Anonymous wrote:Looking at Medicare and Medicaid makes a zillion times more sense than going after something like usaid or science research dollars. I detest trump but Medicare and Medicaid is where we are spending all of our country's money and it is where we need to look to figure out how not to go bankrupt.

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Anonymous wrote:Medicaid reform is one thing I can get behind.

Why can my lazy-azz neighbor, who has Medicaid and no job, get Mounjaro for free without diabetes. Why are we paying for her weight loss?

+1. There are a bunch of families in my community on Medicaid. One was complaining about the glasses covered by Medicaid for their child and how they weren’t stylish enough. I guess it never crossed her mind she could actually work to buy nicer frames.

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Anonymous wrote:17 cents of every dollar spent goes to health care.

17% of GDP is not sustainable.

So how about we look at tax loopholes for the rich? Because the US wastes about 1.8 trillion on those every year. Or what about Elon's own contracts with the US that's worth billions? You don't think there might be any bloating there?

"Tax Loopholes"? LOL

The U.S. doesn't waste anything on that. You're coming from the point of view that everything is owned by the U.S. government. Newsflash - that's not the case.

Elon's money is Elon's money. Same with everyone else. Newsflash - we have private property rights in the U.S. That means you don't just take other people's property when you want stuff*. Got it?


* - this applies whether you make quizillion dollars a year or ten dollars a year. Private Property Rights. Learn it. Embrace it. Love it. It's what makes us America and it's pretty fundamental..

Anonymous wrote:Medicaid reform is one thing I can get behind.

Why can my lazy-azz neighbor, who has Medicaid and no job, get Mounjaro for free without diabetes. Why are we paying for her weight loss?

Anonymous wrote:Medicaid reform is one thing I can get behind.

Why can my lazy-azz neighbor, who has Medicaid and no job, get Mounjaro for free without diabetes. Why are we paying for her weight loss?

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Anonymous wrote:17 cents of every dollar spent goes to health care.

17% of GDP is not sustainable.

So how about we look at tax loopholes for the rich? Because the US wastes about 1.8 trillion on those every year. Or what about Elon's own contracts with the US that's worth billions? You don't think there might be any bloating there?

Anonymous wrote:Looking at Medicare and Medicaid makes a zillion times more sense than going after something like usaid or science research dollars. I detest trump but Medicare and Medicaid is where we are spending all of our country's money and it is where we need to look to figure out how not to go bankrupt.

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Anonymous wrote:You know it's coming. It's a big target. It's a large percentage of the federal budget and it's starving everything else.

American taxpayers footed the bill for at least $1.8 trillion in federal and state health care expenditures in 2022 — about 41% of the nearly $4.5 trillion in both public and private health care spending the U.S. recorded last year, according to the annual report released last week by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

https://www.statnews.com/2023/12/19/us-healthcare-costs-government-covers-41-percent-of-total/

I guess the red states better prepare to pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

California gets more Medicaid funding than the entire state budget of Florida.

Bootstrap that. Zero federal funding to illegal aliens and able bodied people.

What about old people? Make them beg at intersections to cover their doctors' bills?

Old people get Medicare. I said Medicaid.

Anonymous wrote:So glad they will be looking at this. There is no doubt a ton of fraud here.

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Anonymous wrote:The people who know the least about benefits are always ready to make sure they get cut.

Is that surprising? The people using the benefits aren’t the ones paying for them.

Did you know that even if you're not eligible to benefit from a program you can learn about that program. That's what those of us who are program analysts and social workers do as part of our work. You can ask us for information if you want some. Or you could just cut all the programs just out of ignorance.

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Anonymous wrote:The people who know the least about benefits are always ready to make sure they get cut.

Is that surprising? The people using the benefits aren’t the ones paying for them.

Anonymous wrote:The people who know the least about benefits are always ready to make sure they get cut.