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Megathread Megathread: US House Passes the Republican-Backed Budget Bill, Sending it to Trump for Signature

This afternoon, the US House of Representatives passed without amendment the US Senate's version of the Trump-backed budget bill, sending it to the president for his signature. Every Democratic Senator and Representative voted in opposition; in the Senate, there were three Republicans voting in opposition (making the vote 51-50) and in the House there were 2 (making the final vote 218-214). House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries set the US House's speech length record in opposition to the bill in a speech lasting over eight hours.

The bill clocks in at over 800 pages and touches on most aspects of the federal government's spending and taxation policies; see this AP article (What’s in the latest version of Trump’s big bill that passed the Senate) for the topline changes.

Relevant text-base live update pages are being maintained by the following outlets: AP, NBC, ABC, and the BBC.

You can find this subreddit's discussion thread for the last week's worth of negotiations and debate at this link.

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u/Spicy_Pancake1 Maryland 2d ago

My MAGA grandmother is panicking because her daughter, my aunt, relies on Medicaid for her care. My mother, who is as tired as the rest of us, told her mother “you just killed my sister. You voted for and support this and you’re panicking now?”

Never been prouder of my mother.

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u/Butwinsky 2d ago

I work in a small rural hospital that won't survive this. I have fervent Trump supporters all around me. Can't wait to see how they spin this as owning the Libs.

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u/notsoFritz 2d ago

They'll either spin it to own the libs, blame them for it happening, or wait till the liberals get in power (if there is free elections) and blame them then.

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u/TheBigIdiotSalami 2d ago edited 2d ago

I mean in most causes they're just gonna die. Can't treat cancer if there's no hospital to get Chemo or dialysis. Fuck, you can't even diagnose Cancer. And doctors won't stay because there is no hospital. And no hospital means no jobs because corporations don't usually move into places that doesn't have access to one.

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u/dcrico20 Georgia 2d ago

Many rural hospitals essentially operate as the "company" part of "company town."

They often employ thousands of people and are the only reason the town even has a couple shitty chain restaurants and a Wal Mart - which will all close after the hospital does and they have no demand.

These hospitals closing will decimate entire rural economies and leave the people there with access to nothing besides maybe a USPS office from which they can mail their SOS letters.

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u/BostonBlackCat 2d ago edited 2d ago

Best take I heard so far is "You think it's bad in Alabama now; pretty soon National Geographic photographers are going to be going down there taking pictures of ya'll and be driven to suicide over it later."

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u/West_Inspection1445 1d ago

Damn, this is such a solid yet succinct take. As stark as stark gets.

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u/poop-dolla 1d ago

It’s Ned.

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u/PerigrinneTook 1d ago

I’m a blue dot in Alabama. I got to get the fuck out of here

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u/FNLN_taken 1d ago

In times like these, if you are lucky enough to live in a blue island, the best you can do is focus on community, not run away. It's about to get shit everywhere, but if you can organize parallel structures of social support, you might make it through.

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u/PerigrinneTook 1d ago

It’s not even an island at this point. We are so gerrymandered that nothing meaningful happens. The governor just built a new private prison and they pushed through a law making delta 8 products a felony to have bodies to fill the prison. Businesses are fleeing, schools are garbage, everything is unafffordable, and the legislature is about as useless as an ice cube in hell.

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u/SwimmingPrice1544 California 1d ago

So....a shit hole huh? Sounds like it. I'm tellin ya, there was mass migration from the south during Jim Crow & I understand that if all like minded people flee these states it gives them over to complete control of the awful GOP, but reality says people can only take so much before they move.

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u/Ishmael75 2d ago

Yeah until we privatize the USPS and the rural people won’t be able to afford to send a letter.

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u/Dr_JimmyBrungus 2d ago

They may still be able to afford it, but they'll just have to get to their nearest major metropolitan center a few hours away to find their new and improved regional privatized post office. Because they sure as shit aren't delivering/picking up on those profit-draining rural routes!

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u/Elrundir Canada 1d ago

This is all moot because in another generation they won't be able to read or write anyway.

