The clearest legislative priority of the Trump administration and the Republican-led Congress is to keep taxes low for the richest households and corporations. Last week, House Republicans submitted a budget resolution that calls for $880 billion in cuts to Medicaid—the program that provides health insurance for low-income Americans—to help pay for extending the 2017 Tax…

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  • Skyrmir@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 hours ago

    Everyone is about to get burned, and red states the worst. I guess congress has decided the sick and poor don’t own enough guns to worry about.

    • kbotc@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      5 minutes ago

      It just doesn’t make any fucking sense: They’re acting like there will be no more elections, which, OK: That’s Trump’s dream, but they’re pissing off everyone they need to pull that off. The bureaucrats, the military, and a sizable chunk of the true believers to replace the turnover that happens in authoritarian rule are needed to hold onto power.

  • SolacefromSilence@fedia.io
    9·
    3 hours ago

    I’m kinda wondering where these insurance or healthcare companies are at. This is literally taking billions out of their pocket as people will just go without healthcare and/or die.

    I guess they’re looking out for their personal tax rate instead of caring about their business or who they serve. Foolish for be to be surprised, but it just seems so short sighted.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 hours ago

      It’s a slippery, accelerative slope. Companies never would have price gouged the way they did during and after COVID 30 years ago; they didn’t have the technology, data and also lack of fear of antitrust. Each new cohort gets worse in company practices and voila!

      Everyone always also sees themselves on the lifeboat, not being the one who pays the piper. Just like the 70% of lottery players who think they will win.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    19·
    5 hours ago

    Americans are going to be totally fucked if they’re not a part of the .01% of oligarchs now running this country and part of Trumps cabinet.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 hours ago

      It’s a tried and true model. It also has tried and true historic results, for the populace…and eventually the powerful.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    43·
    6 hours ago

    I’ve been on medicaid for the past 10 years. This year my renewal was denied for “too much income”. I asked what the cutoff was. I was told $803 per month income.

    My 1 bedroom apartment that may as well be called a studio is $795 per month, and will be going up by at least $70 in July.

    In 2023 I was diagnosed with cancer. Which I beat. But now you’re telling me

    “Oh well, you’re on your own now. Your last 3 month period cost over 1 million dollars. You WERE on medicaid, so you’re covered. But that runs out in 3 days. Good luck asshole!”

    • jimjam5@lemmy.world
      8·
      6 hours ago

      Drives me mad how we have not thrown down greedy medical practices in favor of universal healthcare yet 🙄 but I guess that’s too close to the socialist sun 😒

    • FoxyFerengi@lemm.ee
      4·
      6 hours ago

      That’s insane, that’s less than what a full time minimum wage job would pay in a month. Heck, that’s significantly less than what I am paid in ssdi every month

      • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
        9·
        4 hours ago

        Yeah. Back in december I thought “I’m barely making my head above water…” and decided to take a second job. Which, I hate the job itself, but the people are pretty good people. I’m used to new workplaces where you’re new to be filled with just the worst people. I’m used to toxic chaos. And if that had been the case, I’d have quit by now. But, it’s an extra $100ish dollars a week after taxes. It adds up.

        So when I saw I was above income level, I was like “Whooooa, maybe I should just quit my second job if it means keeping my medicaide”.

        Then I heard how low the threshold was, and I said “Well, actually…the second job had nothing to do with it…”

        So I guess someone who makes 12 dollars an hour is too rich for medicaid now.

        This is a problem affecting me, but it’s a bigger problem thats going to affect millions. I don’t have money to go out and pay $400 a month for health insurance.

        I’m not even making my bills now as it is. Rent’s going to go up in July. Yet somehow I don’t qualify for food stamps, or now even medicaide.

        You think I’m alone? You think the medical industry isn’t about to collapse on itself? Imagine all these people who go to the ER. And then get billed 3 million dollars. No I’m NOT exaggerating. I got a statement that said “this is not a bill”. It showed my services used. In a 3 month period, I was over 1 million dollars. I’ve been doing this since 2023. I’m fairly sure my total is closer to 5 million dollars.

        Now…imagine they try to collect that.

        Most they could do is arrest me. So now you got millions of prisoners. In a 1 year period. Where are you going to put them?

        So, more likely they won’t arrest, but they won’t get their money. Now compound this. Millions of people all rendering services, which are now emergancy services. Which cannot be denied.

        And then never paid because nobody has millions of dollars lying around.

        How would the medical system NOT financially collapse?

        Edit: I don’t always know how I come off to others. I typed this up angry. If it comes off as me being angry at you, I appologize. I’m not angry at you, or intending any direction at you.

        I’m just angry.