Up to 15 to 20 million poor are losing Medicare insurance

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 8:07am

This started on April 1. Congress decided to stop the subsidies created for the
pandemic in their $1 trillion budget in December. This will also effect the CHIP
program.

Hey, thanks congress for thinking of the little people.

15 million people were casually thrown off medicaid this week

https://en.as.com/latest_news/why-could-millions-of-americans-lose-medic...

Chief amongst those changes was a provision that will allow states to remove millions of people off Medicaid from April 2023. The Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that roughly 20% of current recipients could lose Medicaid coverage.
This equates to more than 15 million Americans.

For millions of Americans who get medical care under Medicaid, the end of March marks a grim deadline. Starting April 1, states will start removing people from the government health insurance program for the poor, paring rolls that swelled during the pandemic.

Jeeze Louise. Race to the bottom.

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 8:11am

So this is why the pandemic "ended"

Even though it hasn't.

Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 8:42am

somewhat off topic

the musician of the day today on WUMB (a Boston station)
is Muddy Waters. He was born 110 years ago
today. Had some Robert Johnson influence before moving
to Chicago in the 40's.
Happy Birthday Muddy.

Submitted by usefewersyllables on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 8:47am

We have to support

the Ukrainian little people, you know. It says so right there in the Declaration of Whateverthatwas.

The Great Dying has definitely begun.

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 9:02am

Priorities are screwed up

@usefewersyllables

Congress willfully destroys the domestic safety net
while funding some eastern european country instead.
Heads should roll.

Submitted by ggersh on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 9:39am

Need a hand, become ukrainian

@usefewersyllables https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2023/04/debt-rattle-april-4-2023/

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Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 11:32am

Population of the US

@usefewersyllables
is predicted to fall from 332,620,000 to 99,553,100 by 2025. PPP to drop from $59,500 to $16,740.
Per Deagel.com forecast.
What happens to 233,000,000 Americans?
Germany loses almost 50 million, or over 50%.
United Kingdom loses over 60%.
Israel down 50%.
Ireland down 75%
What's going to happen to all these people?
The great dying is coming.

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Neither Iran nor Venezuela are threatening America.
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Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 10:25am

Aren’t you glad that the adults are back in charge?

Jason Boxman
April 4, 2023 at 9:21 am

Indeed, under Biden and liberal Democrats we’re witnessing the largest increase in child poverty in history, an own goal without a political cost it seems. During the worst Pandemic in 100 years, which they’re ignoring. I guess this is what adulting is, to liberal Democrats.

Biden, Pelosi and shitlibs are still bragging about reducing child poverty, but they refused to reinstate the child tax credits and now this crap. Biden told Schumer not to fight for it if republicans tried to end it because he planned on signing it.

It’s not only bad to be America’s friend, but it’s also bad to have democrats in charge. Never forget that it was Clinton who destroyed our welfare system.

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Submitted by Snode on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 3:49pm

Yeah, you have to wonder

@snoopydawg how it would go if democrats were in charge....oh, wait!

Submitted by mimi on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 12:43pm

Have Americans lost their minds? And why and what for?

Fuck those, who helped to allow that to happen.

Submitted by exindy on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 1:11pm

Oh ye of little faith, Brandon is grabbing the reins!

Why just yesterday I read this piece on the ABC-snooze site. I won't bore you with a link, I'm sure everyone is talking about it.

Biden to kick off administration-wide 'Investing in America' tour

Biden will visit the Fridley headquarters of Cummins, which manufactures truck engines and alternative clean energy technology. During his remarks, the president will discuss how his "Investing in America" agenda is unleashing a manufacturing and innovation boom, building a clean energy economy and creating well paid jobs in communities like Fridley and elsewhere across the nation, the White House official said.

Since Biden took office in January 2021, companies have committed to invest more than $2 billion across Minnesota. The president's visit on Monday will coincide with Cummins' announcement that the company is investing $1 billion to expand its manufacturing in Indiana, North Carolina and New York, according to the White House official.

I was still in Indy when the entourage descended upon the Carrier plant and promised that it would be revitalized. It was led by the trumper. It was so exciting.

