Trump Super-PAC Sent Out Bogus Medicare Cancellation Notice to Scare Voters About Kamala Harris
Source: Mother Jones
3 hours ago
MAGA, Inc. has disseminated a mailer to seniors that claims the veep is shutting down the program.
David Corn
In Arizona, older people recently received a mailer declaring Medicare had been cancelled. It had a big red stamp that proclaimed, Medicare Cancellation Notice. Also emblazoned on its front was this: Warning: Rates are going up & plans are being cancelled. Details enclosed. Its return address was the Department of Medicare Cancellation, Kamala Harris Administration.
That return address should have been a tip-off that this was not an official notificationalong with a scrawled add-on in cursive: I hope you can afford to lose your insurance! Kamala Harris XOXO.
Its hard to know whether any recipient saw this and received a shock, fearing their Medicare was being cut off. But the group that sent out this official-looking piece of campaign literature, Make America Great Again, Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC, was spreading false and misleading information about Medicare and about Harris.
The mailer sent out by Make America Great Again, Inc., a pro-Trump super PAC. It is designed as a Medicare cancellation notice, but its a misleading piece of campaign literature.
The backside of the notice claimed that Harris is destroying Medicare. .....................
Read more: https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/trump-super-pac-maga-inc-sent-out-bogus-medicare-cancellation-notices-arizona/
Of all the low down, dirty nasty things to do!!
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PedroXimenez
(431 posts)they have to do this shit to get more.
ArkansasDemocrat1
(2,942 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(36,236 posts)18 U.S. Code § 1035 - False statements relating to health care matters
(a) Whoever, in any matter involving a health care benefit program, knowingly and willfully(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or device a material fact; or
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements or representations, or makes or uses any materially false writing or document knowing the same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry, in connection with the delivery of or payment for health care benefits, items, or services, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) As used in this section, the term health care benefit program has the meaning given such term in section 24(b) of this title.
Quanto Magnus
(998 posts)people need to start being prosecuted for this BS
Skittles
(157,562 posts)WTF
mdbl
(5,317 posts)slightlv
(4,047 posts)this is illegal. Yes, my husband got ripped off by a scam and cleaned out our bank account. we're only now beginning to get back on our feet... so I DO have one hell of a dog in this fight... as does ANY senior or anyone of any age who cares for a senior. What this PAC did is the same thing, for all intents and purposes, that the scam artists did to my DH. It's despicable. It's evil. And for some seniors, it could lead to a heart attack or stroke. Will we be able to fry these repug scammers for murder in that case? I doubt it. They'll just merrily go on their own terrorizing way. EVIL!
NotHardly
(1,113 posts)myohmy2
(3,566 posts)...that fraud or something...?
...there isn't an American alive that doesn't know and understand that the Dems are the Party of Social Security and Medicare...
...anything that would harm Medicare or Social Security would have to be Republican...
...good try but no cigar...