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Richard S's avatar

Early, preventable deaths.

It's how the Republicans will achieve their long-standing goal to reduce the cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid:

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Sandy Friedman's avatar

Long standing goal is to reverse everything FDR accomplished, including defeating the fascists. and all subsequent progress post WW2. The naked pres is merely the useful idiot star of the daily tv series we are living in. Tune in to Fox and see reality from another side. 23+ Fox presenters are in the administration … bureaucracy is inefficient no doubt … but the current regime wants to go backwards in time and get rich doing it

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Richard and Susan Bowden's avatar

So incredibly horrible, sad, greedy folks who are actually asking for the collapse of our whole medical system. Our system needs significant improvement not gutting.

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Richard S's avatar

In the Oval Office, Trump told Canada's new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, that as America's 51st State, Canadians would enjoy lower taxes, free military protection and "better health care."

Carney could only look at Trump in stunned, slack-jawed disbelief.

There is not one developed country in the world that would trade its healthcare system for America's chaotic, unfair, unequal, exorbitantly-overpriced healthcare system. Not one.

And certainly not Canada.

Trump's cluelessness is deliberate, sadistic and damaging for both Americans and America.

Remember, the Orange Calamity has -- in spite of repeated promises -- never managed to produce a health care plan for America.

After a decade of producing nothing, his latest claim -- when questioned -- is that he has "concepts" of a plan.

Apparently, the "concepts" include wantonly killing as many American men, women and children as possible.

How else does one explain the "Big Beautiful Bill" and RFK Jr.?

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Marie's avatar

There’s no ‘splainin’ the orange turd and healthcare/insurance. All have been broken equal amounts of time. Now it will be really “broke” in so many ways - research, insurance, education, public health and on and on. Diseases from around the world will be shared with abandon and no ability to contain it thanks to the moron maga sycophants, SCOTUS, Opus Dei, uncle Thomas’ wife, Leonardo leomygod, brain worm kennedypsychopath and more. I gave the pandemic handling in the orange regime an F- and it is totally ignoring the bird flu and measles epidemic (bird flu spreading to other countries which qualifies as a pandemic). Measles will follow. I doubt there will be a viable COVID or even flu vaccine next year. A new travel theme - fly to a place that offers legitimate vaccines destination.

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Arkansas Blue's avatar

Not funny, but too true.

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Marie's avatar

So true. Glad I’ve passed my sell by date. When I can’t take it anymore, I just hope there’s someone who can give me a big slug of something - maybe an ICE agent wearing a mask.

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Annie Airplane's avatar

A horrible truth told with few words!

On a bright note, so happy to see Michael de Adder on Substack. Missed his work on WaPo.

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