Frickin' With Medicaid

The Big Beautiful Bill is evil

Trump’s $4 trillion (at least) “big beautiful bill” is giving seniors a tax credit of $6,000, which is great because they’re gonna need it.

The bill makes deep cuts to Medicaid, the government health insurer for the poor, which covers more than 60 percent of the nation’s nursing home residents.

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimated that the BBB will cut federal spending on Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) benefits by $1.02 trillion, due in part to eliminating at least 10.5 million people from the programs by 2034.

This will lead to benefit losses, increased paperwork requirements, and rural hospital closures that will hurt Americans, especially those with disabilities. It will also make nursing homes scramble to find resources for services they’re currently providing, or simply eliminate services.

Republicans like to say, or lie, that people who receive Medicaid aren’t going to notice any changes. But you can’t find one of the shitweasels who can explain how you don’t lose any services after cutting out over a trillion dollars. Find me one Republican, just one, who can explain that shit.

This will hit rural communities harder. Do you know which party rural communities mostly vote for? The one that just cut their Medicaid. Republican voters are stupid. Red states need the most federal support. Red states need the most welfare, which they also cut.

Also, those red states along the coast in the south and in the Midwest can relax about the government providing disaster relief for hurricanes and tornadoes, because there won’t be any. Donald Trump invested FEMA funds into Alligator Alcatraz.

Remember when Republicans were bitching about not getting enough help from FEMA in North Carolina during the Biden administration? They lied and said Biden was giving the money to immigrants. Now, Donald Trump is literally giving FEMA money to immigrants by caging them in a concentration camp in a Florida swamp.

Say what you will about Dr. Evil, but he was never as evil as Trump or Republicans. At the very least, Dr. Evil only made one clone of himself.

Happy Fourth of July, my friends. Enjoy it because it might be our last.

Creative note: My brain doesn’t work at every hour, and it still thinks it’s in California. So, my ideas didn’t start gelling until around 1 or 2 p.m. yesterday. Stupid jet lag. But I did get a creative spurt, and five ideas came out. I also got this idea (along with the one for the Boca cartoon) during that spree, so I didn’t have to think of one this morning.

Music note: I listened to Peter Gabriel and the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs while coloring.

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