Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids on Medicaid
www.independent.co.uk
‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ is projected to cut nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid spending over the next decade. Parents with sick kids and doctors tell Rhian Lubin the cuts are ‘final nail in the coffin’
  • Dragomus@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 day ago

    But that’s a build in design … less kids and other weak folk to give decades long medical coverage to saves a lot on the medical costs the small government has!

    On top of that, now with severe restrictions on research and marketing of new vaccines, there will be even less medicines in the system.
    What competition there was will be wiped away when there are only a small handful of “competing” drugs left per ailment, priced the same ofcourse but just differ in side-effects.

    Winning through reducing costs, losing by healing less people.

    And so, 4 years down the line, we hear them boast how much costs they reduced in medicaid and still kept it running.

  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    2 days ago

    1. operating on babies is a crazy thing, to me. I hope it’s ok

    2. how come these articles never say who the family voted for? are you hiding something?

  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 days ago

    Hopefully, after 4 years of everything getting severely worse, they learn their lesson and stop voting for Republicans…

    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      Actually the death panel was fired so your application for health care is just sitting on a empty desk somewhere. But we’re working hard to implement Trump’s idea for a health care plan. Hang tight, bootstraps are the best health care anyways. - love MAGA.

  • ShittDickk@lemmy.world
    37·
    3 days ago

    Heh that’s the final nail? Wait til rural hospitals and clinics start closing due to lack of funding. No you wont get a MRI for $20, the hospital will just close because its no longer as profitable as it could be.

  • Basic Glitch@sh.itjust.works
    9·
    2 days ago

    I wonder if it’s really hit most poor Republican voters yet why the GOP is just ruling like there is no tomorrow? Why they seem to be on the ultimate corruption bender and living like there’s no consequences for their actions.

    Like it feels like they’re the kid that still holds out some hope even though their parents left to go buy cigarettes almost 9 months ago. I’m sorry, but they’re not coming back for you.

    If you could ask them why they abandoned you, they would just give you some vague excuse about bootstraps and say they’re teaching you to be self reliant.

    • NABDad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      It’s not what I voted for, but it’s what they voted for whether they knew it or not.

            • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
              1·
              2 days ago

              Not the CEO, the PATIENT. Regardless, posting a link to anyones home address is removable and bannable. If it’s malicious, as we saw with some of the Luigi type stuff, that can be a permaban.

              • raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world
                1·
                2 days ago

                That sounds like a really weird approach by OP.

                With regards to Luigi etc - well - that’s a different topic. At some point, peaceful protest doesn’t work anymore - the core question of debate is when that point is reached.

                • jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
                  0·
                  2 days ago

                  Yeah, in this case OP was like “well, she shouldn’t have voted Republican” and linked to her voter registration with home address.

                  No. Just… NO.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      3 days ago

      the first mistake is being a Republican

      You’d never know Louisiana had a Democrat in the governor’s mansion as recently as 2024. The whole state is condemned to this horror because liberals pooched a single election cycle and then lethargically handed dictoral power to a madman.

          • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
            6·
            3 days ago

            No, because of the Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco’s handling of the storm.

            Similarly, the mayor of New Orleans at the time, Ray Nagin, was a Democrat.

            The locals definitely blamed them a lot more than Bush, which is fair, the hurricanes had been happening for decades and nobody had even so much as drawn up a plan to use school buses to evacuate those without vehicles. The plan was always “better hope you own a car, bitch!” which really isn’t a plan at all.

    • Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      41·
      3 days ago

      You’re assuming that registration = vote, when that’s not necessarily the case. In areas where Republicans are the majority (like Louisiana) it’s not uncommon for left leaning people to register and vote in the Republican primaries and then vote Democratic in the election, because the only real time they have a voice in the political process is trying to get the least shitty Republican on the ballot.

      Do I know that’s what happened here? No. And neither do you. It’s a victim blaming distraction from the fact that this administration is allowing disabled children to suffer and die.

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        2 days ago

        In areas where Republicans are the majority (like Louisiana) it’s not uncommon for left leaning people to register and vote in the Republican primaries and then vote Democratic in the election

        Yeah, this is me. I live in a district that will 100% without a doubt always go red. It’s gerrymandered to hell and back, and a democrat has absolutely zero chance of winning here… So I register R, and vote for the least crazy republican in the primaries. Because that’s the only time my vote will actually have any impact on the result. Whoever wins the republican primary will win the district, (and any democrat would be better than the crazies coming out of the Republican Party), so I try to influence the former as much as possible. Then I vote blue in the general so my stats are counted as a blue vote.