GOP civil war breaks out over Medicaid as right calls for deeper cuts

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1. People pay taxes to fund medicaid. If you make over $14,600 you are paying this tax. So if the Republicans want to rob this fund to give massive tax breaks to billionaires they better expect push back. Why are the Republicans always fighting to give millionaires and billionaires more money? How does this help the USA? It doesn’t, and there will be effects caused by millions of people losing healthcare.

2. Personally I’m of the opinion that both the Medicaid cuts and the work requirements are wrong. We shouldn’t be adding red tape and bureaucracy because the Republicans think people enrolled in Medicaid are sitting on their couch playing video games as Moses Johnson seems to think.

   If I had my way we’d merge Medicaid and Medicare into a universal public option open to all citizens.

3. Personally, I’m fucking tired of the GOP. You want to steal from the poor to give to the rich. Sounds like solid reasoning to fuck around and fight out.

4. Most people on Medicaid work. They just work at jobs that don’t provide insurance or if they do it’s unaffordable. Medicaid saves money in the long run as people get care and can treat issues before they become full blown crises and require emergency room care or kill them. 

5. I am cry/laughing at the amount of hospitals and businesses that will die because of this.

   Its a strange world where you can agree with Josh Hawley of all people.

6. They (maga) should die on this hill…

7. Understand what happens when you reduce any government paid healthcare.

   First, this has no real effect on the very poorest (homeless, migrants, etc) because they usually avoid institutions and enrollment.

   Second, those who would otherwise qualify, but end up losing their coverage will just avoid seeking non-emergency and preventative care. This makes their conditions worsen with no routine care. When they do finally seek treatment they have become very sick, and usually go to the ER. This is the most expensive and least effective way to treat any condition. Since they have no coverage but require care, the hospital gets them stable (or they die) and nobody will pay the bill. This comes out of the hospital’s revenue.

   If hospitals lose too much money, they limit services, cut staff, and eventually go bankrupt. At that point the community at large suffers and all of us are subject to shortages, wait times, and less access to more expensive care.

   In short, while cutting Medicaid does succeed in the Republican goal of killing poor people, it also contributes to the enshittification of the American healthcare landscape and ends up making all of us sicker and poorer.

8. Good 

9. Only in America, do we believe that people work full-time, but can’t afford a medical care, are lazy

   I make a pretty damn good living. I make a very good living. Better than most people.

   Last year I spent $55,000 on medical care… And no one even got sick. Just normal stuff.

   I have no idea how I would’ve done it if I was less well off.

10. Cutting Medicaid will bring the system down, which is what might be needed to shift from a private for-profit model to universal coverage.

    So long-term, the temporary collapse of the healthcare system that forces a systemic upgrade might be exactly what the next generations need.

11. Oh we would never touch it.

    Well We might have touch it.

    Yeah we’re gonna touch it.

    We’re gonna take it all and you get none.

    We’re gonna repropreate it to the private sector(our friends).

    Sincerely, the Lying GOP

12. These people are ghouls. Fucking evil selfish garbage behavior.

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