The last time a Republican-controlled Congress and Donald Trump moved to slash Medicaid spending, in 2017, a key political force stood in their way: GOP governors.
Now, as Congress steamrolls toward passing historic Medicaid cuts of about $1 trillion over 10 years through Trump’s tax and spending legislation, red-state governors are saying little publicly about what it does to health care — even as they face reductions that will punch multibillion-dollar holes in their states’ budgets.
Medicaid, a program jointly run by states and the federal government, covers more than 70 million low-income or disabled people, including nearly half of the nation’s children. Republicans say the $900 billion-a-year program was allowed to grow too large under Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden by adding nondisabled adults they say don’t deserve government assistance, and they have long sought to scale it back.
I swear the GOP in charge must have all been promised a cool $B each to follow along with this. They know what is at stake here - the entire US hegemony is rapidly collapsing around us and our institutions built over hundreds of years are crumbling. But they’ll personally get money and be a fieflord so that’s fine I guess.
One thing I’ve learned over the years is how pitiful humans are.
You would think people who are higher ups in healthcare care systems would have good healthcare benefits. Reality is no. They still have to go through red tapes and get rejected for their care.
Like, how tf are you ruining a system meanwhile you personally also suffering from it?
I also wonder if they’ll make sure the red states aren’t hit as hard. I know the way the bill is written, we assume it’ll be enforced equally, and since red states receive more federal assistance they’ll be hit the worst. But what’s stopping them from selectively fucking blue states?
I personally know people in red states who will suffer. They’re in economically depressed areas and they are suffering life long injuries from performing skilled labor in a state that has no worker protections as a political choice.
All three of those problems are caused by republican policies to their own people.
Nah, they don’t care about their constituents. By now they know that if you’re still voting conservative you’ve already drank the Kool-aid. If you were going to vote them out for cutting Medicaid you would have voted them out years ago when they refused to expand Medicaid.
The only reason it won’t hurt some conservative states just as much as blue states is because there was already less healthcare infrastructure to begin with. My state has already shut down the majority of rural hospitals when we refused to accept free money from the Fed to expand Medicaid for like a decade.