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The Barbarian said:

Like the only hospital in a rural area of Nebraska, now closing due to cuts in Medicaid. Stuff like that. That one won't just impact people on Medicaid; it will affect everyone in that area needing medical care.

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Republicans in Congress pushed through the largest Medicaid cuts in history, a move advocates say will inevitably shrink services for people with disabilities across the nation.

The U.S. House of Representatives narrowly voted to approve almost $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid just before the Fourth of July holiday as part of a sweeping bill designed to make good on many of President Donald Trump’s domestic priorities. A similar scenario played out in the Senate just days prior.

No Democrats in either chamber voted for the measure, which President Donald Trump is expected to swiftly sign into law.

Congress Approves Nearly $1 Trillion In Cuts To Medicaid Threatening Disability Services

Republicans in Congress pushed through the largest Medicaid cuts in history, a move advocates say will inevitably shrink services for people with disabilities across the nation.

www.disabilityscoop.com

You think the hospital just closed for the fun of it, depriving the people of that county access to medical care? I don't think you're lying, but you need to pay attention to what the republican's own CBO is saying. Apparently, Trump's own advisors were telling him that Medicaid would not be cut, after which at least one republican congressman informed him that it was being cut. He's being isolated from the process now. They know he won't read it before signing it.

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The article is another opinion piece. Its nor based on facts. The clinic closed before the bill was even out into effect. Thats how close they were to shutting down in the first place. I bet they were on their way out anyway and this was a convinient excuse. Because there were no cuts to Medicaid.

rjs330 said:

The article is another opinion piece. Its nor based on facts.

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Fact is, the hospital administration realized that they could not survive the Medicaid cuts and announced the closure.

rjs330 said:

The clinic closed before the bill was even out into effect.

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Yeah, there's going to be more of that. It's not magic. If the money isn't there to provide the services, the facility closes. There will be more of that. The irony is, it will hit areas where Trump had the most support. For Trump, loyalty is one way only.

Rural hospitals brace for financial hits or even closure under Republicans’ $1 trillion Medicaid cut​

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Tyler Sherman, a nurse at a rural Nebraska hospital, is used to the area’s aging farmers delaying care until they end up in his emergency room.

Now, with Congress planning around $1 trillion in Medicaid cuts over 10 years, he fears those farmers and the more than 3,000 residents of Webster County could lose not just the ER, but also the clinic and nursing home tied to the hospital.

“Our budget is pretty heavily reliant on the Medicaid reimbursement, so if we do see a cut of that, it’ll be difficult to keep the doors open,” said Sherman, who works at Webster County Community Hospital in the small Nebraska town of Red Cloud just north of the Kansas border.

If those facilities close, many locals would see their five-minute trip to Webster County hospital turn into a nearly hour-long ride to the nearest hospital offering the same services.

“That’s a long way for an emergency,” Sherman said. “Some won’t make it.”

https://apnews.com/article/medicaid-tax-cuts-rural-hospitals-nebraska-kentucky-cf6bb787fc6a4d387c55d90051ff2f1f

Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) pushed back against constituents who shouted out at her recent town hall meeting that cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) would cause people to die, responding, “Well, we’re all going to die.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5325678-joni-ernst-responds-medicaid-cuts-well-were-all-going-to-die/

The Barbarian said:

But it does do permanent damage to society.

Malnourished children had poorer cognition at both ages. Deficits were stable across time, applied to all sex and ethnic groups, and remained after controlling for multiple measures of psychosocial adversity. Children with 3 indicators of malnutrition had a 15.3-point deficit in IQ at age 11 years.

Malnutrition at Age 3 Years and Lower Cognitive Ability at Age 11 Years: Independence From Psychosocial Adversity - PMC

Early malnutrition is linked to poor cognition, but long-term effects have not been extensively examined and psychosocial confounds have not always been controlled. To test the hypothesis that malnutrition at age 3 years will be associated with ...

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Less likely to hold jobs, more likely to commit crimes. Huge cost to society.

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It doesn't do as much damage to society as killing millions of children who would benefit society in untold ways.

There is literally no reason we should have malnourished kids in the US with ALL the help we are giving families. There is something else going in and its not due to lack of funding or programs. Federal funding and state funding combined provides so much money and services that poor households have things unheard of in other places. Big screen tvs cell phones, streaming services, internet etc. I gave a list of things the "poor" have in America and that was in 2010.

In 2020:

Government spends over $220 billion on cash, food, and housing aid for low-income families with children. This is two and a half times the amount needed to eliminate all child poverty in the nation.

In 2020 If a single mother with two kids works a job at the federal minimum wage her income was about 14 grand. Then with government assistance from federal and state increases her total help benefits to about 47 grand.

I doubt it is radically different than today. There isnt any reason that we have malnourished children because we don't help enough.

We help a LOT in this country. So much so that 40% of the "poor" can have two vehicles.

NxNW said:

Yet.

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Oh good grief. In the county where I live a great many people live more than 40 or more miles from a hospital. And its been that way LONG before the Big Beautiful Bill.

rjs330 said:

It doesn't do as much damage to society as killing millions of children who would benefit society in untold ways.

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It's true that starving them is less criminal than killing them. But the cost to society to have millions of damaged people, who might have benefited society in untold ways, is much higher than if they just didn't exist.