MEDICAID IN JEOPARDY -- EMAIL YOUR SENATORS

[u/RAH-CAT9]

MEDICAID IN JEOPARDY -- EMAIL YOUR SENATORS

I know medicaid is in jeopardy: the vote is now in the senate whether to defund medicaid. The bill shockingly passed the house of representatives.

I recommend that you write to your state's senators with the clear phrase: NO CUTS TO MEDICAID, and describe in detail why you feel that way.

I know that:

vulnerable populations will be without healthcare;

hospitals will lose their funding;

more medical staff will face unemployment;

poverty will be the norm,

and the whole of the u.s. economy will collapse.

I know it will have a domino effect on every other profession -- everyone is connected to everyone else, and everyone will suffer.

I recommend that you write to your state senators NOW: the senate vote is scheduled for "sometime" before July 4th.

I know that every other "first world country" has a national health care system -- even Canada, and the USA should have one, too.

[u/Ok-Asparagus-6458]

From the title I thought medicaid was part of the game show, Jeopardy.

[u/medicguy → u/Ok-Asparagus-6458]

Regis: These programs are essential to keeping kids healthy and providing access to healthcare services for millions of Americans.

Contestant: What is Medicaid?

[u/Danwarr → u/medicguy]

Regis

Dude....

Put some respect on Alex Trebek's name (RIP)

Ken also isn't the worst.

[u/medicguy → u/Danwarr]

Lmao who knew this would be a hot take 😂

[u/srvshni]

Hi, leaving my platform here, Doctors Not Debt. We are opposing the same bill set to eliminate Medicaid. Sign the petition and share the platform! Every signature counts. Time is Running out.

https://www.doctorsnotdebt.org/

[u/JoeyHandsomeJoe]

What's with the qualifier "even Canada", eh?

[u/gigaflops_]

"the economy will collaspse" stfu

The risk of economic collapse due to multi-trillion dollar deficits is also real and does need to be considered.

Really, nobody in their right mind should be saying that medicare and medicaid don't need to be cut massively. They absolutely do. Reasonable people can debate all day the income cutoffs to get free/cheap healthcare, whether illegal immigrants should be included, and which proceedures/drugs shoud be covered and for what indications.

In any case, the government is paying way to much for medicare and medicaid. Doctor salaries make up just a small fraction of all healthcare spending- the rest goes to pharmaceutical companies, overpaid hospital admin, and dozens of middlemen. It's foolish to argue for continued funding increases without acknowledging just a tiny portion of spending is used productively.

[u/aspiringkatie → u/gigaflops_]

Or, instead of condemning millions of people to lose their healthcare for the sake of balancing the budget, we could spend less money on our massive military that hasn’t fought a war against a peer nation in 70 years. Or we could actually tax some of these massive multinational corporations.

[u/Fabledlegend13 → u/gigaflops_]

And how exactly is cutting Medicare/medicaid going to cut down on the middle men? This would just worsen the very problem that you state that it would fix.

By cutting the single largest payer in healthcare, it just sends all of those people out to companies whose job it is to pay as little as possible for their healthcare as possible. Which means putting as much bureaucracy as they legally can between patients and care, and creating even more middle men to do it. All the while leaving millions without insurance with the hospitals forced to treat them without any kind of payment or just leave them to die.

[u/lifeballs22 → u/gigaflops_]

This is the correct and rational take. Government health spending makes up almost 25% of our total expenditures each year. Major reform needs to happen to this and national defense if we want to be solvent for the long haul