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But we didn't want to believe Lauren Boebert when she said, “We’re here to tell the government, we don’t want your benefits, we don’t want your welfare.” Well, we are here to tell Representative Boebert that she doesn’t speak for the nearly 1 million Coloradans of retirement age who worked hard to retire confidently. Maybe Coloradans should have seen this coming. The harm that the Default on America plan Boebert voted for would have caused is clear: 1 million Colorado seniors and people with disabilities would endure longer wait times when seeking assistance for Social Security and Medicare 641,000 Coloradans would have been put at risk of losing their Medicaid coverage and 111,300 Colorado veterans could have lost access to outpatient visits, leaving them unable to get appointments for care like mental health services and substance disorder treatment. Sticking to her guns on this issue will harm Americans. They have their place in politics, but not when the stakes are this high. The Grand Junction Sentinel called out Boebert’s actions for what they were, lamenting that “Boebert never misses an opportunity for gamesmanship and political posturing. The last, and most outrageous, example is Boebert’s effort this spring to push the United States towards the first ever default on the national debt, and use the threat of economic crisis as a bargaining chip to force harmful cuts to Medicare and other critical programs.

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In reality, Coloradans are already seeing lower out-of-pocket costs on dozens of drugs.īoebert’s position was aligned with the biggest drug companies who are now fighting tooth and nail to eliminate this new power for Medicare to negotiate lower drug prices so they are free to raise prices and pass on the cost to Colorado seniors. Boebert falsely claimed this legislation would raise costs. She also voted against lowering the cost of prescription drugs under Medicare through the Inflation Reduction Act. She also tried to silence her critics by threatening to sue an organization that launched an advocacy campaign to hold her accountable.īoebert’s harmful record on Medicare doesn’t stop there. She tried to hide her support for this proposal by stripping any mention of it from her website. To make matters worse, Boebert is dishonest about her record. The plan also increases the age of eligibility for Medicare, which would put healthcare coverage out of reach for millions of seniors. It creates more bureaucracy by turning Medicare into a means-tested voucher program, which would make it harder for seniors to access their benefits. The plan Boebert supports to gut Medicare is a disaster. It may have boosted her political celebrity with the far-right and generated headlines but did nothing to make headway on the critical need to lower healthcare costs for Coloradans in her district.Īs an organization that advocates for older Coloradans, we are calling on Boebert to listen to her constituents in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District – the Colorado district with the highest number of seniors in the state. Last year, Boebert supported the Republican Study Committee’s budget to gut Medicare. Lauren Boebert of Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District that includes Pueblo. To answer that question, we can look to the example set by Rep. Its journey includes reforms made under Democratic and Republican presidents, President Bush, President Obama – and President Biden just last year – to continue to strengthen coverage and lower costs.Īs a result, Medicare is a resounding, bipartisan success with an estimated 13% of Puebloans enrolled into Medicare today. It lowered costs, improved the quality of care, and increased life expectancy.

It cut the number of uninsured older Americans to near zero.

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In the 50 plus years that followed, Medicare revolutionized healthcare for America’s seniors. Johnson – to develop a program to solve this problem. It took the United States 30 years – from President Harry Truman to Lyndon B. Nearly half of older Americans lacked healthcare coverage when they needed it the most. Prior to the introduction of Medicare, the United States had a senior healthcare crisis. Today marks the 58th anniversary of the creation of Medicare.

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