Trotz Lisa Murkowskis Deals werden Alaskaner unter Trumps Steuerrechnung leiden

But maybe not as badly as other Americans.

Come election time she can tout how she saved Alaskans a much worse fate by the concessions she got, and can cruise to a solid 8+ point win and keep on grifting

Be ashamed, Lisa.

>As many as 46,000 Alaska residents are at risk of losing their health insurance because of the bill’s harsh new work requirements and frequent eligibility checks for Medicaid. Another 27,000 Alaskans are at risk of losing food assistance because of harsh new work requirements in the SNAP program. The perks Murkowski added to the bill on both of these fronts delay these hits from taking effect by a year or two, but don’t stop them.

>When the Medicaid cuts take effect, it will put a huge strain on the state’s health care system, with hospitals and clinics potentially being forced to cut services, increase costs for privately insured patients, or simply close. Four rural hospitals in Alaska, which comprise 40% of the state’s rural hospitals with available data, serve high concentrations of Medicaid patients.

>Murkowski negotiated more money for the previously mentioned $50 billion rural hospital fund to help with this, but it’s not even close to offsetting the bill’s more than $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid. Rural areas are going to lose $155 billion in federal Medicaid dollars under the bill, per an analysis by KFF, an independent health policy research group. Alaska is estimated to get about $280 million from the rural hospital fund over five years.

>Another “super concerning” aspect of the bill for Alaska residents relates to the state not having any Level 1 Trauma Centers, said Liz Pancotti, the managing director of policy and advocacy at Groundwork Collaborative, a progressive economic policy think tank.

>When Alaskans need Level 1 trauma care, which is the highest level of trauma care for critically injured patients, they are transported via medical evacuation to hospitals in Washington state, Pancotti said. Murkowski may have gotten reassurances from Trump officials that hospitals in her state can access the $50 billion rural hospital fund to offset its Medicaid cuts, but those assurances won’t likely apply to hospitals in Washington state.

>“Who knows if that state, which has a Democrat governor and Democrat senators, is going to get any money out of the rural hospital stabilization fund,” she said. “Probably not. And also, they’re not rural. Their centers are on the coast or in the cities.”
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The state’s budget will also take a huge hit, as Alaska, like all other states, will now have to pay for its share of Medicaid. The bill headed to Trump’s desk would result in Murkowski’s state losing at least $2 billion in federal Medicaid funds over the next decade, per KFF.

>State legislators will be pressed to offset those losses by making cuts to state-funded priorities, like education, or by raising taxes. They may also start making decisions about what kinds of so-called “optional Medicaid services” to no longer fund, in order to cut costs. That could mean no longer covering dental care, for example, or home care.

That’s okay, Murkowski was a brilliant negotiator for Alaskans and got a higher deduction for whalers, something every Alaskan does apparently.

I hope she rots in hell right between Trump and Johnson.

People will always suffer under republicans.

I knew John McCain and Senator you are no John McCain

If there is a working class, disabled, or low wage retired population in Alaska, than yes, this bill hurts Alaska. If there is a need of health care, education, or safety, then yes, this bill hurts Alaska. The only way a state could be happy with this bill, is if ever person living in that state is a billionaire.

Wait, not everyone in Alaska is a whaler captain? Well shit, guess they are fucked.

When times get tough, when enemies are at the gates, when powerful forces let by unhinged libertine Wall Street billionaires move to harm the Great State of Alaska and its fine people, voters can count on Senator Murkowski to bravely do what the conservative leaders of Alaska always do in such dark times:

What she’s told.

How many times can you for vote her and then want sympathy that she does the same shit?

In 2022 in the first round it was 85% between the top 2 Republicans and then 10% for a Democrat. In the final round it was two Republicans. Do we actually think the other Republican was making a different deal? Sorry Alaska, this is clearly what most of you wanted so I’m glad there is no special carve out. Eat this like the rest of us.

They voted for her. They voted for Trump. Alaska is getting precisely what it asked for.

She’s such a failure. I feel bad for Alaskans.

But at least now she has a MAGA hat signed by the chaos gremlin himself.

We send representatives to defend the people, and all they do is cater to the rich and throw us under the bus. Then, they come back to the state with their heads down claiming they did their best with nothing to show for it. We need a new system before we have nothing else to lose.

Maybe Alaska should become Canada’s 11th province.

The look of a woman too old to hold office and who knows she fucked the country. We need term and age limits for all elected officials and judges.

This will not stop Lisa from crying into her piles of money that comes with ]a massive expense account and cadillac insurance paid for by her constituents who will die needlessly. ‚I’m just working for the citizens of my State‘, no, you got yours so everyone else is out of luck.

Her bank account will not suffer

Fuck you Lisa