Post AvIEnFfxeiEitNRYyu by ATyj8GNyvVJIXkGeLA.lori@cambrian.social
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 (DIR) Post #AvHzhDSDVKSGx4g8Q4 by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2025-06-19T13:13:23Z
       
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       suppose you cut medicaid, but create a “stabilization fund” to hold hospitals harmless, prevent rural hospitals from shuttering.all you’ve done is created income for hospitals without requiring—or even allowing—them to actually do the work of helping those who would have been medicaid recipients.
       
 (DIR) Post #AvIEnFfxeiEitNRYyu by ATyj8GNyvVJIXkGeLA.lori@cambrian.social
       2025-06-19T15:58:52Z
       
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       What would be the upside in this?
       
 (DIR) Post #AvIEnGkFgFGMCySVJA by interfluidity@zirk.us
       2025-06-19T16:02:56Z
       
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       @lori you get to vote for cutting medicaid because that’s what your party wants to do but you evade the criticism that the effect will be to close hospitals that even some of your better-off / better enfranchised constituents rely upon.the cost of stabilization fund is probably smaller than the medicaid cuts, so you can still claim net “savings” (although the costs in health will dwarf any financial savings, and the financial savings might be eaten by expensive mandatory ER care).