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Dems need to make these Medicaid Cuts "politically Radioactive" -- all so the Millionaires get Paid [1]
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Date: 2025-02-14
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I hope that the GOP base finds out about this … the buffet-items Mike Johnson has just put on the “Pay-For” Menu of their actual base: Corporations and Millionaires.
GOP got an 'alarming glimpse at the future' as it eyes massive cut: report
rawstory, via www.msn.com — Feb 13, 2025
House Republicans have made slashing hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, the federal-state partnership of public health insurance for lower-income people, a core part of their plan to pay for new tax cuts for the rich — but making such cuts could be much harder than they anticipate, health reporter Joanne Kenen wrote for Politico on Thursday. [...] a number of states that backed Trump voted by popular referendum to expand the program, over the objections of their GOP legislators. In these states, Medicaid is often a main driver preventing rural hospitals from closing.
[...] "Trump last month remarked he’d 'love and cherish' the program. In recent days, Trump and his aides have said privately that they are worried steep Medicaid cuts would be politically radioactive," Politico reported. The bottom line, Kenen wrote, is that while "with full GOP control of Washington, the question at the start of the year seemed to be not whether Medicaid would be cut but by how much," this week, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) "suggested the deepest cuts might not be in the offing" — a clear sign Republicans are aware how fine a line they'll have to walk.
Trump drew the line at Social Security cuts in Republicans' proposed budget, but Medicaid is on the chopping block
www.businessinsider.com — Feb 12, 2025
The House Budget Committee's budget draft included a goal of about $2 trillion in spending cuts and allowed for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts. The blueprint draft called for at least $880 billion in spending cuts from the House Energy and Commerce Committee over the next decade. This would likely mean large Medicaid cuts , potentially leading many Americans to lose their benefits. A list from Republicans on the House Budget Committee published by Politico outlining reconciliation options reveals over $2 trillion in potential Medicaid cuts, though some could overlap.
[...] Figures such as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have argued that Medicaid is ineffective, and some question whether it has improved people's health. Critics of the program have also said people relying on Medicaid could get insurance from other sources , such as their workplace. However, Medicaid expansions have been shown to improve care access, reduce mortality rates, and spark economic growth.
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Why is it, with the GOP they always put the whims of the Millionaires, far and above, the everyday needs of the working-class folks?
Could it be, because they know, they can get away with it … AGAIN. And then just blame it all on the Dems?
And the GOP base will fall for it — every FoxNews-look-over-there time.
It’s your future … How are those Egg prices working out for you?
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Don’t expect their “rigging the system,” to end anytime soon.
Afterall, their biggest client has to be paid — back.
State Department halts plan to buy $400M worth of armored vehicles from Musk’s Tesla — AP
Nice kick-back — <i>if you can get it.</i>
Huh, looks like push-back CAN get results … good to know.
Now if only, we could get a bit more push-back here ...
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politizane — circa 2013
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