Summary
Medicaid cuts under consideration by Republicans “will cause the American people to nearly revolt,” said Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear at Semafor’s World Economy Summit.
He warned “rural healthcare will cease to exist” and predicted children, older adults, and even those with private insurance will suffer.
The House GOP is weighing $880 billion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years. A new analysis from the Center for American Progress estimated “more than 34,000 people could die each year” if enacted.
Beshear emphasized, “Medicaid covers the people we love the most… our parents and our kids.”
No matter how great your private insurance is, it won’t help you if the only hospital(s) in your area have closed down, especially when time is of the essence. Not just rural but in the less populated cities. That’s why cutting Medicaid and other safety net programs hurts everyone, not just “the poors”. Looks like a bunch of “I got mine, screw you” thinkers are about to do some finding out.
Kentucky will learn nothing from this and will break hard for trump’s third term. This isn’t sarcasm.
So? Didn’t these people vote for this? Don’t they WANT to live in a shithole country?
Or was it the assumption that only brown and black people and trans and the liberals and uppity women that were going to be harmed by them pulling the lever for the felon in chief?
That is EXACTLY what they wanted and thought.
Jokes on them a bunch of us have been living without Healthcare our entire lives. Suck it up, pull yourself up by your bootstraps or something. Idc empathy is a weakness.
“Nearly revolt”, no, no they won’t.
Sounds like a plan, though I do feel a bit bad for bashear.
However, Kentucky citizens? Have the day you voted for guys!
But didn’t rural people vote for this?
Yep, and they are lied to more than any other group on the planet.
Because they are gullible and don’t challenge those lies because those lies include attacks on black and brown people who rural people despise.
Let’s face it - many of them WANT to be lied to and many pride themselves on being and staying ignorant.
But that’s what they voted for, so they should not complain.
Also, some liberals and POC and mouthy women might suffer some, too. That will buck up their spirits.
Well I hope the people of Kentucky enjoy what they votes for
Sucks, don’t it?
Kentucky citizens demanded authoritarian corruption in their lives, by voting for the treasonous policies of Donald Trump.
Good
I thought that was the plan all along?
How did Kentucky elect a progressive governor, and the narcissistic chaos goblin as president?
It’s almost like bullet ballots needed to be double checked…
It’s almost as though all the talk from centrists about how progressives can’t win in red states was complete self-serving bullshit.
His record doesn’t exactly stand out as extremely liberal or progressive, it’s just that anyone sane these days seems super left wing vs. the current batshit crazy. He is for Abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and supports public schools in the state, but manages to do it in a way that doesn’t trigger the snowflake conservatives in the state.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear
The bottom of that Wikipedia page links to some New York Times op-eds where he divulges his secret to winning as a Democrat in a red state: hyper-focus on issues that affect his constituents directly.
New York Times op-eds where he divulges his secret to winning as a Democrat in a red state: hyper-focus on issues that affect his constituents directly.
I have been saying that shit for years and for god’s sake drop the fucking gun issues. Tell them what you can do for them. I am from WNC and it is the same people as in Kentucky. Tell what you are going to do for us and how you will make our lives better.
If he had lost, it would be touted as proof that progressives can’t win in red states. Since he won,
His record doesn’t exactly stand out as extremely liberal or progressive
His Republican opponent was black, of which roughly 95% of all districts still voted for him.
That was for his second term.
His first opponent was former governor Matt Bevin, who is a whole other piece of MAGA trash.
Some people can’t admit progressives can win red states.
Ah, well, that would do it. Racism for the win? Pardon me while I go be sick.
Welp. This is what most of them voted for.
