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On Tuesday, Senate Republicans passed President Donald Trump’s intensely contested budget bill for the coming fiscal year, returning it to the House in a form that would slash $93 billion from annual federal Medicaid spending across the next decade, require states to implement Medicaid work requirements for adults (with limited exemptions), and strip health insurance from approximately 12 million people.

Trump’s success in attacking Medicaid represents a change from 2017, when disability advocates were able to convince politicians not to repeal the Affordable Care Act, which expanded Medicaid to low-income adults in the 40 states that implemented it. The new bill will undo much of that work in order to fund tax cuts that principally benefit the ultra-rich, with extreme consequences for millions of Americans kicked off insurance rolls.

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[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The US is now actively and deliberately killing poor people.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Yep, and brown people, poor or not.

Why isn't this every fucking headline on every fucking media site?

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 19 points 1 day ago

Because they're complicit.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Hey everyone, post the shit out of this. Let the republican base know what they voted for.

Medical groups warn Senate budget bill will create dystopian health care system

[–] mtpender@sh.itjust.works 3 points 23 hours ago

America already has a dystopian health care system...

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

~~Is the title a typo? It says 930 billion but the description says 93.~~

Edit: sorry nevermind I missed the 93 annually over 10 years

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 6 points 1 day ago

Yep, we need to make sure everyone knows, and hopefully we can energize people to vote against the Republican menace. So we can get energy behind some solid candidates that have the people's interests at heart!

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not only do we not have universal healthcare but we are pulling back the pittances for the poor. This is more obama care destruction which balanced the weight between emergency rooms, insurance, and doctors offices. Now ER's will bear a larger and larger burden and this is after already kicking out the mandate leg of the three legged stool.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's not just poor people though. It's people who got laid off in tech and it's taking longer to find a job, it's people who live month to month and have a job, but had an illness so they have to go unpaid, and so many more situations. This could be on average, 6 out of 10 people you know.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

It could be me come january.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So when is the next no-kings protest coming?

When will the next protest break out that will cripple the US completely and won't stop until Cheeto has left the Whitehouse?

When?

You talk shit about the French all the time but boy, do they know their protests. Take an example from them, please

[–] rbos@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I sure don't, I don't live there

I just don't want the world to go to shit