Last month, Republicans passed a reconciliation bill that is expected to kick millions of Americans off of Medicaid and other forms of health insurance. The legislation includes over $800 million in cuts to Medicaid spending over the next 10 years, the largest in the program’s history. Now, as Republicans gear up for next year’s midterm elections, vulnerable lawmakers who supported the so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” are attempting to recast themselves as protectors of the health care program they sent to the wood chipper.
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Insert Eric Andre meme - " Why would the other politicians do this?"
Their voters will eat it up and vote for them again
Because most people aren’t paying attention, and politicians know it. And that’s a huge problem.
So for yeears to come all these rural red voters won’t be able to go to their closest hospital because it closed and they will bitch and moan about it endlessly - but I still bet they won’t blame Trump.
%100 this will be blamed on biden and obama
My rural Idaho in-laws to a T.
It’s all the gays’ fault, obviously.
No, it’s trans people’s fault. They used up all the healthcare, or something.
I for one hope that a lot of poor Trump voters die off as a result of their actions.
People will die because of this.
Murderers. Mass murderers.
And yet a big chunk of the country are still republicans, and another big chunk think doing anything to stop this is simply too gauche (pun intended) to consider. We can’t fight back or be at all disruptive because then they’ll do the bad things they’re planning to do anyway!
I hope they all fucking drop dead.
Eventually they will, but the timing on that is critical to the health of others, not surprisingly.
Not likely as they get better medical coverage than us.
The relatively new rural hospital that’s saved the lives of people in my family and offered others the ability to spend their final day(s) / hour(s) of life close to home is on the chopping block. I just found out this morning that it may be closing, specifically cited as being due to medicaid cuts.
As far as I am aware, the next closest hospitals are going to add another 20 - 30 minutes or so to an ambulance ride for people in that area.
I think about the “widow maker” heart attack or the aftermath of the car accident that shouldn’t have been survivable, and I wonder if those situations would have turned out differently if it took 20 extra minutes before starting surgery / treatment.
I also think about the ambulance rides that insurance increasingly considers “out of network” and thus people are on the hook for 100% of the cost. Those often charge by the mile. One way or another, things are going to be even more expensive for those folks.
I’m honestly surprised that this bill past without mass ads rejecting it by the hospital companies. A lot of companies who own and operate rural hospitals all over the nation got a lot of their income directly from Medicaid.
All for the soundbytes.
Hypocrites, you say? Yes. Every last one of them.
People who have been profiting off the for-profit healthcare system have really fucked themselves.
The purpose of Medicade is to externalize those who healthcare providers and insurance companies cannot squeeze a profit from: The poor, children without parents who have resources to spare, and the under-paid. Without Medicade the financial burden of all these people is going to come crashing down on the rest of the system - making it even worse than inoperable … unprofitable.
They should be gutted
Weird…it’s like a pattern or something with the GOP. They also came out against the infrastructure bill that passed under Biden and then turned around and touted the federal funds to their constituents.
You see by taking the underage childrens virginity they are protecting it by keeping the bad people from doing it later.
