The Trump Presidency 2.0
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Who is getting their medical coverage cut? Specifically?
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From what I’m reading, it’s going to hit a lot of people low-income families, older folks, rural hospitals. And yeah, I’m sure the Trump Corporation is trying to spin it like they’re just targeting “fraud,” and that it won’t affect anyone who really deserves it . But I trust the GOP with healthcare about as much as I trust the Democrats with 2A rights which is zero, and always will be zero.
The low-income families cohort is the largest area of fraud, waste, and abuse in the system. The talking point here is the SNAP program, where abuse is rampant. There may be index cases of low-income families being affected; there is breakage in every piece of legislation we do. It's not a zero sum game, it's a game of net positive and net negative.
Not sure what you mean by older adults or how they're impacted, the bill strengthens long-term care, efficiencies gained provide a healthier bottom line for seniors that need it, long-term care increased and focused, an increase in premiums is speculative at best, just a lie at worst.
Rural hospitals account for a total of 7% of spending (and that's how privatized hospitals generate revenue, by the way). There is actually a $25B subsidy for these hospitals to create jobs and offset the cuts.
To your bolded- do you mean Congress, Senate, and our elected officials? Republicans? Influencers? Who is in this Trump Corporation? I might apply. Everyone is going to spin and message, it's politics.
I have a myriad of issues with the BBB, for a lot of different reasons- but as I said before, the line of attack on medicare/medicaid is ham-handed fearmongering and misinformation from folks that haven't read it/understand it.
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I’m actually a big proponent of enacting constraints on Medicaid and Medicare. They are enormously expensive. However I think a better way would be to penalize companies that employ a full time worker who still qualifies for these things. If you work full time, at say Wal Mart, who is the largest employer of people on SNAP and Medicaid, you should not need to be on Medicaid and SNAP.
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All of these posts may be true but I have my OWN truth ----------------->
- FRAUD: when you eliminate billions in fraudulent government spending; you are taking money out of a hard working, motivated, creative, dishonest persons pocket
- WASTE: get rid of all the waste in our system; and you are putting people out of work - admittedly most of them are people with 'no show jobs' or government contract jobs that pay E8 pay for something an E4 did 20 years ago - but still, putting them out of work
- ABUSE: when you eliminate the systemic and wildly irresponsible abuse of our countless social programs, you are taking gourmet food out of a fat little rich babies mouth - because it ALWAYS about the children
- Eliminate fraud, waste, AND abuse and you are putting an entire class of people out of work that retired from the military so they could go to work as Fox/CNN News contributors...
...that fearmonger us into stratospheric levels of military spending
...to make up for all of the capabilities that we don't have so that we can compete with "the pacing threat"
...even though these same 'Military Consultants' just spent decades telling congress and the aMErican people that we were head and shoulders above anything that our 'near-peers' had to offer.
Just remember:
These people doing all of the frauding, wasting, and abusing are voters - just like the rest of us. The difference is, they can afford their own politicians.
I cannot.
So until I can afford my own politicians, here I am, routinely voting AGAINST the shittier of two shitty choices until some one comes along that I can gleefully vote FOR
And I'm not holding my breath.
Our governing body is full of pimps and whores...
...and bartenders
...and what exactly is anyone going to do about it?
- FRAUD: when you eliminate billions in fraudulent government spending; you are taking money out of a hard working, motivated, creative, dishonest persons pocket
- WASTE: get rid of all the waste in our system; and you are putting people out of work - admittedly most of them are people with 'no show jobs' or government contract jobs that pay E8 pay for something an E4 did 20 years ago - but still, putting them out of work
- ABUSE: when you eliminate the systemic and wildly irresponsible abuse of our countless social programs, you are taking gourmet food out of a fat little rich babies mouth - because it ALWAYS about the children
- Eliminate fraud, waste, AND abuse and you are putting an entire class of people out of work that retired from the military so they could go to work as Fox/CNN News contributors...
...that fearmonger us into stratospheric levels of military spending
...to make up for all of the capabilities that we don't have so that we can compete with "the pacing threat"
...even though these same 'Military Consultants' just spent decades telling congress and the aMErican people that we were head and shoulders above anything that our 'near-peers' had to offer.
Just remember:
These people doing all of the frauding, wasting, and abusing are voters - just like the rest of us. The difference is, they can afford their own politicians.
I cannot.
So until I can afford my own politicians, here I am, routinely voting AGAINST the shittier of two shitty choices until some one comes along that I can gleefully vote FOR
And I'm not holding my breath.
Our governing body is full of pimps and whores...
...and bartenders
...and what exactly is anyone going to do about it?
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Oh, like when McDonald's had an employee help line that Told fulltime employees how to apply for SNAP and Medicaid?
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