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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    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.

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    I for one hope that a lot of poor Trump voters die off as a result of their actions.

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      1 month ago

      Because most people aren’t paying attention, and politicians know it. And that’s a huge problem.

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    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.

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    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.