Republicans hunting for ways to pay for Trump’s tax cuts for richest 1%, call for cutting Medicaid. Cutting Medicaid spending, wd result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u... - ThreadSky

miafarrow.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Republicans hunting for ways to pay for Trump’s tax cuts for richest 1%, call for cutting Medicaid.

Cutting Medicaid spending, wd result in millions of Americans across the country losing health coverage
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/us/politics/medicaid-cuts-republican-budget.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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libraryanna.bsky.social•5 days ago

It will cost more because the effect will be sicker and more disabled people suffering from treatable conditions. They will get on Social Security disability programs (ssdi and ssi). They will go on Medicare and care will be much more expensive.

They cannot see beyond the end of their noses.

thecharisse.bsky.social•4 days ago

Those programs will also be cut.

libraryanna.bsky.social•4 days ago

Exactly. They want to bankrupt them as an excuse to privatize for their profit.

catherinezoltan.bsky.social•5 days ago

They aren't Republicans. They are Kremlinites.

truth-is-beauty.bsky.social•5 days ago

We desperately need universal health care.

vatruthteller.bsky.social•5 days ago

The problem is the supposed representatives we have don't pay for their own healthcare, so they have no idea what we deal with.

Make all of DC pay for their own damn Healthcare instead of us paying for theirs.

victor22822.bsky.social•5 days ago

Time to expose peter thiel

https://www.newsweek.com/peter-thiel-pre-nazi-germany-us-comparison-resurfaces-1934760

trifid73.bsky.social•5 days ago

They don't care about plebeians, they want to eat all the cake like Marie Antoinette

trifid73.bsky.social•5 days ago

erniepf.bsky.social•5 days ago

And there he is, in all his fatass glory.

pamela-bookwriter.bsky.social•5 days ago

Oh shit, my eyes are bleeding! I'll never be able to unsee that!

negaduck67.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lots of poor tRump voters in red states... will be fun to watch that play out...

pino-fotus.bsky.social•5 days ago

GOP Budget Bill

foglightmj.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cutting Medicaid negatively affects the economy, as well, putting greater reliance back on ERs and causing many more to be home from or out of work caring for family members.

jarda.bsky.social•5 days ago

There should be a way to cut Medicaid only for voters of the orange blob.

westexanon.bsky.social•5 days ago

If you will remember, a number of state governors refused to join in Medicaid in the Obama years with the ACA.

hamingja6233.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's been their purpose this whole time!

whosagrumpybear.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's really frustrating to watch the "debate" on C-Span. Just blatant lying from Republicans.

albert1049.bsky.social•5 days ago

They also want to cut Medicare, Social security, EBT food assistance and section 8 housing!

colinbags.bsky.social•5 days ago

The cornerstone of any nation that refers to itself as civilised is providing healthcare for those you cannot afford to pay for private care. This is not even debatable.

ianxz.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cutting services to pay for wealthy tax cuts.

The line about "national debt" is clearly a lie, when the tax cuts ADD debt.

$1.5T cuts
$4.5T tax breaks

You lose services. You pay debt.
Rich keep all the benefits.

MAGA. Wake the F up!!

ike55.bsky.social•5 days ago

The GOP is robbing us of the money we paid over a lifetime of work, and are gutting the government, all to give tax cuts to 756 billionaires in this country.

756. That's their constituency.

There were more people in my high school graduating class than this.

It's your money. Not theirs.

ike55.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_the_number_of_billionaires#:~:text=As%20of%202024%2C%20there%20are,%2C%20Vermont%2C%20and%20West%20Virginia.

bullwinkles.bsky.social•5 days ago

It will close every rural hospital and nursing home.

lord-melbury.bsky.social•5 days ago

But they're poor so it's a price the rich are willing to pay

rhondasgray.bsky.social•5 days ago

My 87 year old mom, who survives on $1,235/mo, will lose her $185 part B medical and her secondary insurance. Wait until all the old, poor white people in red states who voted for trump realize what that means to them.

patricia1skagit.bsky.social•5 days ago

Voting matters and NOT voting matters too

jdinjc.bsky.social•5 days ago

as he golfs and eat greasy food every weekend on the taxpayers dime. The last time I saw the total it was around $10 million. A lot of people could get aid with $10 million but instead he just chooses to blow it on himself. Talk about not leading by example.

hilawhee.bsky.social•5 days ago

My mom would die. So many people would die. It’s not an exaggeration either. She is on many medications which keep her alive. If she loses what little healthcare she is she will die. In days, maybe. Weeks, maybe months. This is a thought that has crushed me for weeks. I can’t breathe.

caligreg.bsky.social•5 days ago

GOP: Your Family Should Suffer

Medicaid helps in everyone’s family.
A major assist in a messed up industry.
GOP tax cuts will take healthcare away.
Billionaires over family? No fucking way!

toddadam.bsky.social•5 days ago

Cruelty is their only policy.

almunro.bsky.social•5 days ago

I do not understand how people who claim to be Christian voted for this. There are going to be a lot of disappointed people at the Pearly Gates.

safetyinspector.bsky.social•5 days ago

Eat the rich

hpsc24.bsky.social•5 days ago

katkent.bsky.social•5 days ago

Greed. What extreme greed.

misstrish.bsky.social•5 days ago

Plus lots of elderly and/or disabled folks being turned out of nursing homes.

Be honest. If you don't want Grandma moving in with you, make the GOP give up on cutting Medicaid.

I'm just sayin.

dwaynejulin.bsky.social•5 days ago

The poorest and most in need. The Disabled!

tiger0018.bsky.social•5 days ago

PEOPLE WILL SUFFER AND DIE. CONTACT YOUR REPRESENTATIVES. TELL THEM TO REJECT THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
THEN TELL THEM TO FIRE MUSK.

patsand.bsky.social•5 days ago

How's about you "gift" us an article? Not all of us can afford this.

pluuskaippi.bsky.social•5 days ago

Just a rubber stamp. Like the Duma in Russia.

davidrohl.bsky.social•4 days ago

Cutting the English written language to 'wd' is entirely unnecessary and very Trumpian.

pamela-bookwriter.bsky.social•5 days ago

Texas, Pennsylvania, Florida, Ohio, and Illinois -- in terms of Medicaid usage -- are numbers 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. Wait till the Republicans need to get elected again!

captiancold.bsky.social•4 days ago

Silly serfs, health is for people.

vegasgello.bsky.social•5 days ago

aeirould.bsky.social•5 days ago

It would also lead to massive job losses in healthcare, hospital closures in economically disadvantaged areas, and a lower life expectancy.

Oh, no worries: that is their plan. Once a worker has passed their utility, they become a drain. Why throw good money after bad?

Fuck em all.

edhirsch.bsky.social•5 days ago

71 percent of Donald Trump voters oppose Medicaid cuts
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5163193-trump-voters-oppose-medicaid-cuts-poll/

edhirsch.bsky.social•5 days ago

Federal government spends significantly more money and provides greater benefits in Republican states than these states pay in taxes

MAGA STATE MOOCHERS
https://youtu.be/Wc13pAB18XU

edhirsch.bsky.social•5 days ago

Mike Johnson's "prayer request": A GOP budget that slashes Medicaid to pay for Trump's tax cuts
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/25/mike-johnsons-prayer-request-a-budget-that-slashes-medicaid-to-pay-for-cuts/

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