Carrier had been purchased by United Technologies, their assets and tech advancements sucked dry. I had one of their best furnaces installed a couple years before, a dual fuel heat pump system. Quite an investment but well worth it.

I'm sure you remember United Technologies, their MBA brains sold the Mostek DRAM patents to a french company cause the development would have taken more than the next couple quarters and cut into the bonuses and stock buybacks. That wonderful decision ranked right up there with Eastman's abandonment of digital photography. Those MBAs couldn't see beyond film. (the one over their eyes).

Let's go Brandon.

Submitted by exindy on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 1:33pm

Of course this incentive program

@exindy

will rank right up there with the Foxconn deal. To refresh my memory I did the google machine and it managed to find an article from cnn a few years ago. Once again, I continue my refusal to give the msm a click link:

Foxconn’s giant factory in Wisconsin sounded too good to be true. Turns out it was

New York
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When first announced in 2017, Foxconn’s plan to build a massive electronics factory in Wisconsin was hailed by then-President Donald Trump as a sign of the rebirth of American manufacturing.

But nearly four years later, the complex that promised to create a Silicon Valley in the industrial Midwest is essentially a white elephant, a collection of mostly empty buildings without any high-tech products to build.

And this week it became official: The pledged investment of up to $10 billion to create as many as 13,000 jobs is not coming.

The Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. and the Taiwanese electronics maker signed a revised incentive deal outlining a $672 million investment from Foxconn that will create fewer than 1,500 jobs. The incentives package now totals only $80 million, less than 3% of the nearly $3 billion in tax breaks and other perks the state originally promised.

Gonna be a new day in murka!

Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 1:39pm

Wasn't it just yesterday

that Biden stopped the push to regulate Medicare Advantage, which robs taxpayers, the Medicare trust fund, and keeps people locked in to a plan that can prevent necessary medical procedures?
Is the government declaring poor people undeserving of the necessities which makes staying alive possible?
You decide.

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Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 3:21pm

short answer is yes

@on the cusp

the government only represents big bucks
little people are meaningless in their grand
scheme. Even the MSM doesn't bother to
comment on the raping of americans

Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 3:47pm

QMS,

@QMS it just seems like normal life, or normal way of life, is on the way out the door.
The rich have such a disdain for the non-rich.
An enormous die-off of the 99% is the fucking goal!
Does anyone believe there will be sufficient food and water in the climate friendly smart cities?
I almost see a parallel between gas chambers to cleanse and sanitize bodies, and smart cities to feel great about clean air.
Nothing makes it easier to put one's self in harm's way than to convince that person it is for the greater good.

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Submitted by Snode on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 3:59pm

Our normal life

@on the cusp is to get screwed, every day in every way. Julian Assange said "fight back!". How? Do we even think we deserve better? It seems we almost think we deserve what happens to us.

Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 4:12pm

I think being screwed to death

@Snode is kinda, sorta, a new trend.
I question a lot of people's rationality. How could they not see this or that coming?
But my own rationality is that there was never a way to prevent this new trend, was there? I shouldn't criticize people for falling into traps. The trap is set for all of us.

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 4:41pm

The Medicare bait and switch Advantage campaign

@on the cusp

....was a pretty dirty trick to play on the US population. But like most non-accountable neoliberal programs that privatize government infrastructure and obligations (public health care) in order to transform government spending into excess corporate profits for top-level investors — the devastating consequences and human neglect won't impact most people until they are too old or sick to generate political blowback. It's government budget restraints made possible by sacrificing the vulnerable.

On a general note, I notice that all the way down this thread, folks take a shot at President Biden. That seems counterproductive to me. It's not as if there is salvation in making a different choice in the voting booth. All choices — for as long as the current population has been alive — have led to exactly this same destination. The only ways out are to leave the country or live in complete denial and surrender to the gaslighting. Short of that, the only dignity comes through speaking the objective truth. Blaming the President merely obscures the truth about what we have really become. What we have consented to.

