“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.
The Red States will lose their healthcare and find a way to blame Joe Biden.
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.
they HAD to cut it don’t you know?
because BIDEN was such a bad economic manager they just didn’t have the money!
no the economy wasn’t doing well! the price of eggs!
bird flu epidemic due to lax regulations? NO it was BIDEN
global cost of living crisis that wasn’t isolated to the USA? pft if biden wasn’t horrible he’d have fixed it for us because the USA is better than everyone else
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.
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.
See how none of this makes sense anymore? The balance is ruined when cent I centimillionaires and billionaires exist. I’d even say nobody needs to be a millionaire in a sane world.
They aren’t MAGA Republicans. They are just Republicans. Whatever remnants of sanity those people may have left is not calling the shots.
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?
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.
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.