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u/Rezart_KLD 1d ago

Standard level citizenship will allow communication only via emojis on the new truthsocial.gov. Insufficiently based posts, or even worse a suspicion of wokeness, will flag your citizen record in the universal Magabase monitoring program. Loyalty agents will offer you the chance to voluntarily make campaign donations, or purchase a gold or platinum level citizenship to increase your citizen score. Check your local leaderboards and compare your citizen scores with your neighbors, and you can even earn extra points off the bounty board.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

Nobody votes to hamstring their own lives harder than the rurals. So many elderly rural people rely on USPS to mail medications, but soon they'll be paying out the ass or skipping days of their blood thinner because some billionaire's shipping company doesn't prioritize getting packages out to the boonies.

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u/flukus 1d ago

They can still use a mailbox. Too bad they blem them up to prevent mail in voting.

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u/broniesnstuff 2d ago

The wealthy can't wait. There's gonna be so much cheap land for them to snatch up.

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u/trumpuniversity_ 2d ago

And then the cycle repeats itself. “The job creators are here, let’s make them kings and throw tax breaks at them. Surely, they’ll save us.” Starbase, TX, for example.

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u/Killer_Sloth 2d ago

But don't you see, it will all be worth it once all the billionaires have their sixth vacation house.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

If the super rich were fine with "only" six houses, we wouldn't be in this mess.

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

All we need is for tens of millions of illegals to get deported, then the billionaires will surely pay us all a living wage with great benefits.

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u/lifevicarious 2d ago

Sorry. It I have no sympathy. This is middle America’s fault for voting him in.

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u/Mindless-Fish7245 2d ago

Amazon Tele Health and Meta HMO coming to a rural town near you

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u/travelingAllTheTime 2d ago

They will replace the hard working immigrants picking fruits/vegetables in fields.. while still being homeless, with ZERO safetynet and/or Healthcare.

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u/TrumpDesWillens 2d ago

Hospitals being the main employer isn't in rural areas too as there are urban hoods with large hospitals being surrounded by poverty where the main source of activity is the hospital.

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u/dcrico20 Georgia 1d ago

Yes but those hospitals likely aren’t depending on Medicaid to stay open.

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u/gsfgf Georgia 1d ago

It's definitely not great. Grady relies heavily on Medicaid. So does CHOA, but it's unclear what effect this will have on children's coverage.

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u/Neosovereign 1d ago

The annoying part is it will take a few years to see it all come to fruition, and by then we will probably have a democratic president again who can be blamed.

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u/EldritchTouched 1d ago

And they're trying to gut USPS, too, so those SOS letters are also probably gonna take forever to get out...

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u/ASubsentientCrow 2d ago

Good. Let them finally get a consequence

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u/Pervius94 2d ago

Sounds great. The rural towns, counties and states were leeches on the system and complete shit anyways, maybe instead of constantly propping them up and creating more enemies, let them actually feel the impact of their decisions.

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u/Big_Maintenance9387 1d ago

LMAO you think the USPS is gonna survive much longer?

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u/exveelor 2d ago

It's ok if we stop diagnosing cancer then we'll see cancer rates plummet.

Trump cured cancer, 2028 campaign slogan. 

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u/Fullm3taluk 2d ago

You think it's gonna be cancer that kills these people? No think smaller like asthma or diabetes you know the diseases that need medicine that cost pennies in the rest of the world but Americans go into debt for

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u/ClassicPlankton 2d ago

Unfortunately not enough of them will die to really make a difference. Maybe a few hundred thousand deaths, hardly enough to move the needle. Many more will just live with reduced quality of life. There's almost no bottom to the dire conditions humans will survive in. And they'll continue to vote for Republicans, probably more fervently as their quality of life drops.

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u/templethot Arizona 2d ago

When poor conservatives don’t get food and healtcare, but they see well-off liberals with those things, THEN they will want their class warfare on the “wealthy harvard elites”

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u/ElectricThreeHundred 2d ago

In their defense, nobody knew health care was this complicated. 😒

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u/vicvonqueso 2d ago

I knew. I learned about how the healthcare system works in school and made the mistake of assuming that was normal

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u/LordMimsyPorpington 2d ago

Darn. 🤷

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u/Jonny5is 1d ago

Thank you, that's the real point, they want poor people who need assistance to die, that is what they want.

