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msongs

(73,074 posts)
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:31 PM Jul 2025

when the massive medicaid cuts come in a few days, how should dems respond to constitutents who

are going to be affected? say there there and give em a pat on the back. refer them to what health care will still be available. ask for their vote and....money. Suppose there are many options. Then again maybe most of those
affected won't realize it for a while. it will be interesting times for sure.

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Wiz Imp

(8,898 posts)
1. The Medicaid cuts in the bill are not scheduled to happen until 2027
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:34 PM
Jul 2025

There will be no massive Medicaid cuts in a few days.

617Blue

(2,189 posts)
2. Hold a focus group and reach out to Andrew Tate?
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:35 PM
Jul 2025

There's no point anymore. Too late. They were scared and unprepared.

in2herbs

(4,196 posts)
3. Strategically timed for the voters to blame Ds in 2026 and beyond. The Ds should be screaming about
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:36 PM
Jul 2025

this right now!

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
4. Hope Dems are working on a Project 2026/2028 that includes some serious healthcare reform. The biggest cuts
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:47 PM
Jul 2025

are going to be from people forced off rolls due to work requirements and cuts to matching rate for those in expanded Medicaid.

They also need to be working with states to pick up some of the federal cuts, particularly for those covered now by expansion.

We need viable proposals going into midterms, not just criticism of trump’s vile actions.

WSHazel

(628 posts)
5. The impact will go beyond just Medicaid
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 10:59 PM
Jul 2025

Fewer Medicaid insured means fewer insured to spread health insurers overhead costs across. This means more no insurance patients showing up and urgent cares and emergency rooms, whose costs get spread across the patients who do have insurance. This means that every one of us will have higher healthcare costs, because our insurance costs are guaranteed to go up.

KT2000

(21,936 posts)
6. Much like the pregnant women who are told
Wed Jul 2, 2025, 11:17 PM
Jul 2025

to wait in their cars until they are near enough to death so something can be done about their miscarriages.

If I am not mistaken, this bill also changes what an ER can do for nonpaying patients. Currently, I have seen the triage nurse in our ER try to convince people to go home because they are not that sick.

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