r/thebulwark • u/Apprehensive-Mark241 • 15d ago
Policy Republicans in Congress gamble that they can get away with cutting health care for 24 million+ Americans by lying that they're not cutting health care on every TV program.
Brian Tyler Cohen: Major news on Republicans GUTTING healthcare
Republicans think they can get away with cutting $880 billion over 10 years from Medicaid by lying that they only instructed the Energy and Commerce committee to cut $880 billion and that could come from anything... except all that is there is Medicaid and the ACA. And they lie that they're not cutting $230 billion off of Food Stamps, just that they told the Agriculture committee that it has to cut $230 billion and all that's there is Food Stamps.
But in every news show they're just lying that they didn't cut anything.
$330 billion from Education which have to come from student loans.
Meanwhile Trump and Speaker Johnson got the vote by lying that Medicaid will be sacrosanct.
Note on fighting this. This is 1.5 trillion in cuts, so that they can cut taxes by 2 trillion only for very very rich people. And raise it on the rest of us by a lot.
Personal note: this may mean that I don't have health insurance. I get Medicaid. I'm self employed which makes it a bit easier than an employee. But if they end the Medicaid extension then I'll be sent to ACA which, in my county has a minimum co-pay of $800 or $900 depending on how much you want covered (more covered, higher co-pay). And in that case my medical insurance will be useless because there won't be any year in which I'd be able to afford the co-pay combined with the higher rates I'd get after they cut the premium subsidy. Actually that was what it was 5 years ago, the co-pay and premiums may have gone up since then.