The Plot To Take Away Your Medicare, Unveiled!

<p>Produced by KSQD90.7FM &nbsp;</p> <p><em>(</em><em><strong>Action Requested: </strong></em><em>Flood the White House switchboard to urge President Biden to stop DCE/REACH today! Call 202-456-1111 from 11:00am-3:00pm EST. A script may be found at www.nationalsinglepayer.com </em>and click on the call-in script link.<em>)</em></p> <p><strong>“Be Bold America!” Sunday, May 22, 2022 </strong>at <strong>5:00pm (PDT)</strong></p> <p><em><strong>When Willie Sutton was asked why he robbed banks, he responded, “because that’s where the money is.”</strong></em></p> <p>During the final days of the Trump Administration, officials at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) <strong>launched a dangerous and insidious pilot program </strong>known as <strong>Medicare Direct Contracting</strong>. <em>(This program was recently rebranded as REACH by the Biden Administration.)</em></p> <p><strong>Left unchecked</strong>, Direct Contracting and REACH would allow <strong>profit-hungry middlemen to “manage” the care of up to 30 million traditional Medicare beneficiaries. </strong>These <em>middlemen</em>, some of whom have received a huge influx of money from private equity, have every incentive to frustrate patients and <strong>deny medically necessary care</strong>!</p> <p>Unless we stop REACH, this program could spell <strong>the end of Medicare as a public, nonprofit, social insurance program.</strong></p> <p><em>“Medicare was designed as a lifeline for America’s seniors and those with disabilities, NOT a playground for Wall Street investors.”</em>– Dr. Susan Rogers, President, PNHP</p> <p><strong>Interview Guest:</strong></p> <p><strong>Dr. Ana Malinow </strong>spent decades working as a <strong>pediatrician with immigrant, refugee and underserved children </strong>in Ohio, Texas, Pennsylvania and California. She is past president of Physicians for a National Health Program, co-founder of Health Care for All Texas, and lead organizer for the National Single Payer. She has authored opinion pieces on how national s