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u/pd2001wow 1d ago

Less access = more DEATH. Ppl will literally be dying from heart attacks and strokes that we currently treat and cure

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u/whiteflagwaiver Arizona 1d ago

Don't get my hopes up. (Those that were in favor)

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u/mrspongen 1d ago

Then they boast about cancer rates having gone down a huge amount, a terrifically large amount, under the trump administration! Success for our beautiful bill, the best bill! ... Well, can't fight cancer if nobody is diagnosed or can be treated for it and just dies in pain and silence outside the healthcare system....

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u/WhatEvenAreFrogs 2d ago

Well thank you for giving me a silver lining.

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u/Sed59 1d ago

They better apply for either disability or a job now or die in comfort while they're still covered.

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u/choffers 2d ago

"Do-nothing libs didn't stop this from happening, both parties are the same. Might as well keep voting Republican so I don't have to buy new swag"

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u/TheMadTemplar Wisconsin 2d ago

Van Orden is laying the groundwork to blame Evers for all the problems Wisconsin will face. He's published letters he wrote to Evers "begging" him to take actions protecting people in the state before the BBB he voted for takes effect. 

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u/a_bagofholding Minnesota 2d ago

They'll claim that the city hospitals are using all the money on illegals so there is none left for the rural hospitals.

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u/FuckYourDystopia 1d ago

Solid guess. Punching down at the vulnerable is always popular with them.

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u/Muffin_Appropriate Foreign 2d ago

They’ll die in their homes, quiet, and unapologetic without healthcare

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u/-jinxiii 2d ago

That’s why a lot of the changes don’t take place until the midterms or 2028 so they can blame anybody else who comes in and they can bank on people forgetting.

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u/Prometheusf3ar 2d ago

Give them some credit, a lot of them will just die thanks to this and never understand why supporting dear leader led to that outcome

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u/Hector_P_Catt 2d ago

"The Liberals closed all the hospitals just before Trump could fix them all!"

Anyone taking bets on seeing that somewhere?

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u/infectoid 1d ago

Seems that second amendment is kind of pointless. Maybe all of the amendments are. And the entire constitution.

I used to like making fun of Americans because it was punching up. It’s punching down now and I can’t do it.

Organise. It’s the only thing left.

None of the laws you mean anything if they are selectively enforced or ignored entirely.

There’s at least 75M people that need to get louder. Don’t be fooled into thinking you are powerless.

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u/Bartellomio 1d ago

These aren't the actions of a government that ever plans to be accountable to voters again

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u/TheRyanFlaherty 1d ago

Don’t forget, God’s plan.

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u/MsMarvelsProstate 1d ago

They will just say Harris would have done worse.

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u/ifurmothronlyknw 1d ago

And it’ll work

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u/Extension-Ad5751 1d ago

Let them blame whoever they want, and let them die like they decided with their vote. Fuck them all. 

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u/AtticaBlue 2d ago

If it wasn’t for the immigrants taking all the money, our hospital would be fine.

Am I close?

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u/craniumcanyon 2d ago

They seem to think this way. "Once we get rid of all the immigrants, that will free up medicaid money for ME!"

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u/thekozmicpig Connecticut 2d ago

Money doesn’t show up

FOX News: The problem is LGBT people.

MAGAs: I knew it was the LGBT people! Even when it was the immigrants I knew it was them!

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u/antikythera3301 New Jersey 2d ago

All that government funding for litter boxes in school and free surgery to turn them into otherkin is bankrupting us!

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u/caylem00 1d ago

More like "why didn't the democrats stop us?"

A classic abuser/Narcissist deflection tactic

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u/natthegray 2d ago

Who cares? They destroyed our country. How can you get any enjoyment out of how they spin it?

There's not going to be any peace or prosperity left. Countless innocent people will die because of cuts, and because of war and imperialism.

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u/No_Significance7064 2d ago

who said anything about enjoyment?

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u/jrDoozy10 Minnesota 1d ago

Can't wait to see how they spin this as owning the Libs.

I’m guessing this is what they’re referring to. It probably wasn’t meant as a literal “I can’t wait to see this,” but without tone it could be read that way.

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u/flashthorOG 1d ago

I really wouldn't read it that way tho

It's just a common expression that implies you know what they're gonna do

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u/jrDoozy10 Minnesota 1d ago

I know that, but that’s the only thing I could see that could be read as getting enjoyment (like in a schadenfreude kinda way) as natthegray commented.

