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Texas Removes 1.8 Million People From Health Care Plan

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A drop in the proverbial bucket compared to the approaching tsunami of December 2026 when massive Medicaid cuts due to the Trump/GOP "Big Ugly Bill" take effect.

Economists say these Medicaid health insurance cuts may impact 17 million Americans nationwide. Texas and Florida are "right-to-work" states with low union representation and thus fewer labor contracts with mandatory healthcare.
 
All freeloaders, of course.
 
Winning!
 
All freeloaders, of course.
The never of them! Being born into poverty, being needy, unable to get a good job with healthcare benefits, doing whatever jobs they can find. What were they thinking? They could just apply themselves work hard and realize the American Dream? Sorry. That is reserved for rich white privilege.
 
Universal healthcare is for civilized countries like these...



If you think we're civilized, look at Trump, RFKrazy, Hegseth, Bondi, Gabbard, DeFascist, Abbott, Paxton, Habba...
 
Texas kicking the can down the road. This bill will come due one way or another. Probably in the form of ER visits we’ll pay for.
 
Free preventive healthcare would save... Nevermind, I just make myself depressed.
Cutting healthcare is the golden age and makes America rich again. There I did the MAGA shtick for you.
 
I got mine, the hell with you.
You can certainly (and should) be paying for your own health care. As should anyone else.

Personal responsibility goes a long long way. Temporary assistance is available.

Make good choices.
 
You can certainly (and should) be paying for your own health care. As should anyone else.

Personal responsibility goes a long long way. Temporary assistance is available.

Make good choices.
The social responsibility of a great nation goes a lot further than personal responsibility. A nation cannot be considered great when the least of it's population are falling through the cracks in that nation's collective compassion.

The best "good choice" one could make would be to be born into a rich white family in today's cold insensitive conservative USA.

It is not possible to work a low wage full time job and pay for rent, food, needed life expenses AND health care.

Health care is for the rich in America. Conservatives want the poor to work and then die if they get sick. After all. They are replaceable. Plenty more where they came from with no abortions allowed for the poor who cannot travel for an abortion like the rich can.
 
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According to your article, this is just an unwinding of Medicare expansion that occurred during Covid. Covid is over
 
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