NonilexThe #GOP’s New #Medicaid Denialism
Unable to defend their #healthcare #cuts on the merits, congressional #Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.
Republicans in #Congress claim to have achieved something truly miraculous. Their One Big Beautiful Bill Act, they argue, would cut nearly $800B from Medicaid spending over 10yrs without causing any Americans to lose #health care—or, at least, without making anyone who loses health care worse off.
#law #Trump
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/06/medicaid-cuts-tax-bill/683018/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxehuZomZV-OE0U-cMvwG0vA&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, by imposing #Medicaid #WorkRequirements, the bill would eventually increase the #uninsured population by at least 8.6M. At first, #Republicans tried to defend this outcome on the grounds that it would affect only lazy people who refuse to work. This is clearly untrue, however.
#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
As voluminous research literature shows, #WorkRequirements achieve savings by implementing burdensome paperwork obligations that mostly take #Medicaid from eligible beneficiaries, not 25-yr-old guys who prefer playing video games to getting a job.
#law #HealthInequity #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #Trump #eugenics
Perhaps for that reason, some #Republicans in Washington are now making even more audacious claims. On CNN over the weekend, #OMB Dir #RussVought insisted that “no one will lose coverage as a result of this bill.” Likewise, #JoniErnst, a #Republican senator from Iowa, recently told voters at a town hall, “Everyone says that #Medicaid is being cut, people are going to see their benefits cut; that’s not true.” After one attendee shouted, “People will die,” Ernst replied, “We all are going to die.”
Anonomouse13VOUGHT, the one who headed Project 2025.
He lies as much as Orange T, but sadly is more believable.