dangerous radical activists arrested in the Russell Senate Building today
yesterday, Mitch McConnell said he hears people back home complaining about Medicare/Medicaid cuts, "but they'll get over it"
(death is the last physician, Republican policy tends to hasten the appointment)
Last edited by Winehole23; 06-25-2025 at 05:59 PM.
He's not perfect (no one is, really), but Bernie is a dang near unicorn in politics.
All that blubber is doing more to hasten it
from March this year
https://www.gelliottmorris.com/p/who...lar-us-elected
Trump is filled with satanic inspiration, he may outlast his body
Yupp, definitely figures! Of course the dumber comments on there are from the Spite-Wingies.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b2777036.htmlProtesters in wheelchairs cuffed with zip-ties during Capitol demonstrations against Medicaid cuts
A group of protesters, some in wheelchairs, were arrested and zip-tied on Capitol Hill and dragged out by police officers as they demonstrated against proposed cuts to Medicaid in Republicans' massive spending package.
Proposed cuts could mean that some 10 million low-income Americans would lose coverage over the course of the next 10 years. The legislation would also put in place additional work requirements for those using the program.
At least 33 people were arrested for “illegally demonstrating” inside the Russell Senate Rotunda, a Capitol Police spokesperson told The Independent on Wednesday.
The group was arrested for “crowding, obstructing, and incommoding,” police said.
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Trump is going to cause an elder care crisis
https://hcp.hms.harvard.edu/news/stu...tion-need-careA recent study in Health Affairs led by postdoctoral research fellow, Hankyung Jun, and co-authored by Professor of Health Care Policy, David Grabowski, examined the prevalence and effect of the growing immigrant workforce in nursing home care. They examined national and state-level trends in the percentage of immigrant CNAs working in nursing homes using data from 2000 to 2021 and used pre-pandemic data to determine how a higher share of immigrant workers affected patient care.
The study found that the share of foreign-born CNAs increased from 13.6 percent in the 2000s to 19.1 percent during the pandemic, which can be explained by a decrease in the number of native-born staff. The share varied substantially across states, from less than 1 percent in West Virginia to more than 70 percent in Hawaii. Additionally, nursing homes in regions with a higher share of immigrant CNAs were associated with better patient care; high percentages of immigrant CNAs resulted in more direct care staff hours per resident day and better overall nursing home quality performance.
"There will be no amnesty. The mass deportations continue, but in a strategic way. And we move the workforce toward automation and 100% American participation, which with 34 million able-bodied on Medicaid we should be able to do fairly quickly."
offsetting tax cuts for the rich on the backs of the neediest people imaginable
https://www.cbpp.org/research/social...rly-400000-lowThe Trump Administration is preparing to propose a rule to cut Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits and strip eligibility for hundreds of thousands of low-income older people and severely disabled adults and children.[1]
Under the rule, nearly 400,000 SSI beneficiaries living with family or friends experiencing their own financial struggles likely would have their benefits cut — typically by hundreds of dollars per month — or lose eligibility altogether.[2]
by passing a bill that adds trillions of dollars in new deficits, cuts to Medicare will be automatic unless Congress acts
https://apnews.com/article/cbo-medic...cc99654c8a7547The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare if Congress does not act, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported Friday.
The CBO estimates that Medicare, the federal health insurance program for Americans over age 65, could potentially see as much as $491 billion in cuts from 2027 to 2034 if Congress does not act to mitigate a 2010 law that forces across-the-board cuts to many federal programs once legislation increases the federal deficit. The latest report from CBO showed how Trump’s signature tax and spending law could put new pressure on federal programs that arebedrocks of the American social safety net.
Trump and Republicans pledged not to cut Medicare as part of the legislation, but the estimated $3.4 trillion that the law adds to the federal deficit over the next decade means that many Medicare programs could still see cuts. In the past, Congress has always acted to mitigate cuts to Medicare and other programs, but it would take some bipartisan cooperation to do so.
GOP to special needs kids: eat and die
https://calmatters.org/education/k-1...-disabilities/Trump’s budget includes nearly $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, which funds a wide swath of services to disabled children, including speech, occupational and physical therapy, wheelchairs, in-home aides and medical care. All children with physical, developmental or cognitive disabilities – in California, nearly 1 million – receive at least some services through Medicaid.
