Disappointed and Outraged at Lack of Health Care Protections

POZ ^ | November 17, 2025 | Treatment Action Group

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Treatment Action Group (TAG) is profoundly disappointed and outraged at the lack of health care protections for people living with and affected by HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C (HCV) in the bill to end the U.S. government shutdown. With only a promise of a future vote to extend the Affordable Care Act (ACA) tax credits, millions of people now face unaffordable health insurance costs. As we approach World AIDS Day on December 1, we demand that legislators defend access and affordability of health care, especially for those with preexisting conditions.

Several of the fiscal year 2026 appropriations bills, which were put on hold during the shutdown, have deeply concerning cuts to vital public health programs.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: chat; homosexualagenda; notnews

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Some of the areas cut, along with their ridiculous funding levels.

• $456 million cut from the National Institutes of Health (NIH);
• $34.3 million cut and block granted for CDC’s TB Elimination, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD), and Opioid Related Infectious Diseases funding lines;
• Full elimination of CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention, a cut of $1.014 billion;
• Full elimination of CDC’s Global HIV/AIDS and Global TB Programs;
• Full elimination of the Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) program started under the first Trump administration; and
• $525.4 million cut from the Ryan White AIDS Care program.

Fund your own freaking perversion. We're sick of enabling your willful sickness.

[clee1]

I fail to see how other people’s healthcare has become my problem.

[Jim W N]

There are so many reasons unconstitutional gov’t healthcare should be abolished.

Here is a sampling of reasons:

1) Gov’t takeover of healthcare is unconstitutional and, thus, illegal. Nowhere does the Constitution delegate power to the feds to meddle in healthcare.

2) See 1)

3) Gov’t healthcare puts your individual healthcare in the hands of distant, indifferent, and non-medial D.C. bureaucrats and politicians who of course as middlemen must be paid and, thus, increasing the cost of healthcare. The HHS bureaucracy has a budget of $1 trillion.

4) The highest quality, most affordable, and most available healthcare in the world is what we had in the voluntary cooperation DIRECTLY between doctor and patient before the gov’t muscled in in the 50’s and 60’s with its “helping hand” hand out and a hammer behind his back! As Ronald Reagan said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help’”.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4350455/posts?page=1

5) Gov’t hammer? What hammer? Forced vaccines, forced abortions, forced treatment all by distant politicians and bureaucrats who are not medical experts and do not know you personally.

6) Gov’t agenda vs. your own personal agenda. Who cares more about your health? You? Or some distant politician and bureaucrat who doesn’t know you from Adam and frankly couldn’t care less about you personally?

7) No one cares more about your health than you. Why in the world would you take your personal healthcare and your personal choices in the self interest of your health and wellbeing out of the hands of the DIRECT relationship between you and the doctor of your choosing who knows and cares about you, and instead put your healthcare in the hands gov’t politicians and bureaucrats who don’t know you, have the power to force you to do what they want, and who have their own agenda which includes “culling” the “overpopulation” - so gov’t has a bias toward death.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4350451/posts
https://www.vigilantfox.com/p/the-1-killer-in-hospitals-isnt-a

8) “Healthcare” availability based on gov’t budgeting – a potential disaster. Long lines and long waiting time for procedures immediately available under free market healthcare directly between doctor and patient.
Ongoing government shutdown hinders healthcare providers during flu season

9) That is a short list. There’s more but why would anyone need more reasons? NUKE UNCONSTITUTIONAL GOV’T HEALTHCARE!!!

[AFB-XYZ]

I’ve looked and looked, but I just can’t find a reference anywhere in the Constitution that people’s health care being the Govt’s or the taxpayers’ responsibility.

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I fully agree. It's highly illegal, and shame on courts for not finding as such.

Consider this funding piece:
- Full elimination of CDC’s Division of HIV Prevention, a cut of $1.014 billion;

HIV is the easiest disease to prevent ever. You don't catch it from toilet seats or door knobs or even from someone sneezing on you. You have to ACTIVELY SEEK IT OUT AND ACQUIRE IT.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Go thank Obama if you have a problem with healthcare costs, because Obamacare is what caused the issue.

[exnavy]

Let’s give medical coverage exactly as the constitution calls for.

[ChessExpert]

The health care I’m entitled to is the health care I am willing to pay for.

[packrat35]

Opening back up the government was not the place to make your case.

Do it in a separate bill and argue the merits there.

[roving]

My health care insurance became unaffordable a few months after Obamacare passed.

[yldstrk]

Medishare. Yes you have to give up street drugs and sex with random partners.

[spintreebob]

Sec Rollins says welfare recipients must re-register to avoid fraud.

Poverty pimp Deloitte’s IESIntegrated Eligibility System is the fraud. Re-registration does not solve that.

[kiryandil]

😂😂😂😂

[Flavious_Maximus]

They want you to pay for the homosexual diseases that are entirely preventable, while the degenerates continue with their sodomite depravity.

HIV-AID’s is the answer to modern day Sodom and Gomorrah. Die you filthy democrats, DIE! /spit

[maddog55]

I got an EOB from my insurance company on some test I had do...$6k. insurance paid $700 something.

What a scam. We’re seldom if ever sick, no prescriptions etcif I could pay Drs and healthcare services what they accept from insurance companies accepted if just drop my insurance and save a ton.

I actually did a few times but it was unusual and over a dental bill that they accepted.

[Chewbarkah]

“...outraged at the lack of health care protections for people living with and affected by HIV, tuberculosis (TB), and hepatitis C (HCV) in the bill to end the U.S. government shutdown.”

The diseases noted above tend to afflict the very poor (immigrants for TB, intravenous drug users for HIV and HCV) who qualify for Medicaid. How many high-income people who benefitted from the extended ObamaCare premium tax credits have these ailments? A baker’s dozen?

What they really want is more subsidies for relatively well-off people in high-wage/high tax/high cost of living Blue states.

[lightman]

Best protection: Keep your fly up!

[DoughtyOne]

We told them that the Afordable Care Act should have been
name the unAfordable Care Act, but nobody listened.

Well, here we are after people losing their old policies,
fined $1,000 for not buying in, and having to practically
put their children out for prostitution to afford the uACA,
policy.

Now the Left quietly acts as if the government subsidy was
always a facet of the ‘great plan’.

Idiots.

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

Rather off topic, but in the end it actually isn’t.

They still want sugar-daddy Uncle Sam to pay for their
lack of intelligence.

Issue after issue after issue, it’s the same underlying
theme.

Taxpayers have lots of money...