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The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism | Unable to defend their health-care cuts on the merits, congressional Republicans have pivoted to magical thinking.

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The GOP’s New Medicaid Denialism

We project that implementation of the retractions outlined in the reconciliation bill would result in more than 42,500 deaths annually

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Medicade is a piece of load-bearing social infrastructure that most Americans - who are not on Medicade and barely understand the difference between Medicare and Medicade - are blissfully unaware of it's ramifications for the entire healthcare system.
Put another way: The only reason we don't have hordes of people in the streets demanding universal healthcare - is because the poor have Medicade, so it's in their best-interests to behave.
- There was another article that said 1 out 4 Americans have a disability. I couldn't find a source to back that up. That is a shit ton of people.
  Why we have a government and taxes:
  To take care of the least among us
  To make sure that people aren't being taken advantage of; robbed, killed, manipulated, etc.
  Why the Republicans think we have a government and taxes right now:
  So they can have more money
  To be racist af and keep anyone that isn't white, out of the country.
  To make everyone a christian
- Is Medicade diluted healthcare mixed with water and a sweetener?
  
  Medicade is a single-payer healthcare program that is almost entirely for the poor. (eg: People that insurance companies can't squeeze money out of.)
  Without Medicade most hospitals will go bankrupt - and what few social services & charities there are for the poor will be absolutely swamped to the point where they will be ineffective.
  Moreover: Medicade prevents medical bills from forcing the poor from choosing between a rent & food and medication they need to live. So if Medicade gets gutted, the US homeless population is going to blow up.
When haven’t post Nixon Republicans relied on magical thinking? In 2017 they were making shit up like Kellyanne Conway’s Bowling Green Massacre. Proto Trump Sarah Palin whined about government death panels which are kinda coming to fruition but from their own fucking party. FEMA Death Camps is an ongoing fear tactic to kill public trust in government led disaster relief. Newt Gingrich era Republicans constantly talked about Seth Rich and the Clinton Body Count. Their only tactic is to obfuscate any consensus reality. They get to make up their own while getting disengaged voters to lose even more trust in the system. Deepfakes and unregulated AI is only going to make it all worse. It’s a shit feedback loop created by the most cynical, opportunistic fuckheads who offer nothing and prey on our worst impulses.
- "They're eating the dogs, they're eating the cats"
  
  "They're giving transgender surgeries to illegal immigrants in prison."
Meanwhile the president is saying that the former president has been replaced by a clone. Isn't there some sort of protocol for when the government is out of touch with reality?
- The 25th amendment might help if half the cabinet wasn't on drugs
- That would be true if people posting here were representative. They're not. Most people dont follow the news, and gerrymandered districts mean it'll take a lot to change things.
- A lot of voters just brainlessly vote with their party
Magical thinking is something that appeals to their home schooled, fetal alcohol syndrome ridden, red hat wearing voter base.
JUST. SAY. LIES.

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