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Zelda Hester's avatar

Congress is going to have to make a decision here, and it will forever frame their mindset as to how Americans are supposed to live. Either they have the decency to try to make the lives of the poor and the working class better, which in turn makes our country stronger, or they will capitulate to the most corrupt President perhaps in our history, and unleash the harsh realities of life with no government help, relegating those who do not have enough, to poverty, disease and death. The rich will continue to squander their wealth on themselves, while supporting a government that excludes most of its citizens from having a life that is sustainable in the long term. Hopefully the millions who are now regretting their vote for Trump, are at last seeing what it means to have a feckless, destructive, and self absorbed man running our country into the ground at a feverish pace.

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oj birkestrand's avatar

MAGA will double down & keep thinking the pain will not be applied to them, but to the "others", for they voted for El Dumpo & he promised to look after them. .

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Perry Martin's avatar

Well said. Nice summary.

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Karen Epstein's avatar

Ugh! Republicans are terrible or are least making terribke decisions.

Here in Massachusetts, my 2 Democratic senators and my Democratic House Rep are doing the right things. BUT, they need to build a joint group to STOP the evil ones like the 34xfelon/sex offender, his minions, and the authors and implementors of the heinous and inhumane project 2025.

STEP UP DEMS!!!!

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Michelle Jordan's avatar

The point is to soak the middle class and literally tax us out of existence. The strategy is to start with the working class poor and work their way up.

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oj birkestrand's avatar

Yes, and I predict that unfortunately they will succeed, for the pain comes long after the vote/decision was made & those affected will no longer have a say in reversing it..

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Watchandlearn's avatar

Don’t predict, act! This can be stopped w knowledge included here and heavy pressure. Where r you NY, NJ, MO, CO, MT, IA, etc etc etc. ?????

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Diane Choquette's avatar

It's bad enough that we don't have universal healthcare, but it's unconsionable to take healthcare away from people who can least afford to pay for it.

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Cynthia DuBose's avatar

Great show! I just wanted to make a correction to what Ms. Tanden said: Michelle Steel is no longer a congresswoman from the 45th district in California. Last fall she was replaced by Derek Tran, a Democrat in a GREAT showing by the people in the district near to me.

Now we are working on getting rid of Young Kim, who is the Republican congresswoman who unfortunately represents me in the 40th district!

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Ted Mayhugh's avatar

To cut health care for millions of Americans is a direct attack on their physical safety ... people will die or have crippling problems they would have prevented with healthcare. And it is not just those on Medicaid. As facilities close those with insurance may not have a facility they can access in timely when needed. To my mind, the results of this threat would be no different than if they were physically threatening those who would be impacted.

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Sara's avatar

I work in a rural hospital and we serve about 50% Medicaid patients. What people may not realize is that we need to serve these people regardless of payment! THAT is why these policies sink hospitals. We end up working for free, housing them for free, giving medical treatment for free... and that is not sustainable. (Meanwhile, the billionaires will NEVER be able to spend all of their money but it is for their tax cut - which they do not need - that hospitals sink, people lose healthcare, and rural hospital workers lose their jobs. Super dumb.).

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Kim Sherwood's avatar

This is great exposition of the systemic nature of this R proposal--thank you!

One thing that I think is not stressed enough is what you spoke of, Jen, regarding the linkage of the proposed cuts to rural hospitals, and then to the economies of rural communities where they're located.

I will believe to my dying day it is EXACTLY that kind of domino effect that ALL of the actions by the regime are intended. In Ruth Ben-Ghiat's book "Strongmen", she talks extensively about the need of the wannabe dictator to divide and sow chaos among the people.

From the massive firings, loss of government services, approval of a sycophant Cabinet, illegal incarcerations and deportations, tariffs (taxes), continual lying to the American people, and now these proposed cuts to health care, I think it's intentionally designed in a cumulative effects way to ripen conditions so trump can be dictator.

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Perry Martin's avatar

Wow. Thanks for educating us. So glad to be a Contrarian.

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CC's avatar

Thank you!

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Grace Doolittle's avatar

Where are the ads about this? I just read the piece stating that no one watches the news, just reality TV (I’m apparently an aberration), so we need ads like those in the 90s talking about this issue. Anyone else remember Harry and Louise?

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earl's avatar

Excellent!!

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Julia Rothe's avatar

how do I access promised breakout on number of persons effected by cuts by State?

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Rev. Gladys Davis's avatar

Helpful. Thanks. When will that district-by-district be available and on what site?

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anne majerik's avatar

i am not getting audio

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