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.

  • HubertManne@piefed.social
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    23 hours ago

    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.worksOPM
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      23 hours ago

      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.