„Die ländliche Gesundheitsversorgung wird aufhören zu existieren“, wenn Trump Medicaid abschneidet, warnt Kentucky Gov.
https://www.semafor.com/article/04/23/2025/rural-healthcare-will-cease-to-exist-if-trump-cuts-medicaid-kentucky-gov-andy-beshear-warns?utm_campaign=semaforreddit
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Medicaid cuts under consideration by Republicans “will cause the American people to nearly revolt,” Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear said Wednesday.
Children and older adults will be hit the hardest, as well as those with private insurance, he predicted to Stephanie Ruhle, MSNBC host and a senior business analyst with NBC News, at Semafor’s World Economy Summit in Washington, DC — and “rural healthcare will cease to exist.”
Cutting Medicaid will turn voters against Trump, including his own supporters, Beshear said.
“I tell you what will move people more than anything else, and that’s the potential Medicaid cuts that could come out of Congress,” the Democrat said.
“Medicaid covers the people we love the most in this world, our parents and our kids,” he said. “Fifty percent of all Kentucky kids are covered by Medicaid. Seventy percent of all of our long-term costs are covered by Medicaid. And rural health care will cease to exist if they do major cuts.”
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Isn’t this what rural voters voted for?
These red states are going to be destroyed, and they’ll deserve it.
lol. What did these people expect?
That would be a good thing. Rural voters are never going to realize how badly Trump and the republican party are screwing them over until there are real consequences like losing their access to healthcare.
They call this ‚finding out‘.
Thoughts and prayers.
This is what America voted for
Beshear needs to run in 2028. I have a vision.
Good things no conservatives rely on rural healthcare facilities. Oh wait…
May we suggest some gold laced Trump logo bootstraps. Perfect for pulling your family up after a hurricane or other natural disaster. You did vote for this.
Given the choice of which type of healthcare to receive, „rural“ is already pretty close to the bottom
MAGAs dropping left and right. First they shun vacines, then they vote for the people that want to take away their vital services and cheap labor. Going to be seeing tent clinics and tent housing flying MAGA flags so they know where to go to spend their last days.
Oh well.
when Trump cuts Medicaid, not if
Won’t change a single vote. Rural Red Republicans see Donnie as the most important Christian leader in the world.
It’s about a belief system. They would gladly hand their last dollar to Donnie.
Oh well….
„How were we supposed to know?!“ said the crowd that enjoys listening to 3 hour misinformation podcasts instead of actually being informed.
I am pretty sure based on what happened in the bond market 2 weeks ago that if the Republicans try to cut taxes it will be a Theresa May type meltdown.
Somehow this will be Biden’s fault.
Oh wait.. I can see it now… „Why didn’t the Dems stop Trump? Clearly this is the Dem’s fault! Yay Trump!“
I hope they do and it sounds fucked up because not everyone voted for him, and there are a lot of children and blue voters who will be hurt, but the state needs to find out exactly what they voted for and have been voting for over the last couple decades. The GOP has always wanted to get rid of “entitlements” and “welfare,” so just do it.
It’s really the only way these people are going to start questioning what they’ve believed their whole lives. Same with ending programs that keep heat and AC on, and same with tariffs, and ending support for students that are the A in DEI(A) and all the rest.
It’s sad that racism wasn’t enough of a turn-off, or that making fun of disabled people wasn’t enough, or the hate and violence against women, or the fraud, or the insurrection, or any other number of vile things Trump and his party has going for it.
From ‚Obamacare‘ to ‚Alabamacare‘ who saw that coming? /s
No more socialism for the old and weak, they’ve been telling me how bad it is for years, time to work harder and longer boomers. I’m only half serious don’t worry.
They can thank their boy Bitch McConnell for his very large contributions to the mess find themselves in.
100% accurate.
It’s unaffordable to operate in rural communities and offer anywhere near the same standard of care with expensive equipment like MRI/CAT/PET scans, etc.
That doesn’t even include timely blood and/or fluid tests.
It’s what they voted for, so oh well.
This is the 2nd red state governor warning how bad the Trump administration is today. Are we seeing cracks already?
Good. Reap what you sow. Move if you can. I did. It fucking sucked. But it was necessary.
Hey, this is what those rural voters wanted! Dying due to lack of healthcare is the best way to own the libs!
oh no, its almost like elections have consequences and people who vote against their own self interest get what they deserve ? I swear every post on r/politics lately should be cross posed on r/noshitsherlock
I thought y’all voted for that?
Take your medicine Kentucky. You got exactly what you voted for.
Rural America will cease to exist with most of Trump’s policies.
Stop saving these people from their poor decisions in the voting booth or not voting. They need to learn how bad they’ve been and the time is now.
Good. Im at the point i dont care what happens in these rural republican shitholes. Let them suffer their own consequences.
this is literally what „cutting entitlements“ means, and it’s what rural voters wanted. time for bootstraps or whatever.
These comments are something else. How is it not common knowledge that Medicaid is the backbone of our hospital system? Medicaid cuts will hurt everyone, the middle class on private insurance likely more than the poor. Hospitals still have to see uninsured patients, that cost is simply absorbed by everyone else and baked into the cost of doing business.
Cool, sounds like they’re getting exactly what they voted for 👍
Let’s see here… *checks notes*
Kentucky votes for… Trump. And McConnell.
So that means… carry the one, subtract the voter suppression, plus three for Supreme Court pick fuckery, aaaaand that equals:
Get fucked, Kentucky.
Blue states have enough to support ourselves and we will continue to do so, all while barely seeing any changes to our quality of life. It’s the red welfare states that will really feel the brunt of all of this.