Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real

[Concerned American]

It is, genius.

Yet you dispute that ANY state medicaid program could be a mere $103M. You're trolling again, genius.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

The stupidity of voting for Trump; the stupidity of voting against one’s own interests.

It’s in my best interest to not pay for your healthcare. It’s also in my best interest to send illegals home and not pay for theirs either.

My best interests are being served.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[jacksonlamb]

Medicaid has been around since WWII?

That's news to me.

Go back, read, and understand.

 

[jacksonlamb]

It’s in my best interest to not pay for your healthcare. It’s also in my best interest to send illegals home and not pay for theirs either.

My best interests are being served.

Get a good job.

 

[Oddball]

Go back, read, and understand.

I read and comprehend just fine...But my nincompoop-to-English translator is on the fritz.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Where do you come up with that. Trump is in power and expanding power.

Concerned American: You talk out both sides of your mouth.

jacksonlamb: What I wrote is so.

 

[Concerned American]

Get a good job.

Good advice---follow it.

 

[jacksonlamb]

I read and comprehend just fine...But my nincompoop-to-English translator is on the fritz.

Naw, you just want to play stupid, which is silly.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Get a good job.

I have one that’s how I can afford my own insurance and would like it to get back to what I was paying before Obiecare fucked it up.

 

[jacksonlamb]

Was Obama and the ACA around in WWII? Try again. BTW, as I posted about the cuts that you're whining about--when NE expanded medicaid to include the ACA -- it exploded the program from $53M to $103M which dragged all other gov't social programs down. Educate yourself and quit gaslighting, it doesn't work anymore.

Are you truly that stupid? And look up "gas lighting."

 

[jacksonlamb]

I have one that’s how I can afford my own insurance and would like it to get back to what I was paying before Obiecare fucked it up.

Rick Scott and the other insurance bandits fucked it up. Then you privatized your risk by going to catastrophic insurance so you could socialize the cost if you got really ill. You were playing the game, got caught, and have been whining since 2010.

 

[initforme]

No such thing as a good job.

 

[Concerned American]

Are you truly that stupid? And look up "gas lighting."

Take it up with the sourced link. Laughable that you run your mouth but you provide no substantiation. Try again, moron.

 

[Missouri_Mike]

OMAHA, NEBRASKA HAS BEEN BUSTLING with activity these past few days thanks to the annual Berkshire Hathaway weekend, when tens of thousands of investors from around the world gather to hobnob with Warren Buffett while they figure out how to maximize their portfolios.

But inside one office, a woman named Amy Behnke has been preoccupied with something very different and much more urgent. She has been furiously working the phones with state officials, trying to figure out how to keep some of Nebraska’s poorest residents from losing their health insurance.

Behnke is CEO of the Nebraska Health Center Association, which represents clinics that provide care to the state’s underserved population. Since 2020, she tells me, the percentage of total patients showing up to member clinics with no insurance at all—the ones who represent the biggest drain on clinic finances—has dropped from half to one-third.

That’s a sign of progress, and it’s no mystery what’s behind it. In October 2020, Nebraska officially became part of the Affordable Care Act’s Medicaid expansion. By taking advantage of federal funding that the state’s GOP officials had long refused—but that voters eventually approved via ballot measure—Nebraska was able to open up its program to any citizen or qualifying legal resident with income below 138 percent of the federal poverty line.

Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real

Nebraska will be the first test of how many people lose insurance—and who they are.

www.thebulwark.com

It seems trump devotees who avail themselves of Medicaid coverage are going to be in for another rude, trumpian awakening. Added to the list of awakenings like the cost of living, the price of gas, and a war with Iran with no apparent end in sight. All things they were promised not to have to deal with if they just gave a self-interested, convicted criminal another chance to run the country. What could go wrong? Turns out, a lot.

It’s amazing how bad Obiecare fucked everyone over. The insured are now paying twice as much. The 30 million without insurance still don’t have any and the poor now have to rely on the government for it.

It’s been a lose, lose, lose for the entire nation.

 

[initforme]

Good jobs are those that one neednt show up for.

 

[Concerned American]

No such thing as a good job.

Sure, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" eh, comrade init?

 

[BluesLegend]

Good. It’s pretty obvious most of Medicaid is going to scammers.

Hey, Democrats wanted to bring in 10's of millions of illegals and give them hundreds of billions in 'free' shit. Boot the illegals out and you have plenty of money for those mooching deadbeat Medicaid programs.

 

[SaxonJackson]

 

[Missouri_Mike]

Rick Scott and the other insurance bandits fucked it up. Then you privatized your risk by going to catastrophic insurance so you could socialize the cost if you got really ill. You were playing the game, got caught, and have been whining since 2010.

WTF are you talking about?

I had and have great insurance. It’s never changed except the cost has doubled and the deductibles went from 2k to 5k a year. Obiecare caused that. Anyone now needing insurance could have got it at half the price it costs now. You didn’t help anyone you just made mine cost more and put others getting their own even further out of reach.