Post Aul3FGm0AAs2v0Sceu by Nonilex@masto.ai
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(DIR) Post #Aul2SmlMRCFHwX2fK4 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:38:52Z
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#GiftArticleThe #GOP’s New #Medicaid DenialismUnable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.#law #Trumphttps://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
(DIR) Post #Aul2axKd1j732RQyXo by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:40:55Z
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The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, by imposing #Medicaid #WorkRequirements, the bill would eventually increase the #uninsured population by at least 8.6M. At first, #Republicans tried to defend this outcome on the grounds that it would affect only lazy people who refuse to work. This is clearly untrue, however.#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
(DIR) Post #Aul2eOwEqIl3WlfWEq by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:41:32Z
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As voluminous research literature shows, #WorkRequirements achieve savings by implementing burdensome paperwork obligations that mostly take #Medicaid from eligible beneficiaries, not 25-yr-old guys who prefer playing video games to getting a job.#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
(DIR) Post #Aul2ryRs7yllQPw9o0 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:44:00Z
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Perhaps for that reason, some #Republicans in Washington are now making even more audacious claims. On CNN over the weekend, #OMB Dir #RussVought insisted that “no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill.” Likewise, #JoniErnst, a #Republican senator from Iowa, recently told voters at a town hall, “Everyone says that #Medicaid is being cut, people are going to see their benefits cut; that’s not true.” After one attendee shouted, “People will die,” Ernst replied, “We all are going to die.”
(DIR) Post #Aul324Rqfyi0vcjygC by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:45:49Z
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#JoniErnst later doubled down on hercomment on social media, attempting to equate concern that #Medicaid cuts could harm people with believing in the tooth fairy.Ofcls such as #RussVought & Ernst have not provided a detailed explanation of their blithe assurances. But there is one center of conservative thought that has attempted to defend these claims: the WSJ editorial page.#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
(DIR) Post #Aul3FGm0AAs2v0Sceu by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:48:12Z
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Last week, the WSJ editorial page published an editorial headlined “The Medicaid Scare Campaign.” The thesis is that the #Medicaid cuts would “improve healthcare by expanding private insurance options, which provide better access & health outcomes than Medicaid.”This would be, as they say, huge if true: The #GOP has found a way to give #LowIncome Americans better #healthcare while saving hundreds of billions in taxpayer money.#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
(DIR) Post #Aul3Fyu05nPfmYXdEe by trentado@shakedown.social
2025-06-03T15:48:19Z
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@Nonilex and she did the video double down while at a cemetery 🙄
(DIR) Post #Aul3QUSDdcb6XCYeS8 by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:50:14Z
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The timing is even more remarkable, given that this wondrous solution has come along at precisely the moment when congressional #Republicans are desperate for budget savings to partially offset the costs of a regressive & fiscally irresponsible tax cut.Sadly [if unsurprisingly], a close reading of WSJ’s editorial reveals that no such miracle is in the offing.#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
(DIR) Post #Aul3U1UbG5czs0M94K by Nonilex@masto.ai
2025-06-03T15:50:52Z
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Instead, the argument relies on a series of misunderstandings [#disinformation] & non sequiturs to obscure the obvious fact that cutting #Medicaid would make #poor people sicker & more likely to die.#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
(DIR) Post #Aul4Bj9MogsVivGSDQ by stevetheboxer@c.im
2025-06-03T15:58:45Z
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@Nonilex Ernst ended her so-called apology video by telling viewers to follow Jesus Christ. I am all for Jesus Christ. However, using the holy name of Jesus at the end of a snarky and disparaging video adds yet another layer of disrespect to Ernst's comments.Kicking millions of people off their health insurance doesn't seem like following Jesus very closely.
(DIR) Post #Aul4R6ZC2KnCgzg2HQ by reiterator@mas.to
2025-06-03T16:01:30Z
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@Nonilex Their premise is if you lose coverage you didn’t deserve to have it. Truly orwellian.
(DIR) Post #Aul6zY2aavxfejyiNE by paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange
2025-06-03T16:30:10Z
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@Nonilex they are so beyond evil."no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill.”their entire agenda and bragging point is all the "illegals" and "ineligible" they are getting off medicaid...they not only lie, they lie like a 2 year old."an elephant ran in and broke this lamp"
(DIR) Post #Aul7KW78x82dlK6hxQ by stevetheboxer@c.im
2025-06-03T16:33:53Z
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@Nonilex The idea of supposedly lazy people who refuse to go to work is an offensive right-wing notion with little basis in fact. Its adherents use such tripe to sell their Medicaid cuts to voters who have not received accurate information.That notion has precedent. In the 1980s, the same kinds of people yammered about some fictitious "welfare queen" who was dressed to the nines, riding in a chauffer-driven Cadillac limousine, to the local welfare office to pick up her public aid check. Total fiction! Total damned, outrageous fiction.
(DIR) Post #AulEB85zaDZMLK2W80 by mloxton@med-mastodon.com
2025-06-03T17:50:36Z
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@Nonilex They have had (excuse my language) fucking DECADES to come up with a national healthcare plan, and have so far done only sight gags like pointing at piles of blank paper and random printouts as "their plan" that would be better, cheaper, most inclusive, and be available next week, next month, at least next quarter.What they have actually done goes beyond medical fiction and pipe dreams, and long ago entered the realm of outright abuse. The work requirements stuff is toxic bullshit
(DIR) Post #AulF0ADVSLZbgrtC76 by jstatepost@mstdn.social
2025-06-03T17:59:54Z
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@Nonilex Bullshit!
(DIR) Post #AulLoe17X7gMJnYARk by JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org
2025-06-03T19:16:16Z
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@Nonilex There is an answer for reducing massive health care costs, it's simple and proven effective by pretty much every country in the world that isn't named the United States: put everyone on publicly funded health care and pay for it through your taxes. Canada has it, for example, and we pay about half what Americans do for health care.
(DIR) Post #AulukQiWXM2SJ4ZrYe by Anonomouse1981@mstdn.social
2025-06-04T01:47:38Z
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@Nonilex VOUGHT, the one who headed Project 2025.He lies as much as Orange T, but sadly is more believable.