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    1. BaconLibrary on

      > White House adviser David Sacks admitted over the weekend that the GOP’s tax bill will include significant cuts to Medicaid, despite claims from his boss and other MAGA loyalists that it will not.

      > Sacks, who is President Donald Trump‘s AI and crypto czar, said plainly on the All-In podcast: “This bill cuts $880 billion from Medicaid over a decade.”

    2. I hate to be disagreeable, but from my vantage, the cuts to Medicaid have never been the quiet part. The cuts have been the oh my God so fricking deafening part that you’d have to be a special kind of shitbag to successfully tune them out.

    3. Finish your thought David, this bill doesn’t cut Medicaid. It transfers Medicaid to the rich so they can do what they please with the $

    4. a_little_hazel_nuts on

      This bill takes the USA workforces taxes thatthey pay to fund Medicaid and using it to pay for a tax break for the rich. It’s gross. Republicans are always jibber jabbing about getting rid of medicaid/Medicare or social security to give rich people money that every working person is paying a tax to fund.

    5. henningknows on

      I can’t believe this is where we are as a country, republicans can do something in plain sight, then simply tell their supporters they didn’t do it, and republican voters will believe it. I don’t know how you go about fixing that. Trump will be gone soon, but that problem remains.

    6. Far_Nefariousness888 on

      and this is only the beginning, Social Security and Medicare are next.

    7. APairOfMarthas on

      There is no quiet part with them anymore

      Someone explain to me why the fuck headlines have catchphrases instead of integrity

    8. Fallen_Jalter on

      ffs my mom needs to get onto it. I hope to whatever god is listening she can get on before this happens.

    9. So “only the undeserving” will be cut. The quiet part is, they think EVERYONE on Medicaid is “undeserving”

    10. The real quiet part is this will be devastating for everyone who isn’t like, really rich, even people who never expect to use the program. Medicaid subsidizes hospital care for the poor and this benefits everyone. I want to shout this from the rooftops.

      Roughly 40% of all births in the US are paid for by Medicaid. If Medicaid suddenly stopped paying for those, these mothers are still going to go to the hospital to deliver their baby. The difference will be the government isn’t paying their bill and realistically neither will they because they probably can’t afford it. The bill will go to collections. If hospitals have too many uninsured people who can’t pay their bills and aren’t worth suing, they’ll have to close because they’ll be losing money. Now no one has a hospital, including people with private health insurance.

      Now some might be thinking, why don’t we just allow hospitals to refuse to treat the poor and uninsured in their ERs? First of all, shame on you. Second, this is a TERRIBLE idea. Picture this: you’re out and about and suddenly become incapacitated. Maybe you’re having a medical episode. Maybe you’re hit by a car. You’re taken to the hospital but uhoh your wallet didn’t make it there with you. With no id and no way to tell if you’re insured, the hospital has to decide whether they think you can afford treatment. What if they decide you can’t and let you die? Now let’s go back to the first scenario. Imagine this happens but your local hospital shut down a few years ago because it couldn’t afford to stay open due to too many uninsured people utilizing the er. Now an ambulance has to drive you a hour away to a bigger city. Both of these situations are bad. Let’s not cut Medicaid please?

    11. Millionaires and Billionaires deciding who deserves public funds. Ironic considering how many subsidies go to them!

    12. Fit-Significance-436 on

      The denials, distortion and disinformation by trumps administration on the Medicaid cuts should make the follow up on this interesting, guessing we won’t see Sacks in front of cameras for a bit.

    13. General-Cover-4981 on

      3..2..1…”I didn’t vote for this!” “Yes. Yes you did. “

    14. AltaBirdNerd on

      They’ll just claim the only thing they’re cutting is waste and fraud. This isn’t some smoking gun.

    15. Living-Literature88 on

      Many rural hospitals will close as they depend on Medicaid patients. So even if you have insurance, you’ll have to travel to get hospital care. It’s not just denying healthcare to low income people. All of us in rural areas will suffer. On top of that, doctors will have to leave rural areas too. Many doctors depend on Medicare patients as well.

    16. jertheman43 on

      The Senate will absolutely vote this through. They will make noises about being against it, and then every one of them will vote for it.

    17. They can say whatever they want. And his followers will still praise Jesus for his ass. They don’t give a fuck! They’ll blame the earth for their problems, as long as they suck the dirt that was given to them.

    18. Ok, but it’s **MY** fucking money taken *specifically* for Medicare & Social Security, **NOT** to give those greedy, villainous fucks who already have too much, MORE.

      It’s literal insanity to keep believing that math will ever math, when it’s NEVER mathed before.

    19. There is no way for red and blue states to coexist. There is no overlap in beliefs anymore. Not saying anything should happen, tech overlords, but the incompatibility is unfixable. I’m so goddamn tired of subsidizing states that are holding us all back.

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