@Remittancegirl This IS their Achilles's Heel. They don't accept they are as much beneficiaries of the "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" as those they blame. The gutting of Medicaid will shove this absolute reality into their homes and pockets more than any single brutal act by Trumpism. MAGA benefits from taxpaid wealth transfer in Medicaid in ways they take for granted, in ways they assume is a given. It was, under Democrats, never so under the GOP.
Medicaid affects more Americans than just Democrats or Blue States or poor people. Skilled Nursing homes are 63% funded by Medicaid. Those 37% full pay left cannot alone keep rehab/nursing/SNFs afloat. No more rehab when Dad is released from the hospital to recover or get PT. No more we sent grandma to the nursing home because no one can take care of her 24/7. MAGA has to quit their job to stay home, pay out of pocket, and go bankrupt to actually do what their hated Beta compassionate loser "Nanny State" does for them now.
They will lose their own direct and trickle down taxpaid benefits if anyone in their family depends on hospitals or health clinics or labs or pharmacies that depend on: Medicaid and ACA patients as more than 10% of their pay pool, Medicare patient who qualify for Medicaid subsidies including primary and specialist care, labs, rehab, pharmacies, PT/OT services, Federal Community Grants Sec 303, USDA rural med/hospital grants, HRSA grants...
MAGA took a wilful blind eye to their own hated DEI Nanny State benefits, because they assumed they were never the losers who needed our help. So, they killed it all, and then were surprised to have committed suicide.