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Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 5:54pm

I didn't mean that to be particularly

@Pluto's Republic critical of Biden. I was pointing out that yesterday he announced bending us over by keeping profits going to Medicare Advantage, and today, announcing the further reduction of any health care to the poor today. Yesterday, it was the elderly targeted. Today, it is kids. The depopulation event is coming at us fast.
I do not believe a single person on this site believes Biden is any more that some goofy spokesperson. He does as he is told. Mention of him as if complaining is simply mentioning by name the spokesperson of the NGO(s) for whom he works. It is true the majority has consented to way too many policies.
On the other hand, I do not think it matters if we consent or not. Being resistant would have never achieved much, if anything, whatsoever. I have actually looked at several countries in Central America as ex-pat destinations. Never made it to Belize, Bolivia, or Venezuela,but checked out Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama, Columbia, Equador, and Peru. The government in Equador went neolib, super capitalist a few years ago, and would have been my first choice. Now, either Mexico or Panama would be my choice.

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Submitted by usefewersyllables on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 10:49pm

Grenada.

@on the cusp

Just second-world enough, and not a bad place to be if you can work on boats for the rich people. I can see going down there and setting up an electrical/electronics biz near Port Louis, which is a Camper and Nicholson marina with lots of megabuck toys in it. All you have to do to succeed is to be willing to work on Saturday, because the island folk are mostly 7th Day Adventists…

If I somehow live long enough, that’s where I’ll go. I’m also a good enough welder and diesel mechanic to keep dodgers together and gennies burbling,..

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Submitted by on the cusp on Tue, 04/04/2023 - 11:24pm

The problem is work.

@usefewersyllables Most of these countries do not allow you in unless you do not engage in work that would otherwise be done by locals.
Your proof of income has to satisfy them that you can live there without working. I did find that in Panama, I could teach piano lessons from my home. In Costa Rica, I could prepare a Texas will or deed via internet.
Funny how these developing nations do not allow immigrants to come in and destroy the labor force by lowering wages.
We do here, with orgasmic glee.
Your skills are so bad ass, maybe you could get waivers. Or, come to Texas...I know people who want you, fer shure!

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Submitted by usefewersyllables on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 8:48am

Same thing in Grenada.

@on the cusp

You have to appear financially independent to get a permanent residency, and you absolutely cannot displace a local with any work that you do. But as with all things, there are loopholes. I have a buddy who has a home machine shop, and went ex-pat down there. There are very few skilled machinists, so the first thing he did was a little ad-hoc work for the local cop-shop. Now, he can do whatever he pleases...

I figure that, should such a thing come to pass, I could fix a few radios for the local cops, and then be in fat city. However, first, I need to remain on this side of the grass for a few more years to hopefully get out of debt, and be able to pass the first part of the financial independence thing. We shall see...

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Submitted by Pluto's Republic on Wed, 04/05/2023 - 2:43am

So sorry, OTC. I should have added that Biden comment

@on the cusp

....somewhere else. I've been barking at Joe lately, too, and it is so futile. If Biden were of sound mind and was moving his own lips, the political results would probably be the same. I think you and I have an identical take on the situation. In the end, politics are a complete waste of energy in the US. We're all seated in the hand basket being rushed off to hell.

Panama and Mexco are on my short list, too. I read the expat forums from all those places to the south. What's funny is that the expats come from every political orientation. Few are savvy, politically, like you find at c99. It's only when they return to the US for periodic visits that they finally start to understand what's going on here. Actually, very few of these American and Canadian expats have migrated for political reasons. They migrated to live a more luxurious and healthier lifestyle. Most of them are retirees, and many are convinced that they cannot afford to live in the United States. It takes a big bank account to qualify for a Mexican residence visa, and most have qualified. Yet they they still don't believe they can afford to live in the US. To live well in nice surroundings, that is. With excellent food and health care. Health care in Mexico is truly world class, and very affordable. Most never use their Medicare. Many say that the food in Mexico has completely turned their health around. Makes me really wonder about how bad it really is here. And how we are all used to sub-standard nutrition. Maybe that's why so many died in the US during the pandemic.

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