Moonglow
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We can't, which contributes to our slow demise.
Trump’s Big Medicaid Cuts Are About to Get Very Real
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jacksonlamb
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You were on catastrophic, privatizing the saving and socializing the cost, you communist.
jacksonlamb
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That's the fault of the insurance barons, Mike.
I am on 100% VA medical and earned it the hard way.
Missouri_Mike
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You’re retarded.
jacksonlamb
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Mine is. I invented it and have done nicely.
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But at least he's spending money on war. His battleship which a Republican think tank has said is like going back to the 1940s, and a waste of $20 billion at least....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.
Yes, just crazy ideas that lead to the poor getting poorer and the rich getting richer.
Greenbeard
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Obamacare did not cause you to age 16 years since 2010.
jacksonlamb
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(1) GOP fucked it up in Congress every chance it could.
(2) The insurance industry is lobbying them like crazy to do so.
(3) About 30 million working adults are without medical insurance today compared to about 50 million in 2010.
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The only qualification any of Trump's appointees need to offer is to agree to lie, to glorify him & agree to make things worse for anyone who isn't one of his cronies or those who help to stuff his pockets.
Which is every single one of them, including Warsh.
Missouri_Mike
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WTF? Are you retarded? What does that even mean?
jacksonlamb
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Yah, don't you know, Mike?
Missouri_Mike
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No it was 30 million then and still 30 million now after butt ******* everyone else. Obiecare is a joke. It did nothing but cost the majority more for what they already had at half the price. It’s the perfect example of left wing policies. It doesn’t help anyone but just costs more.
Greenbeard
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It means younger people pay lower premiums than older people. That’s normal, it’s appropriate.
Missouri_Mike
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That didn’t happen. The young people just got priced out with the premiums doubling in cost.
Greenbeard
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Your premiums doubled because you got old.
FDR was racist towards Japanese Americans. Racists towards Italian Americans and racist towards German Americans. Somehow a Depression lasted for a decade. Very suspicious. And then the citizens were ready for a war and we got it. Very very suspicious.
The ACA pays for those who never have paid as a companion to Medicaid and parts of Medicare.
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