What does the election mean for the future of health care?

Contributor: Buddy Robinson

The issue of health care remains a top priority of voters, because it continues to get less and less affordable. At the same time, restrictions on what's covered and which doctors you can see gets worse and worse. The COVID pandemic has made the problems in health care access and cost all the more alarming.

This is a huge topic for the November election. If Trump gets re-elected, he and the Republicans in Congress won't just fail to reverse the trend in greater cost and restrictions. They'll accelerate it.

Medicare's future can be good or bad, depending on the results of the elections

Contributor: Buddy Robinson

Medicare is not in the news much these days, but don't be fooled. It's still an intense, big-money issue hidden in the background. Its future, for good or bad, is at stake. There are strong opposing ideas of what to do with it. The Republican party's plan would greatly increase health care costs for seniors and disabled, while enriching insurance companies.

The assertion that the money owed to Social Security will never be repaid is not true -- this is one more cynical lie.

Contributor: Buddy Robinson

Right-wingers claim that all the borrowing that Congress has taken from the Social Security Trust Funds is just a pile of worthless IOUs, which will never be redeemed. However, this is yet one more false scare tactic designed to fool people into thinking that Social Security will run out of money, when that's not the case.