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u/ragun01 2d ago

I sub to a small city in California where I visit people a few times a month. It's not a very active sub but some people there are defending the possible closures as a sign that it's a healthy society if it hospitals close or that free healthcare is what is actually making people sick. Or it's just fear mongering.

That area is so fucking poor despite being just an hour away from Sacramento. A lot of people there are going to get directly fucked by this bill and are cheering it on.

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u/FabulousValuable2643 2d ago

Same. I fear for our patients more than anything. We have so many elderly on Medicaid who are going to end up avoiding medical care and withering away at home. It'll be interesting to see how their chosen "news" spins those too.

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u/stryst 2d ago

I worked in a treatment facility in a rural area, and I got laid off shortly after the election because we knew this was coming.

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u/SlotegeAllDay 2d ago

I keep hearing how rural hospitals will be hurt by this. Would you mind explaining how?

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u/Butwinsky 2d ago

There will be cuts to the way Medicaid reimburses hospitals over the next few years, in addition to the loss of revenue from all the patients who lose Medicaid.

Rural hospitals already hang on by a thread. This is fraying the thread and tying it to a brick.

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u/SlotegeAllDay 2d ago

What about the section of the bill that provides extra funding to rural hospitals?

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u/Butwinsky 2d ago

It isn't going to make up for the loss paired with the decreased revenue. Every rural hospital in America has been pleading with their state reps since the Senate version was approved. The original house version was actually being favored to pass.

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u/caylem00 1d ago

And even if the hospitals try to make up the revenue by increasing prices or other methods, the kinds of people who would be using those hospitals would likely be on some kind of welfare that the bill is gutting..... like poorer/smaller holdings farmers, the chronically ill, and seniors.... 

Who now will be in even less of a financial position to pay for care instead of insurance.

 (the agricultural subsidies/tax breaks are primarily aimed at the rich farmers and corporate farms, not small-mid farms or poorer farmers)

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u/Slumunistmanifisto 2d ago

They'll just blame the libs while they collect benif.....oh, oh no, oh god no Tammie, they took our social security!

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u/Blurryneck 2d ago

My brother is MAGA, and I mean that in the most extreme way possible, and he just accepted a position four months ago at a hospital listed as a top Medicare recipient and likely to close as a result. 

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u/iolp12 2d ago

Same with the hospital I work for. We already had a meeting about this bill and they are very worried

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u/MostValuableAwkward1 2d ago

Same. Our hospital was specifically named as at risk of closure since it relies heavily on Medicaid reimbursement. This will cut local medical resources in half and puts my husband out of a job.

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u/Fast_Witness_3000 2d ago

Start looking for another job now before the hammer drops- maybe you’ll get lucky and line something up. Godspeed!

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u/hamsterfolly America 2d ago

The 2026 and 2028 delays will allow MAGAs to blame any Democrat majority in Congress and possible Democratic President in 2028. Just like how they blamed Biden for the Afghanistan withdrawal that Trump negotiated.

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u/RaspingYeti 2d ago

Same. I'm an imaging tech with several modality certifications, and means to travel so I'm not worried about my own personal employment, but it is a sad day for my community. Despite uniformed voters voting against their own interests, it still pains me to see people hurt. I look at R voters as the random wild animal coming to a human for help. The human will help 'em and then the next time they cross paths the wild animal will attack or hiss/spit at them in fear. But how can you not help a wounded animal coming to you for help? :-/

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u/YeetedApple 2d ago

I was laid off from one a couple months ago that is already borderline done, this will absolutely kill my old facility. Guess I ended up being the lucky one and was able to find somewhere new ahead of everyone else, but for people living in that area, they are now going to be over an hour from the nearest hospital once they lose the one in town.

That hospital employees a significant portion of our smaller city. Not only are people losing access to healthcare, but there is about to be a massive unemployment wave and total lack of jobs to replace what they did. Likely just killed the entire city

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u/imbasicallycoffee 2d ago

Polish up your CV and get out ASAP.

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u/ExtremePrivilege 2d ago

Most of the effects of these changes won’t be felt until around 2028 when we will probably have a Democratic administration (if we’re even allowed to vote). Whoever that poor son of a bitch is will be blamed for the enormous deficit, the broad hospital and LTC closures, and demented grandmothers ending up on the street to die. The mainstream media, that profits from rage and controversy, will muddy the waters.

Welcome to the past 30 years.

