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[–] 18 points 1 year ago

What a bunch of idiotic failures

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Thier Gravel-For-Brains supporters won't have seen or heard about them slashing Medicaid because their favourite TV shill won't have mentioned it at all.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    That must be in the exact same way that I would love Republicans right before voting to gut them.

    ...Figuratively, of course.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    "I love Nicole Brown"
    - OJ Simpson

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  • [–] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    So for yeears to come all these rural red voters won't be able to go to their closest hospital because it closed and they will bitch and moan about it endlessly - but I still bet they won't blame Trump.

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People will die because of this.

    Murderers. Mass murderers.

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago

    And yet a big chunk of the country are still republicans, and another big chunk think doing anything to stop this is simply too gauche (pun intended) to consider. We can't fight back or be at all disruptive because then they'll do the bad things they're planning to do anyway!

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The relatively new rural hospital that's saved the lives of people in my family and offered others the ability to spend their final day(s) / hour(s) of life close to home is on the chopping block. I just found out this morning that it may be closing, specifically cited as being due to medicaid cuts.

    As far as I am aware, the next closest hospitals are going to add another 20 - 30 minutes or so to an ambulance ride for people in that area.

    I think about the "widow maker" heart attack or the aftermath of the car accident that shouldn't have been survivable, and I wonder if those situations would have turned out differently if it took 20 extra minutes before starting surgery / treatment.

    I also think about the ambulance rides that insurance increasingly considers "out of network" and thus people are on the hook for 100% of the cost. Those often charge by the mile. One way or another, things are going to be even more expensive for those folks.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    I'm honestly surprised that this bill past without mass ads rejecting it by the hospital companies. A lot of companies who own and operate rural hospitals all over the nation got a lot of their income directly from Medicaid.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    I for one hope that a lot of poor Trump voters die off as a result of their actions.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Hypocrites, you say? Yes. Every last one of them.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    People who have been profiting off the for-profit healthcare system have really fucked themselves.

    The purpose of Medicade is to externalize those who healthcare providers and insurance companies cannot squeeze a profit from: The poor, children without parents who have resources to spare, and the under-paid. Without Medicade the financial burden of all these people is going to come crashing down on the rest of the system - making it even worse than inoperable ... unprofitable.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Their voters will eat it up and vote for them again

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Weird...it's like a pattern or something with the GOP. They also came out against the infrastructure bill that passed under Biden and then turned around and touted the federal funds to their constituents.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    They should be gutted

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Insert Eric Andre meme - " Why would the other politicians do this?"

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    All for the soundbytes.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    You see by taking the underage childrens virginity they are protecting it by keeping the bad people from doing it later.

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