Data doesn't lie. I know that the right is allergic to facts, but facts are facts. 43% of Medicaid recipients are white, non-Hispanic. https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/data-and-systems/downloads/macbis/2020-race-etncity-data-brf.pdf 43% of the 96 million on Medicaid are white, non-Hispanic. Math it out. Even Steve Bannon was sounding the alarm about Medicaid + MAGA months ago. In an episode of his podcast he said: "Medicaid, you gotta be careful. Because a lot of MAGAs are on Medicaid, I'm telling you. If you don't think so, you are dead wrong." https://www.newsweek.com/maga-medicaid-which-states-have-highest-beneficiaries-2033077 The article even states that Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, and Arkansas have more than 25% of their population on Medicaid. And they are all MAGA states who voted for Trump. Here's a map that shows the FMAP (federal medical assistance percentage), which is calculated by using the per-capita income for each state relative to the national average. https://www.newsweek.com/medicaid-map-federal-funding-each-us-state-2041109 Out of the 7 states that receive the most government support from Medicaid, 6 are red states that voted for Trump: KY, AL, SC, AR, WV, MS (and NM is the 7th state who voted Harris). The states the receive the least support from Medicaid are WA, CA, CO, CT, WY, NJ, MD, MA, NH, and NY. Out of those, only WY voted for Trump and all others were blue for Harris. |
WSJ even had an article saying this was hitting the base. It said the two parties base has flip flopped, and the elected MAGA in Congress was stupid to do that. Oh well. |
I don’t want to see any red state refugees flooding the blue state borders. |
Yes, they are. Data says yes. And so does my experience in a red state hospital billing department |
Yep. You didn’t bother to check any actual data before you said that, did you? |
Yep. Medicaid users were more likely to pick Trump over Kamala. https://pro.morningconsult.com/analysis/2024-vote-medicaid-recipients-trump-harris And now a WSJ story on how the politics of Medicaid are making this bill harder for Republican. |
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Funny how MAGA doesn't believe they use government programs. |
No friggin wonder nearly 20% of our economy is health care. Time to blow it up.
I don't care what state, party, or demographic you want to cite. Get rid of it before it bankrupts us. |
Can’t fix stupid. |
Watch medicaid and welfare require work and people suddenly are not poor or sick anymore |
it failing
I CAN'T BELEIVE I AM DRINKING TO CSAPN ON THE 2ND OF JUYL |
Unless one (or two) of the Nos flips tonight, the vote on the rule fails.
Then what? Come up with a BBB v2 and try again? Go with separate bills, as Congress usually does? Just stick with CRs for the next 3 years? |