Healthcare Issues

[GoCubsGo]

They swore for months that Medicaid was not going to be cut. We called them out on their lies, a drama played out in small scale right here on BRD. Now, they've turned on a dime to claim that the massive, unprecedented cuts are no big deal.

GOP Senator On Fears Medicaid Cuts Will Lead To Deaths: ‘We All Are Going To Die’
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) dismissed concerns that planned Republican cuts to health care for vulnerable Americans will lead to people dying.

Too true and doubling down.

[Vrede too]

They swore for months that Medicaid was not going to be cut. We called them out on their lies, a drama played out in small scale right here on BRD. Now, they've turned on a dime to claim that the massive, unprecedented cuts are no big deal.

Too true and doubling down.

https://bsky.app/profile/salena.bsky.so ... izrrye222x

WTF is wrong with these people? Leaving aside the partisan perspective, her naked disdain for her constituents is atrocious. The 2026 opposition ads write themselves.

[GoCubsGo]

They swore for months that Medicaid was not going to be cut. We called them out on their lies, a drama played out in small scale right here on BRD. Now, they've turned on a dime to claim that the massive, unprecedented cuts are no big deal.

Too true and doubling down.

https://bsky.app/profile/salena.bsky.so ... izrrye222x

WTF is wrong with these people? Leaving aside the partisan perspective, her naked disdain for her constituents is atrocious. The 2026 opposition ads write themselves.

Trumpaloons have short and selective memories. 2024 is proof of that.

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Healthcare issues

[Vrede too]

Trumpaloons have short and selective memories. 2024 is proof of that.

Good thing we have judges fish-slapping their poor memories.

Judge rules some NIH grant cuts illegal, saying he's never seen such discrimination in 40 years

A federal judge ruled Monday it was illegal for the Trump administration to cancel several hundred research grants, adding that the cuts raise serious questions about racial discrimination.

U.S. District Judge William Young in Massachusetts said the administration's process was “arbitrary and capricious” and that it did not follow long-held government rules and standards when it abruptly canceled grants deemed to focus on gender identity or diversity, equity and inclusion.

In a hearing Monday on two cases calling for the grants to be restored, the judge pushed government lawyers to offer a formal definition of DEI, questioning how grants could be canceled for that reason when some were designed to study health disparities as Congress had directed.

Opps.

Young, an appointee of Republican President Ronald Reagan, went on to address what he called “a darker aspect” to the cases, calling it “palpably clear” that what was behind the government actions was “racial discrimination and discrimination against America's LGBTQ community.”

After 40 years on the bench, “I've never seen government racial discrimination like this,” Young added. He ended Monday's hearing saying, “Have we no shame.” ...

[Vrede too]

As currently written the BB Bill will knock 4M off ACA coverage.

[GoCubsGo]

As currently written the BB Bill will knock 4M off ACA coverage.

Why do Republicans hate the American people?

[Vrede too]

As currently written the BB Bill will knock 4M off ACA coverage.

Why do Republicans hate the American people?

Because they love the rich? It's even worse with a Cult Leader who agrees with them:

Trump administration makes sweeping changes to ObamaCare, ends ‘Dreamer’ coverage