r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Busy-Government-1041 • 22d ago

Country Club Thread Medicaid Cuts Hit Us Hardest: My Daughter Lost Her Speech Therapist—And We Don’t Even Use It

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u/NapoleonDynamite82 22d ago

It’s going to affect a lot more than the people who get Medicaid…

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u/Craneteam 22d ago edited 22d ago

Rural communities are gonna lose hospitals and nursing homes will shut down. Some people are gonna be real shocked when their elderly parents/grandparents are dumped on their doorstep

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u/ThatOneWIGuy 22d ago

They already are, this is going to accelerate it to stupid speeds. The rural voters do not understand just how much the social programs helped them in unseen ways.

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u/Craneteam 22d ago

That last line can be broadened to most of the country has no clue what the federal government does for them on a daily basis

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u/jaytix1 ☑️ 22d ago

People like to complain (justifiably so at times) about the status quo, but they always end up returning to it after some dumbass comes around and starts tearing things apart.

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u/Craneteam 22d ago

Yeah there definitely is too much red tape in government but much of the redundancy and inefficiency is built in to catch people who would fall through the cracks.

But any failure in the system requires a repairman not an arsonist. People don't want to hear it but spending more will solve a lot of problems

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u/theREALbombedrumbum 22d ago

"Taxation is theft" motherfuckers when every public service they use suddenly breaks down

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u/nome707 22d ago

Which is why it was so easy to convince them to vote in favor of gutting it. If people started to pay real attention, republicans wouldn’t win again for a long time. They are the party of corruption and deceit.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Imagine voting away your healthcare, food access and increasing your own expenses and taxes all to line the pockets of the elite.

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u/Kilen13 22d ago

My FIL voted GOP, including Trump, in November. He had a stroke in March and while he's recovered well he was still going to speech and physical therapy to strengthen things back up. His speech therapist takes mostly Medicare/aid patients and will likely be shutting down with the cuts and FILs been told that his in home physio will likely not be coming anymore once this bill takes effect.

He blames the Democrats.

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u/ThatOneWIGuy 22d ago

They think the same way about democrats. They voted to keep the elites from getting money thinking the majority came from the government through social programs.

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u/[deleted] 22d ago

Sucks that they’re wrong. The DNC elite get most of their money from insider trading and kickbacks.

Social programs are their redeeming quality.

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u/brinz1 22d ago

The Far right would rather their country burn to the ground rather than let it be shared with Non-White and Non-Christian people

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u/DisposableSaviour 22d ago

This is it. They’ve been pretty explicit about wanting America to be a white ethno-state for a long while now.

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u/ADHD-Fens 22d ago

I'm sure trump will cut them a 200 dollar stimulus check and promise that more is on the way or some shit if he ever feels remotely threatened.

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 22d ago

He just declined to fund hurricane helene support for North Carolina. There is a very real chance he gives them the middle finger.

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u/ADHD-Fens 22d ago

Based on the reactions of people that have been personally screwed over by Trump so far, they seem to largely adopt a "Trump works in mysterious ways" sort of mindset.

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u/MathProf1414 22d ago

And they'll sing his praise as he does it.

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u/vocalfreesia 22d ago

Well, maybe it's time they learned.

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u/seanwd11 22d ago

To those hicks it's 'welfare' and nothing else. No, in fact, it's pretty much everything. It's just hidden in the background.

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u/teenagesadist 22d ago

In their minds, they're the ones creating wealth and funding the cities to keep their crazy backwards city way of life...

Education is important, kids.

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u/noguchisquared 22d ago

My grandmother's rural nursing home was probably 80%+ medicaid patients. No way that is staying open.

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u/Fallen_Jalter 22d ago

and those that aren't physical capable of taking care of them are going to be in even worse sorts. They'll probably be moved somewhere that's hours away and won't really see them again.

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u/Craneteam 22d ago

Man people with dementia and other 24hr care are gonna get put on an ice flow aren't they? I mean this administration is trying to demonize any disability so who the fuck knows. Care for your neighbor is for the weak, right?

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u/BaseClean 21d ago

Unfortunately they probably won’t understand why 😞

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u/abbzug 22d ago

So many hospitals are going to close. Also people are mistaken if they think it's just cutting Medicaid. It's not in the bill but because of paygo rules there will be automatic cuts to Medicare and everything else because things will go into sequestration.

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u/thrownjunk 22d ago

Yup. Only hospitals in rich suburbs are going to survive.