“Millions” of people will lose health insurance if Republicans push these plans through.
Republicans are quietly pushing to slash Medicaid to fund Donald Trump’s tax cuts and immigration spending.
The effort has been subtle and behind the scenes, and disguised as a way to eliminate Medicaid fraud and protect the program’s most vulnerable recipients.
But several Republicans, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, are desperately trying to revive a yearslong fight to eliminate the expanded Medicaid eligibility requirements included in Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, which gives millions of low-income adults health coverage.
When people and their loved ones are dying cause they have no access to healthcare, these same people are gonna start shooting those they think are responsible.
Nothing more dangerous than someone with nothing to lose.
Fuck around you maggots and find out.
Which is terrifying because the people who are actually responsible for this mess isn’t the same as the ones the shooters think.
I have a fear what will happen instead is that the GOP will just send the military to deal with the civilians, as Project2025 envisioned.
Hosea 8:7 or some shit.
Not true. We’ve been losing people because of expensive healthcare for as long as I can remember, and so far only one insurance CEO has been capped.
I quote a famous Iowan: Let them die!
https://newrepublic.com/post/194217/maga-republicans-gut-medicaid-help-donald-trump So is this “woke” in Canada PP?
The Red States will lose their healthcare and find a way to blame Joe Biden.
They won’t blame Biden. They’ll blame Obama because he’s black
Someone made photos of Donald Trump being a hero on 9/11.
I happen to have been working in lower Manhattan at that time. During the recovery efforts, there were some restaurants and hotels that gave free food and/or lodging to the volunteers working at Ground Zero. No Trump property gave anyone so much as a bowl of soup.
What could be worth more? American lives, or more money that billionaires could never spend in a lifetime?
The choice is clear.
If people hoarded cats, or junk cars, or Hummel figurines, or beanie babies, etc., the way these people hoard money, theyd be diagnosed with mental illness, and get psychiatric help.
But if a zillionaire has the unquenchable compulsion to destroy EVERYTHING to get just a tiny bit more, he’s worshipped as a “job creator.”
Its time to start framing this behavior as a mental illness, which should no longer be indulged or tolerated. It needs to be treated, and just like a cat hoarder’s cats are removed by the authorities, confiscating much of their financial hoard is the first step.
I would thoroughly be in favor of a max money or max wealth concept. Congratulations. You win! There is no more money to collect.
You are now free to do something else.
Every year, take the richest person and redistribute 50% of their wealth.
Working hard or smart doesn’t make you that kind of money.
Tax wealth, not work.
I’m stealing this.
Your point is very valid.
But even just one billion is more than a whole family could spend in multiple lifetimes!
The difference between a million and a billion dollars is basically a billion dollars, while at the same time a million dollars is more wealth than a VERY large majority of Americans will ever see.
And of course this would be a massive harm to their own voters, because Medicaid expansion has been the only thing keeping most rural community hospitals afloat for a long time. If they cut it, then it’s likely that many small towns are going to lose their only medical providers within a hour’s drive or more.
Thus continuing the work COVID started and further reducing the voting bloc the right relies on to get elected… right?
Alas, I think they found a new one in nihilistic young men who want to burn it all down.
As ever, working to build the post-apocalyptic wasteland that would finally justify their insistence that they need 500 guns and a fleet of milsurp Humvees to traverse the miles of crumbled roadways between their compounds and the last operating Fortress Hospital in the Dakotan Oil Wastes.