Meanwhile, at the U.S. Department of Education, Trump has gutted the Office of Civil Rights, which is among the agencies that enforce the 50-year-old law granting students with disabilities the right to attend school and receive an education appropriate to their needs. Before that law was enacted, students with disabilities often didn’t attend school at all.
“We have a delicate web of services that, combined, support a whole child, a whole family,” said Kristin Wright, executive director of inclusive practices and systems at the Sacramento County Office of Education and the former California state director of special education. “So when the basic foundational structure is upended, like Medicaid, for example, it’s not just one cut from a knife. It’s multiple.”
(putting subforum MAGAs down for being cool with the neediest kids imaginable eating and dying)
DOGE merely tenderized Social Security, Trump is breaking it
Makes sense that otherwise sekrit internal data is tending to leak
https://www.thedailybeast.com/secret...-donald-trump/The federal agency that provides millions of vulnerable Americans with retirement and disability benefits is drowning in up to 6 million pending cases and 12 million transactions after months of turbulence under President Trump.
The Social Security Administration (SSA) started Trump’s second term with what The Washington Post described as a “hostile takeover,” with Elon Musk, 54, and the Department of Government Efficiency slashing their way through the $15.4 billion agency that serves roughly 74 million beneficiaries.
Now, according to internal data and interviews cited by the Post, retirement and disability services for millions of Americans have been delayed.
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/con...iums-set-surgeCongress blocks Obamacare subsidies after shutdown fight, premiums set to surge
Lawmakers fought over Obamacare subsidies tooth and nail for the latter part of the year, and ultimately, neither side won.
Senate Democrats thrust the government into the longest shutdown in history in an effort to refocus the narrative in Congress on healthcare, and Republicans agreed to talk about it in the open. And both Republicans and Democrats got a shot to advance their own, partisan plans. Both failed.
Now, the subsidies are set to expire on Wednesday, sending price hikes across the desks of tens of millions of Americans that relied on the credits.
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More Than Half of ACA Marketplace Enrollees Live in Republican Congressional Districts
Since the enhanced tax credits became available, ACA Marketplace enrollment has soared, more than doubling to 24.3M people since 2020. While nearly all states’ Marketplaces grew since the introduction of the enhanced tax credits, some red states stand out as having a larger share of their population enrolled in ACA Marketplaces.
Nearly six in ten Marketplace enrollees (57%) live in congressional districts represented by a Republican. Generally, enrollment in ACA Marketplace coverage by congressional district is largest in the South. At least 10% of the population is enrolled in ACA Marketplace plans throughout all congressional districts in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina, along with almost all in Texas and Utah.
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https://www.kff.org/quick-take/more-...nal-districts/
Trump and congressional Republicans are wrecking Medicare so rich folks can have tax cuts
https://fortune.com/2026/02/23/how-t...eautiful-bill/Recent policy changes and economic shifts have slashed 12 years off the projected life span of the trust fund that pays for Medicare Part A, according to a newly updated report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The Hospital Insurance (HI) Trust Fund is now slated to be entirely exhausted by 2040, even though the balance generally increases through 2031, as spending will begin to outstrip income in the following year.
impounding Medicaid funds doesn't stop fraud and endangers very vulnerable people
"public health is a scam" is the basic gist of this psyop
executive impoundment is 100% illegal
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/artic...-york-florida/The Trump administration has signaled a willingness to halt billions of dollars in federal health payments to multiple states, mirroring moves they made against Minnesota.
The specific target is Medicaid, the public health insurance program that pairs state and federal money. Federal officials have announced unprecedented actions in Minnesota this year, declaring they could withhold over $2 billion in payments slated for the state and claw back nearly $260 million from last year.The actions in Minnesota came as part of the administration’s declared crackdown on fraud, but critics have likened them to using a bludgeon instead of a scalpel, probably harming patients who rely on Medicaid for care but are not responsible for fraud in the program.
“It’s going to hurt a lot of people if they end up going through with this,” said Sumukha Terakanambi, a 27-year-old who has Duchenne muscular dystrophy and works as a public policy consultant with the Minnesota Council on Disability.
“Of course we support going after fraud,” Terakanambi said, but “this overly aggressive action is missing the point. It’s not punishing fraudsters. It’s punishing the people.”
Longtime Medicaid observers also doubt the federal actions will achieve their purported objective.
Jocelyn Guyer, a senior managing director with the consulting firm Manatt, recently told reporters that actions of this magnitude by the federal government are unprecedented, partly because punitive measures against states have “really never been an effective way to address fraud.”
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