New fact sheets detail how people in every US state are suffering from the Republican Party's assault on Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.

The unprecedented healthcare cuts that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party enacted last summer have impacted people in all 50 US states, stripping insurance coverage from around 8 million Americans total and wreaking havoc on hospitals and other providers nationwide.

The advocacy group Protect Our Care on Tuesday released state-by-state fact sheets detailing how many people have lost Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act coverage due to Republican policy decisions, including the party’s roughly $900 billion in cuts to Medicaid and decision to let enhanced ACA subsidies expire, sending premiums skyrocketing.

  • blackberry28@sh.itjust.works
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    14 hours ago

    And still Trump has a 33% approval rate. I mean who tf are those people? Are they all so fckn rich that they don’t care about increased medical costs? Or gas prices? Or inflation? Or stagnating economy? Those aren’t some abstract politics, those are things u feel in ur everyday live…

    • Seaguy05@lemmy.world
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      9 hours ago

      From what I’ve heard from individuals who believe in Trump is.

      • They don’t want to pay others medical bills
      • There’s too many people depending on the government
      • What about the uks hospital wait lines
      • That’s socialism and that’s bad, look at Cuba
      • People should get a job with insurance
      • Big pharma already makes too much money

      Some of these people I consider smart people, others I wouldn’t say that about. These all seem pretty shallow arguments against Medicare for all our even the aca. The other trope is people don’t know that the aca is Obamacare and them buying on the market is the ACA in action. Besides the pharma argument, I haven’t heard a convincing argument against the wealthiest country in the world providing healthcare to it’s citizens, imo.