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Republican Study Committee Budget Seeks to Save Medicare

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The Republican Study Committee budget proposal, titled “Protecting America’s Economic Security,” contains several conservative proposals. Breitbart News’s Ashley Oliver exclusively reported how the bill would repeal the Biden administration’s pistol brace rule, among other Second Amendment proposals.

RSC Chairman Kevin Hern (R-OK) and budget task force chairman Ben Cline (R-VA) led the creation of the budget proposal.

The RSC budget hopes to boost the solvency of Medicare, and the RSC budget details that on the entitlement program’s current trajectory it is headed for drastic cuts.

The RSC cites the latest Medicare Trustees estimate, which finds that the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will be depleted in 2031, at which time payments to healthcare providers will be cut more than 11 percent. This payment reduction would likely lead to rationed care for current and future Medicare beneficiaries.

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