Yeah, they’re missing out on so much. An absurdly expensive and byzantine health care system that delivers measurably worse outcomes. A system of units of measurement used nowhere else on the planet. A near total absence of Tim Hortons.
I simply don’t understand why they can’t see the light.
The con is in the word “eligible.” Further on down his remarks, he discusses how he’s changing eligibility criteria. But people pick out the bits they want to hear and all the rest is the fine print.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but that 2010 health bill is the ACA and those states that have expanded Medicaid were primarily blue states.
Excellent headline. Its so refreshing to see the truth of the matter because many in the public beyond those of us as TPM regulars will not go beyond the headlines these days. Those that don’t have accounts or a membership here also can see it even if they can’t read the article without some other way in.
Yes, but the ACA is expanded Medicaid that has been accepted in 41 states. Not all States accepted that expansion and others had trigger mechanisms if ACA funded expanded Medicaid plans couldn’t cover up to a certain amount to pay a hospital let’s say. This is for all Medicaid that States get to help pay for low income folks who need hospital care, nursing home care, etc. You don’t have to have the ACA in your state to have a state provide this for the poor if they apply seperately for the help.
Exactly! My hatred for republicans grows with each passing day, and there doesn’t seem to be a limit to how much I can hate them. I’ve voted across party lines in the past (mostly state level), but never again!
If the federal government caps the amount it will contribute to state Medicaid, the states will not be able to make up the difference since they, unlike the federal government, cannot engage in deficit spending. The most vulnerable will become more vulnerable again.
Don’t disagree in the least. And since the States can’t use deficit spending, the spending won’t happen or other services will have to be cut. Either way the States look like the bad guys. *&^%$#!
The kids. Makes one wonder why even long before now the other Western Democracies believe we don’t really like our kids.
Point taken, but certainly in the blue states that’s not going to play out that way. You can see it right now. This is way, way too big in its totality for Trump and the Sycophant Republicans to escape. Betcha this will be true in a number of red states.
We also need to hold the traditional media’s feet to the fire here.
Those getting screwed the worst are once again, those who voted fror it. Brilliant, simply brilliant. These 20 Congressional Districts Would See Massive Health Insurance Premium Increases Under Congressional Republicans’ Health Care Plans - Center for American Progress Action
Wait, but… Trump did say that Medicaid wouldn’t be touched. https://x.com/reesejgorman/status/1892053065726869710
Josh said today, “Trump has pledged again and again that he’d never cut Social Security and Medicare. Whether you can put stock in those promises you’ll have to decide. But it is something he’s said again and again going back to the first campaign. Medicaid is an entirely new addition” and I don’t think that’s true.
At the start of the 1958 film “The Young Lions”, concerned Bavarian ski instructor Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) asks sheltered, but hot to trot, ski pupil Margaret Freemantle (Barbara Rush) why she’s suddenly bummed out by the Heil Hitlers at the 1938 New Year party?
What’s the matter?
You know, I was just in Berlin and I saw some Nazi demonstrations. But I didn’t realize it had gone this far. Now it’s already here in this little town. It’s a little frightening.
OK, thanks, Josh! A Semi-Correction - TPM – Talking Points Memo
