Trump’s bill is a ‘death warrant’ say parents of sick rural kids whose treatment is tied up in Medicaid red tape
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-bill-medicaid-kids-rural-america-b2815265.html
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Archer@lemmy.world · 71 pts · 348d
Oh look, it’s the death panels
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
Actually the death panel was fired so your application for health care is just sitting on a empty desk somewhere. But we're working hard to implement Trump's idea for a health care plan. Hang tight, bootstraps are the best health care anyways. - love MAGA.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 49 pts · 348d
The party of "pro-life"
FundMECFS@anarchist.nexus · 5 pts · 347d
pro-bodies to exploit
ShittDickk@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 348d
Heh that's the final nail? Wait til rural hospitals and clinics start closing due to lack of funding. No you wont get a MRI for $20, the hospital will just close because its no longer as profitable as it could be.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 348d
And then the best part is their idiot brains will react to this by ... !
Becoming more religiously fundamentalist.
P1nkman@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 348d
Why does Obama keep doing this?
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 348d
Yep, that's the point.
Kill kill kill kill the poor, etc.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 348d
Eugenics is the point.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 348d
That's not the White way!
-Republicans
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 348d
"They're hurting the wrong people!'
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 347d
Gotta wait until they're born to be able to kill them legally.
wowwoweowza@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 348d
Trump on murder spree of infants in MAGA states? Hmmph. That’s not what I voted for.
NABDad@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 348d
It's not what I voted for, but it's what they voted for whether they knew it or not.
inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 348d
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 348d
Second mistake is living in Monroe.
ThrowawayInTheYear23@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 348d
🔥
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 348d
Good to know people still know Monroe sucks.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 348d
You'd never know Louisiana had a Democrat in the governor's mansion as recently as 2024. The whole state is condemned to this horror because liberals pooched a single election cycle and then lethargically handed dictoral power to a madman.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 348d
They also more traditionally had Democratic governors before Hurricane Katrina, which is where the state turned more Republican again.
mriguy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 348d
Because of Bush’s masterful handling of the storm? Way to go guys.
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 348d
No, because of the Democratic Governor Kathleen Blanco's handling of the storm.
Similarly, the mayor of New Orleans at the time, Ray Nagin, was a Democrat.
The locals definitely blamed them a lot more than Bush, which is fair, the hurricanes had been happening for decades and nobody had even so much as drawn up a plan to use school buses to evacuate those without vehicles. The plan was always "better hope you own a car, bitch!" which really isn't a plan at all.
Catoblepas@piefed.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 348d
You’re assuming that registration = vote, when that’s not necessarily the case. In areas where Republicans are the majority (like Louisiana) it’s not uncommon for left leaning people to register and vote in the Republican primaries and then vote Democratic in the election, because the only real time they have a voice in the political process is trying to get the least shitty Republican on the ballot.
Do I know that’s what happened here? No. And neither do you. It’s a victim blaming distraction from the fact that this administration is allowing disabled children to suffer and die.
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 348d
Yeah, this is me. I live in a district that will 100% without a doubt always go red. It’s gerrymandered to hell and back, and a democrat has absolutely zero chance of winning here… So I register R, and vote for the least crazy republican in the primaries. Because that’s the only time my vote will actually have any impact on the result. Whoever wins the republican primary will win the district, (and any democrat would be better than the crazies coming out of the Republican Party), so I try to influence the former as much as possible. Then I vote blue in the general so my stats are counted as a blue vote.
jordanlund@lemmy.world MOD · 1 pts · 348d
We do not allow doxing.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Who was doxed? And was it a person, or a function? Did you ban OP because of that? Was it not sufficient to edit/remove the comment?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
Home address of a person listed in the article. We do not allow doxing. Ban is temporary.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
That sounds strange? On a quick read, I see no obvious "evil healthcare CEO" who someone might want to dox?
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Not the CEO, the PATIENT. Regardless, posting a link to anyones home address is removable and bannable. If it's malicious, as we saw with some of the Luigi type stuff, that can be a permaban.
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
That sounds like a really weird approach by OP.
With regards to Luigi etc - well - that's a different topic. At some point, peaceful protest doesn't work anymore - the core question of debate is when that point is reached.
jordanlund@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 347d
Yeah, in this case OP was like "well, she shouldn't have voted Republican" and linked to her voter registration with home address.
No. Just... NO.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 348d
null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 13 pts · 347d
These kids didn't vote.
Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
Sins of da papi be laid upon da chilren'
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 347d
Hopefully, after 4 years of everything getting severely worse, they learn their lesson and stop voting for Republicans...
Typhoon@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 347d
Healthcare in the US has been terrible a LOT longer than 4 years. Hasn't stopped them yet.
onslaught545@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 347d
The point is that it's about to get much worse very quickly.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
And yet they'll still blame it on Biden, Clinton, and Benghazi.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 347d
operating on babies is a crazy thing, to me. I hope it's ok
how come these articles never say who the family voted for? are you hiding something?
AcidiclyBasicGlitch@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 347d
I wonder if it's really hit most poor Republican voters yet why the GOP is just ruling like there is no tomorrow? Why they seem to be on the ultimate corruption bender and living like there's no consequences for their actions.
Like it feels like they're the kid that still holds out some hope even though their parents left to go buy cigarettes almost 9 months ago. I'm sorry, but they're not coming back for you.
If you could ask them why they abandoned you, they would just give you some vague excuse about bootstraps and say they're teaching you to be self reliant.
Formfiller@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 348d
A lot of people are going to die. I hope we put all elected officials on public mob trial for these deaths.
CaliforniaSober@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 348d
Nah the dead will vote red.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 347d
“Thanks Obama”
sad_detective_man@leminal.space · 5 pts · 348d
oh you know, I'm sure somebody will donate to them. maybe they should start a TikTok and stop expecting handouts
raspberriesareyummy@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 347d
Why is OP "Banned from community"?
Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
They doxxed someone.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
This.
Op linked to her voter registration (republican of course) but that also showed her home address, which is a nono, so they got a temporary ban.
But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
This community gets people riled up and mods will ban you simply cause people got hurt feelings
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 347d
Janitors are always making mistakes and banning people for random personal reasons.
Dragomus@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 347d
But that's a build in design ... less kids and other weak folk to give decades long medical coverage to saves a lot on the medical costs the small government has!
On top of that, now with severe restrictions on research and marketing of new vaccines, there will be even less medicines in the system.
What competition there was will be wiped away when there are only a small handful of "competing" drugs left per ailment, priced the same ofcourse but just differ in side-effects.
Winning through reducing costs, losing by healing less people.
And so, 4 years down the line, we hear them boast how much costs they reduced in medicaid and still kept it running.
iAvicenna@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 347d
let me guess, did they vote for Trump?