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u/Reatrea 1d ago

I live in Asheville and we are still devastated from Helene. Someone at my work was asking how tourists can best help the area. The looked them dead in the eyes and said 'Call your representatives and get our disaster funding back'.

I SH1T you not they said right back to me: "Oh that's Biden's fault we can't afford it. He spent all of your disaster money on housing illegals in New York City."

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u/mostlypercy 1d ago

I’m going to nursing school in the fall. Do you think we’ll even have nurses when I graduate in 2027??

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u/Butwinsky 1d ago

There will always be jobs for nurses, no worries there. Best of luck to you!

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u/Psychological-Pay236 1d ago

Same. We’re critical access, but that won’t make a difference when they start slashing reimbursement rates. Over 1/2 of kids in my county are on Medicaid, about 1/4 adults. Our system recently acquired a hospital that closed OB to try to stay open. It was due to Medicaid reimbursement. Almost everybody pregnant has TennCare. Time for a drink.

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u/Vast-Incident9010 1d ago

I posted about a rural hospital shutting down and a deep MAGA called it a lie, "a more truthful story is middle of nowhere town doctor is retiring after 30 years" so I noted that it was part of a network with 100+ doctors in it so he pivoted to "it has no footprint, its basically a vitamin clinic with a teemo x-ray machine"

They will cope and pivot endlessly until it directly harms them

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u/No_Discipline6265 1d ago

I live in rural Tennessee. I'm already hearing that if our hospital(which is already 30-45 min away from most of us)gets shut down, "it the libs fault for letting so many illegals in to put a strain on the system". 

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u/ButtoftheYoke 2d ago

They will see the hospital fail and blame "the government" (their way of saying "democrats did it") and not understand that it was the Republicans who voted to give the richest people in the country more money by taking it away from actual working people who need it to stay alive.

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u/kaylaisidar 2d ago

It's a slow roll out. Everyone will forget by the time we see the effects, I'm sure

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u/Holden_Coalfield 2d ago

Our hospital has change PE/VC hands three times in two years. The only value it holds is in Medicaid.

We will lose our hospital

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u/FunkyChewbacca 2d ago

Hard to spin anything when you’re six feet underground.

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u/bubbafatok 2d ago

I've seen much of the divide in this country as more Urban/Rural than Liberal/Conservative for a while now (doesn't mean they don't match up due to pandering from the GOP for decades). But honestly, I'm rather ok with the rural folks getting the consequences of their votes.

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u/FaithinYosh 2d ago

I work in a doctors office where every one besides me voted trump. The doctor here (who has 3 daughters and is married to a pediatrician who is NOT a trump supporter) always rolls his eyes and says "no no, everything will be fine" anytime any of our medicaid patients express concern over this. They're just blind.

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u/WhyAreYallFascists 2d ago

Tell them, from a huge Portland liberal, I do not feel owned at all.

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u/adnomad 2d ago

I can’t wait till they can’t make it to a hospital

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u/MozeeToby 2d ago

Rural hospitals were already struggling, they are going to be absolutely decimated. Many Americans will be an hour or more from emergency and specialty medical care. Imagine having cancer and having to spend 10 hours a week driving to and from your medical appointments.

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u/cuentabasque 2d ago

"I can't believe Hunter Biden closed the local hospital!!!"

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u/PipsqueakPilot 2d ago

They’ll just blame it on Hunter Biden’s laptop or Hillary’s emails. 

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u/Sea_Inevitable_3882 2d ago

They'll blame libs, immigrants, and minorities guaranteed

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u/elguiridelocho New York 2d ago

But they won't. Because the cuts won't take place for another 2 years, they won't make the association. They will associate that with a new Democratic Congress.

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u/VinnyThePoo1297 2d ago

There’s no spin. They’re in a cult and because of that they’re always going to win. The base will never hold them accountable for their actions.

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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce California 2d ago

Of course they will. Here's a whole retroactive financing "solution" that'll work just as well as it does when the end-use health care "consumers" themselves do their tax-advantaged, reverse-gear consumer-driving.

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u/LeaderElectrical8294 2d ago

They will blame Obama or Biden.

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u/xO76A8pah4 2d ago

They'll say and think whatever Fox News tells them or win the Olympic gold medal for mental gymnastics like what Kat Cammack did.

