If you or someone you love is on Medicaid, and you voted from Donald Trump, this Fuck Around and Find Out (FAFO) moment is just for you! Republicans just voted to give huge tax breaks to millionaires while gutting programs like Medicaid (because there’s no way to make up the money otherwise, so do this simple math). That’s right, if you or someone you love is on Medicaid, there is a very real possibility that it’s going to be cut in some way.
Along with the misleadingly-optimistic headline from this article, “It also requires the House Energy and Commerce Committee to find $880 billion in cuts to federal programs, and Republicans say some of that will come from reducing spending on Medicaid. And it raises the debt limit by $4 trillion.” NBC News framing this in any way as a ‘win’ is part of why we are here, so keep it up, Free-For-Now Press! (Oh, I also see that the White House will be determine which new outlets get to attend the press conferences now, NOT the White House Press Association, so keep it up! Go fascism!)
At this point, I’m in the ‘Let Them’ contingent, where we let the people in power crush all of you on Medicaid. It’s not that I don’t care, I’m simply going to offer what is usually offered at times of duress from those very same people in charge: thoughts and prayers. As always, blessed be!
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