Trump cuts Medicare while Insurance Companies Pay No Taxes, Receive 1.7 Bil refund

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Originally Posted by Voltron

The link is to a letter from the National Association of School Psychologists who are calling attention to the alarming trend of cutting programs for people who need help and cannot provide for themselves.

This country really has little excuse for being as idiotic as this.

"Yes, here is a big tax cut that by and large mostly benefits the wealthiest people. Oops, that had the result of helping jack up the national debt as it so often does. We need to get the debt under control! Time to cut programs that help people who actually need it, including those mentally ill people, of whom a few might be worse off enough that they may loose their treatments and shoot up a place, but hey, who cares, the middle and lower class are a dime a dozen."

I mean, it's no wonder the Dems always have to play the "bad guy" who don't get to hand out tax cuts and sometimes have to increase it, because they're always stuck with fixing the debt; something Repubs suddenly care about again when they aren't in power.


My immediate thought with the cuts to Medicare is what this will mean for my mother, who is on plenty of meds and is a diabetic, and a good chunk of the social security went away when my father died and which has already been decreased for either last year or this (don't recall). It's already hardly enough to try to get by on. And it's not like the Medicare is free. The cost to her better as hell go down if they're going to up and affect seniors with more cuts. (But hey, time to try to right this ship now that Mr. CEO got his fourth yacht with his tax break.)

And being her favorite child to take stress out on, including this kind of stuff... yeah, great, look forward to this.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-c...e-and-medicaid
...the budget would convert Medicaid into a decentralized system administered by the states and financed by federal block grants.

It's a bit concerning that my little state is at the very bottom of the list in the amount of federal dollars it is given -- despite being one of the top contributors (per capita) in the money it hands over -- with the least of it coming back to us via federal dollars, per dollar we give to the government, and a lot of it going to support states that receive more than they contribute in the first place... They better fix this nonsense and let us keep more of the tax dollars generated here for use for our residents, because whatever a block grant is (I assume money that is free to distribute however a state wishes?), I don't really see my state making out any better than it already presently does and no doubt will remain at the bottom. Already scraping the bottom of the barrel here.