The unprecedented healthcare cuts that President Donald Trump and the Republican Party enacted last summer have impacted people in all 50 US states, stripping insurance coverage from around 8 million Americans total and wreaking havoc on hospitals and other providers nationwide.
The advocacy group Protect Our Care on Tuesday released state-by-state fact sheets detailing how many people have lost Medicaid, Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and Affordable Care Act coverage due to Republican policy decisions, including the party’s roughly $900 billion in cuts to Medicaid and decision to let enhanced ACA subsidies expire, sending premiums skyrocketing.
But their billionaires have more billions than they ever had in their life. Trickle down economics baby!
Yeah, we’re all having the day Idiot America voted for.
Americans voted for morons that vowed to replace the ACA with nothing and that’s exactly what we’re getting.
Those meddling Democrats keep getting in the way! Every piece of legislation that is brought forth to replace the ACA is voted down by them!
— some maga asshole somewhere probably.
replace Obamacare is voted down by them!
It won’t be the ACA until they can’t see a doctor and then it’ll be “Why did those Democrats get rid of the ACA and take away my healthcare! But thank God the Republicans got rid of Obamacare at least”.
Excuse me, but I have it on good authority¹ that they’ll have a plan in two weeks. You can’t wait two weeks for them to come up with a plan? C’mon, two weeks!
¹ What do you mean Trump isn’t a good authority?
Say what you will about them, their story is consistent. They’re saying it’ll be ready in two weeks, just like they were last week, and by fuck that’s what they’ll say next week
Apparently having a concept of a plan is perfectly fine for Idiot America.
ahhh, “concept of a plan” slipped my mind. heh. Thank you for the reminder.
And people vote for that shit! D:
As intended.
And all of these 8 million will never vote Republican again, right? RIGHT?
A few million that lost their healthcare were children.
So not many votes lost for the gop. Wonder if that was part of their calculation
They want to keep people busy and desperate enough to not even bother voting. They want people focused on surviving so they can continue to break this country down and profit from it.
How many of them will even hear of this number?
You know the answer: The Republicans who were impacted will line up and vote for the only party they feel¹ cares about them at all, even though they feel that neither party truly cares about them.
Fucking fascist propaganda for decades has done its dirty work well.
¹ emphasis on “feel”
