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Posted on 04/25/2025 4:34:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Tony, an energetic 7-year-old who loves playing football and roughhousing with his brothers wasn’t all that excited when his parents took the family to see Santa in December. Instead, he was tired and lethargic.
Tony has been in and out of the hospital, his body weakened by chemotherapy. Pauline McLaurin quit her job as a fifth-grade teacher to care for him, and they struggle to pay their bills on the salary her husband, Ronnie McLaurin, makes as an electrician.
As if that weren’t enough, the McLaurins have a new worry. They lost their private insurance when Pauline McLaurin left her job, and now they fear losing their Medicaid, the government health insurance program that pays for Tony’s care.
Medicaid insures 1 out of 3 children diagnosed with cancer in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society’s Cancer Action Network.
President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers have called for dramatic government budget cuts that many nonpartisan experts say are unfeasible without significant cuts to Medicaid.
A House Republican budget plan instructs the Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees Medicaid, to identify at least $880 billion in mandatory spending cuts over the next 10 years. While the plan doesn’t specifically mention Medicaid, the experts say it would be unfeasible for Republicans to hit that target without significant cuts to the health program, since it’s one of the largest sources of federal spending, costing more than $600 billion per year, according to government data.
Pauline McLaurin said she is “terrified” and “hopeless” at the prospect of losing Medicaid.
“It’s a very scary, uneasy feeling,” she said.
The McLaurins are not alone.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
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Slashing medicaid will surely turn kids into Oliver Twist.
Lame stream media fear porn...
Now the left is back to the “but it’s for the kids” BS.
No doubt the MSM has formed fear mongering teams and throwing anything and everything againt the wall hoping something will stick with the gullable public.
A sufficient number of GOP senators have already come out against cutting Medicaid. The bad news is you probably cannot do the necessary cuts unless you do cut Medicaid.
And that is why the Reconciliation bill is in such big trouble.
The problem with Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security is they became the political “easy” button for politicians to satisfy everyone and everything. You have X problem? I’ll just go to my easy solution button and make you eligible for all the money you need. You don’t have to thank me. Just vote for me and I’ll keep the solutions flowing.
As long as these programs exist no other solutions are necessary. And let’s not let the marketplace or private charities solve any problems because we want those sweet, sweet votes.
Story suggestion for NBC: “Grandparents worried grandchildren will become paupers due to escalating budget deficits, and grandchildren will struggle learning Chinese”.
NBC is the lowest of the low propagandistic liars.
The Kite boarders up here in Michigan are all panty wadded for “Cuts to NOAA” due to Orange Man’s policies. “Were going to lose detection buoys for wind and navigation!! We’re Doomed!!”
Morons!! The lot of them!!
They need to curse more. “This $&#&_)&;_ is $#%$% cutting medicare for my#$&$#@&+ sick #_$_-@)+_ kid!
Maybe they shoulda kept the job with a good insurance plan?
Why is an electrician on Medicaid? No union? No self employed insurance plan?
Just thinking out loud
My mother was a teacher and had excellent insurance coverage all her life
She took a 4 month sabbatical once when a family member needed medical assistance
A very fine phrase capturing the cause of severe cracks in this nation's very foundations. Kudos for the imagery!
IF Tony really exists, HE WON’T LOSE MEDICAID!
Just dead people, scammers, and illegals need to worry.
Negative propaganda fear mongering by the enemy media.
The problem is there are still too many who believe them.
More people need to wake up to how MSM constantly tries to manipulate them into supporting and voting for the Democrat/Communist party.
Cuts to Medicaid could close the baby milk factory
There’s another problem that nobody wants to touch.
Medicare/Medicaid dual eligibles.
That is a huge problem.
And a note to the dual elegibles who’ve spent down in order to take advantage of taxpayers...
I hope to God your kids love you, because your care as a dual eligible will be worth what you pay for it, and if your kids don’t give a damn, you’re screwed.
Women, children, and people of color affected first.
Wow, and to think, a three dollar pill will cure cancer, and it’s been around for decades. Zoo animals are treated better than hospital patients. Ivermectin and fenbendazol. Testimonials are popping up of hopeless people being cured.
YES! If these folks even exist. Wonder how this story originated? The family full of worry reached out? The writer just happened to hear about them? And just exactly “who” are the many, all so many others referred to here?
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