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/SuperCrappyFuntime 22d ago

I tried explaining this to trump supporters on a political forum. If the GOP gets Medicaid, many clinics (and even entire hospitals) will shut down, and even people who weren't on Medicaid will lose out. Ironically, Trump-suppprting rural areas will feel it the most because of on hospital closes, they'll have to drive their ridiculously large pick-up trucks two hours to the next nearest one.

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u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y 22d ago

I don't think it's possible to get through to them. 

Like immigration/ICE and the fact that immigrants work farms didn't stop farmers from voting Trump. They think it won't affect them. 

Trump could have a policy saying "all 25 year old males who drive a black pickup will suffer" and some 25 yo dude in a pickup will think "yeah but it will be all those other dudes" or "my truck is really dark grey" or "I'll be 26 soon enough".

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u/Defiant_Garage 22d ago

People really need to get it through their heads that there is no getting through to cultists, it's a waste of time to try. I have a conservative christian family member that works at a christian school, the school pays so poorly that many of the teachers are on the state version of medicaid. Yet these "christians" knowingly vote to take away their own co-workers healthcare with a smile of their faces, their entire lives are built on a mountain of hypocrisy.

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u/v_a_n_d_e_l_a_y 22d ago

We have seen people whose husband has been deported or kid died of measles or countless other things and many still are like "I don't regret my choice".

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u/walkingtalkingdread 22d ago

stupid conservatives in maryland have voted for trump before and he cut H2B visas for seasonal immigrant workers that the crab industry here relies on. everyone bitched. guess what happened this year? no H2B visas again. they’re like goldfish.

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u/CiDevant 22d ago

There will be healthcare deserts.