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Trump’s $2 billion midterms health-care bribe will go to just 20.8 million Americans, less than one-third of Medicare recipients

Medicare Advantage enrollees and millions of low-income recipients are excluded from the one-time payments, which will cost about $2 billion.
Less than one-third of all Medicare recipients are eligible for the payments, which are expected to be sent out this week. Not eligible are roughly 35 million Medicare Advantage enrollees, millions of other people with disabilities and low-income Medicare recipients. The election-year promise that the Republican president made over the weekend comes as the Nov. 3 midterms…
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