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.
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…
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.
They just want to hurt the people they hate
If I can’t afford insurance then the god-damned…(Insert something ignorant hateful and untrue) Motherfuckers better not either.
Yeah, we’re all having the day Idiot America voted for.
Americans voted for morons that vowed to replace the ACA with nothing and that’s exactly what we’re getting.
Those meddling Democrats keep getting in the way! Every piece of legislation that is brought forth to replace the ACA is voted down by them!
— some maga asshole somewhere probably.
replace Obamacare is voted down by them!
It won’t be the ACA until they can’t see a doctor and then it’ll be “Why did those Democrats get rid of the ACA and take away my healthcare! But thank God the Republicans got rid of Obamacare at least”.
Excuse me, but I have it on good authority¹ that they’ll have a plan in two weeks. You can’t wait two weeks for them to come up with a plan? C’mon, two weeks!
¹ What do you mean Trump isn’t a good authority?
Say what you will about them, their story is consistent. They’re saying it’ll be ready in two weeks, just like they were last week, and by fuck that’s what they’ll say next week
Apparently having a concept of a plan is perfectly fine for Idiot America.
ahhh, “concept of a plan” slipped my mind. heh. Thank you for the reminder.
And people vote for that shit! D:
My partner’s healthcare coverage would cost like $2000 a month for her and myself if she bought in. That’s a huge chunk of her pay. I don’t know how people are doing this shit with kids and things because not only did the coverage get shittier over time, the premiums have gone through the fucking roof.
The only affordable way to do this IMO is for each person in the household to have a full-time insurance providing job because the insurance for the employee themselves is a fraction of the cost of even covering themselves plus a spouse. Completely ridiculous.
And all of these 8 million will never vote Republican again, right? RIGHT?
A few million that lost their healthcare were children.
So not many votes lost for the gop. Wonder if that was part of their calculation
They want to keep people busy and desperate enough to not even bother voting. They want people focused on surviving so they can continue to break this country down and profit from it.
That’s like 2% of the nation, and elections are split by less than 1% so I would say yep, for sure, FOR SURE that’s lights out for the GOP. I mean people always vote their interests, right Anakain?
Trump will blame Biden, and that will be the end of it in their minds.
How many of them will even hear of this number?
You know the answer: The Republicans who were impacted will line up and vote for the only party they feel¹ cares about them at all, even though they feel that neither party truly cares about them.
Fucking fascist propaganda for decades has done its dirty work well.
¹ emphasis on “feel”
On the plus side, ever since I was born I’ve been very slowly dying, the government has just helped me be ahead of schedule for a change.
