Posted on 05/28/2025 9:26:45 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
In recent years, Americans have learned a hard truth: “Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me.” During COVID-19, we were told to trust the experts, obey mandates, and silence our dissent. Over time, the truth emerged—much of what we were sold was false, and the price we paid in lives, education, and finances from their false narrative scam was extreme.
Now, many of those same voices are repeating another falsehood: that cutting Medicaid will cause Americans to die.
Recently, Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and 19 House conservatives called for “structural reforms” to Medicaid in a letter supporting the GOP’s reconciliation bill. The bill proposes ending the enhanced federal match for Medicaid expansion and equalizing matching rates for work-capable adults. This would contribute to $880 billion in less expected spending than otherwise over the next decade. Predictably, the media and progressive lawmakers responded with panic. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries declared that such reforms would cause “people to die.”
But repeating a lie doesn’t make it true.
Medicaid is failing. Cutting its excesses and restoring its core purpose isn’t cruelty—it’s compassion. Structural reform is the only path forward if we want to protect the truly vulnerable and improve access to care.
Medicaid was created in 1965 as a safety net for the most vulnerable: low-income children, pregnant women, people with disabilities, and the elderly. But that mission has been lost. Starting with the ACA, followed by the emergency declaration for COVID-19 and thereafter, the federal government greatly expanded Medicaid enrollment. They expanded eligibility standards and suspended verification—millions of healthy, working-age adults were added, many of whom no longer qualify.
Millions of Americans were thrown out of work by the Biden administration lockdowns and thus lost their employer-supported health insurance. Biden allowed them to enroll in Medicaid.
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As a result, access to health care has plummeted. After the ACA’s Medicaid expansion, wait times to see a primary care doctor in mid-sized cities rose from 99 to 122 days. Under the Biden administration, that delay has reached 132 days. Meanwhile, nearly one-third of physicians refuse new Medicaid patients due to low payments and excessive red tape. In Texas, fewer than half do.
This leads to death-by-queue—patients with government “coverage” die waiting in line (a queue) for care. According to the British Medical Journal, even a one-month delay in cancer diagnosis raises the risk of death. Medicaid patients are now waiting four months or longer.
Kind of a nonsensical argument: If now-employed, low-income workers would use their company insurance (which they likely can’t afford), they’d still have access but overall medical care in their area would be less crowded because it wouldn’t be paid for by Medicaid?!?
They need to also go after those criminals committing fraud against Medicaid and Medicare.
Life sentences and nothing less.
Effective argument; # of physicians increased by 150% from 1970 to 2024 ; # health care bureaucrats by 4,400 %. I guess you have to know the baseline for a proper assessment on bureaucrats.
We got now, thanks to Obama, what the Europeans were getting for a long time and we used to laugh on them.
Long lines, terrible care, huge government spending and huge government red tape!
Medicaid MUST be reformed to save some medical care money for the really needy.
Why are there people on Medicaid? Obamacare or Medicaid, but not both. Obamacare was the fix for these people. The problem (not a problem IMHO) is that the welfare class won’t get tax refund checks after paying their Obamacare premiums with advance tax credits like the system is designed to do. They want free Healthcare and free cash. I’m giddy that Obamacare fixes that. So let it work.
With respect, you missed the party where many doctors don’t accept Medicaid. When you increase the pool of available doctors, overall wait times decrease.
Okay.
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