usual scare tactics: 'Do we cut Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, veterans' programs?' "

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