Destroying the health care system to pay for tax cuts for the 1%

I'm starting to get annoyed at those videos and news reports where people say "This isn't what I voted for." Well, what did you think what you were voting for, because none of this surprises me.

The House’s very aggressive budget plan for next fiscal year (starting in October) is the latest turmoil gripping Washington. The Republican budget plan calls for trillions of dollars in regressive tax cuts. And the budget numbers tell us the most likely place to get money to partially pay for the tax cuts will be severe cut backs in Medicaid—the source of health insurance for over 25% of Americans and close to 60% of children, and a major source of basic health care from nursing homes to rural hospitals...
Trump and the Republicans are dead set on massive tax cuts for the rich. They will do so mainly by renewing the cuts for individuals and households passed in Trump’s first term that expire at the end of 2025. (The 2017 corporate tax rate cut from 35% to 21% is permanent.)
According to the Congressional Budget Office, just renewing the expiring Trump tax provisions would cost around $4 trillion over the next 10 years.

What form those cuts will take may vary, but it's already passed the House on a party-line vote.
But you don't get Medicaid, so why should you care? Besides a lack of empathy for poor people, it will effect you one way or another.

Get ready to wait — longer and longer — because when hospitals can’t afford to stay fully staffed, your care takes a back seat. The effect of budget cuts will hit hospitals in two devastating ways: Costs will soar as uninsured patients flood emergency rooms, and revenues will plummet as fewer Medicaid patients access non-emergency services. When hospitals lose money, everyone pays the price.

Medicaid is a lifeline woven deep into the fabric of American health care. Medicaid covers one in four Americans, including nearly 50 percent of children. Nearly 65 percent of those receiving long-term care services for chronic conditions — our parents, grandparents and vulnerable neighbors — are covered under Medicaid.

When millions suddenly cannot afford insurance anymore, they won’t disappear — they will show up in emergency rooms, because they have nowhere else to go. Preventive care will plummet, leading to more advanced illnesses and more costly treatments.

It's not like the GOP has been shy concerning their objective to gut the social safety net.
Of course the GOP isn't selling this as cuts. It's all about "waste".

If House Republicans manage to adopt a budget proposal as they plan on Tuesday night, it’ll be because they convinced members of their caucus concerned about Medicaid cuts that those will come from rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, not reducing benefits.

It’s hard to see how the numbers add up.

The Government Accountability Office, Congress’ investigative arm, estimates about $31 billion last year in improper payments in Medicaid, the federal-state health insurance program for low-income people...
Republicans plan to use a fast-track process for the legislation that will allow them to pass it without any Democratic support if Republican lawmakers stick together.

Of course they could simply NOT cut taxes for the super wealthy, but that's not going to happen.

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has to do with credibility.

The source for these "reports" is Forbes, ABC news, and Politico.

Based on the reports I've been seeing, I believe there will be more than enough funds to cover Medicare for all once we reduce the stranglehold of the for-profit industry on our medical care. I consider these sources to be cheerleaders for the for-profit industry. That's who pays them.

MsIndy and I are "recovering" from very expensive dental treatments. We have never had dental insurance.

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@exindy
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the advantage add-ons cover almost nothing
was advised to buy a third insurance policy
just for teeth
what a scam

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question everything

@QMS Those are two different programs.

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@gjohnsit

was responding to exindy

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from the Bush Jr. administration, people like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, etc.

And would have rewarded the mainstream media for lying about just about everything.

Given the U.S. two-party system, the 2025 election was, and is, really a “Sophie’s choice” situation.

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