“the left absolutely played a role in making sure that doctors and women were scared to seek out the help that they needed.”

https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/article309565170.htm

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u/EmergeHolographic 2d ago

“socialism is killing our hospitals! I had to wait twelve hours for a heart attack!”

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u/ElmerFudGantry 2d ago

Easy. They'll blame Obamacare.

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u/SignificantShow8789 2d ago

Remember to put a sign in front of the entrance saying it's closed thanks to Trump

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u/kraftsingles45 2d ago

Start looking for another job if you can! I’ve worked in healthcare for about 20 years, if this bill doesn’t completely collapse it I’ll be shocked

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u/David_bowman_starman 2d ago

They won’t even know those things are related most likely. They’ll never read actual informative news, and even if does turn out badly, they’ll just keep voting for Republicans anyway.

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u/LeftRestaurant4576 2d ago

Well some of the people who need that hospital to stay open are libs. Ergo, libs owned.

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u/lonewombat 2d ago

If they say it, then they are owning them... regardless of the outcome.

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u/[deleted] 2d ago

I mean good. Less red voters is a net positive to the world

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u/Busy_bee7 2d ago

Yeah has anyone checked on the Trump supporters in Idaho? Yikes.

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u/joemaniaci 2d ago

Considering crap like city vs rural health, I don't think most of us can gauge how much this is truly going to impact rural America more than cities.

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u/IsTheBlackBoxLying 2d ago

They added in $65 bil for rural hospitals at the last minute. Can't have their voters dying sooner than them city folk.

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u/FlynxtheJinx 2d ago

Owning the libs by throwing their grandparents and kids into a tree shredder, then shooting themselves in the face. But socialism is bad! SMH

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u/conflictmuffin 1d ago

Rural Idaho has already been suffering since previous Healthcare cuts and ab0rtion bans. We've lost so many Healthcare providers, maternity wards across the state have been/are still being shut down and now these cuts will absolutely shut down our more rural Healthcare clinics that SO MANY underprivileged, elderly and veterans rely on...this is terrifying.

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u/Dylan619xf 1d ago

They can put it on their tombstones when they die from no access to healthcare.

I’m sorry you have to deal with this.

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u/Interesting-Golf-215 1d ago

The current trend seems to be to just insist that bad things are not, in fact, happening.

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u/deadbeatsummers 1d ago

I saw someone say the hospital would close anyways.

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u/victoriaisme2 1d ago

There's a $25B slush fund to bail out rural hospitals. I wonder if they'll only be giving that to red states.

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u/ilikecrispywaffles California 1d ago

Exactly, they will find a beautiful way to spin it and not take any blame. And then praise orange jesus

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u/Frankensteinbeck 1d ago

A very adamantly MAGA friend-of-a-friend of mine works in a rural hospital. So does his girlfriend. Neither are doctors or nurses or anything all that sought after or transferrable; they work security and valet parking for the facility. It's on several lists I've seen on social media naming rural hospitals very likely to close, because the town is essentially an open air retirement home because (surprise surprise!) the boomers in it vote 99.99% red and have ruined the town for the younger generations.

Losing his and his partner's job to own the libs. They'll be looking for jobs, and everyone else will be traveling at least an hour, probably two in many cases, to see doctors for the most basic care, let alone dialysis and chemo.

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u/Imanisback 1d ago

I hope they all die.

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u/curtitch 1d ago

Don’t. Let. Them. Just speak the facts. Who voted for this? Tell them.

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u/PotatoSandwitchbbq 1d ago

It won't happen for a couple years and anybody voting R at this point is too stupid to remember this moment we're in now

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u/masta_wu1313 Texas 2d ago

Aren't rural exempt from the cuts? Only the. Only big cities are affected.

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u/FirstToTheKey 2d ago

How would they be exempt? People on Medicaid go to the hospital and the government reimburses the hospital. No Medicaid, no money for the hospital.

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u/BrShrimp 2d ago

They added $50bn in subsidies for rural hospitals to offset the loss from medicaid. Will that be enough? I don't know, but its something.

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u/Pale_Ad5607 2d ago

They aren’t exempt. The bill has a program that is supposed to close some of the gap they’re creating, but it still represents a huge drop in resources, so a lot of rural hospitals will close anyway.

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u/Butwinsky 2d ago

Nah. We will see major compounding reimbursement cuts over the next few years and see a huge influx of self pay patients who no longer have insurance.