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I’m a registered Republican who just watched her party spend much of the summer pushing through new cuts to Medicaid. I’m also here to tell you why I’m an unlikely supporter of the program. My son’s life depends on government assistance. Recent cuts to Medicaid at both the federal and state levels mean millions of families like mine could soon be at a loss for how to care for our disabled loved ones.
In February 2021, during a routine ultrasound appointment when I was 17 weeks pregnant with my third child, David, doctors discovered that he had a set of life-threatening fetal anomalies. Our boy had an excruciatingly rare midline cleft lip and palate and was missing critical portions of his brain. We were told he fit the profile for a baby that had trisomy 18 and trisomy 13, or a disorder called holoprosencephaly, when the brain fails to divide appropriately into separate hemispheres. The first days after David’s diagnosis were otherworldly. Each subsequent day of my pregnancy was a nightmare. I became a person in pain.
Expecting David to be stillborn, we were amazed when he was born at term. {continues}
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Sums it up nicely. She sees it. She's an "unlikely" supporter because she is a righty and righties oppose tax dollars helping people in need. But this time *SHE* and *HER SON* are the people in need. So now she's all for it.
Being a righty, she refuses to follow this where it leads: what about all the other programs that other people desperately need? Don't they count? No, of course not. They're not this particular "registered Republican conservative", so **** 'em.
That she's proud of. But don't take the Medicaid that she needs... that's different...
A truly aborrent ideology.
(Extra credit: and I bet if you got her talking about abortion and her son, she'd wax self-righteous about how she served God's will by refusing to abort a fetus that has now turned into a severely permanently damaged individual for whom "quality of life" will be a forever out of reach concept.
That's another thing that disgusts me with the bulk of the right. Basking in sanctimony for having inflicted needless suffering on another creature in the name of one's supposed "values", which somehow only ever apply to and bind others)
In February 2021, during a routine ultrasound appointment when I was 17 weeks pregnant with my third child, David, doctors discovered that he had a set of life-threatening fetal anomalies. Our boy had an excruciatingly rare midline cleft lip and palate and was missing critical portions of his brain. We were told he fit the profile for a baby that had trisomy 18 and trisomy 13, or a disorder called holoprosencephaly, when the brain fails to divide appropriately into separate hemispheres. The first days after David’s diagnosis were otherworldly. Each subsequent day of my pregnancy was a nightmare. I became a person in pain.
Expecting David to be stillborn, we were amazed when he was born at term. {continues}
Opinion | I’m a Conservative. My Disabled Son Needs Medicaid to Live.
The uncertainty around the future of Medicaid is paralyzing for families like mine.
Sums it up nicely. She sees it. She's an "unlikely" supporter because she is a righty and righties oppose tax dollars helping people in need. But this time *SHE* and *HER SON* are the people in need. So now she's all for it.
Being a righty, she refuses to follow this where it leads: what about all the other programs that other people desperately need? Don't they count? No, of course not. They're not this particular "registered Republican conservative", so **** 'em.
That she's proud of. But don't take the Medicaid that she needs... that's different...
A truly aborrent ideology.
(Extra credit: and I bet if you got her talking about abortion and her son, she'd wax self-righteous about how she served God's will by refusing to abort a fetus that has now turned into a severely permanently damaged individual for whom "quality of life" will be a forever out of reach concept.
That's another thing that disgusts me with the bulk of the right. Basking in sanctimony for having inflicted needless suffering on another creature in the name of one's supposed "values", which somehow only ever apply to and bind others)
