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WSHazel

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5. The impact will go beyond just Medicaid

Reply to msongs (Original post)

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.

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when the massive medicaid cuts come in a few days, how should dems respond to constitutents who [View all] msongs Jul 2025 OP

The Medicaid cuts in the bill are not scheduled to happen until 2027 Wiz Imp Jul 2025 #1

Hold a focus group and reach out to Andrew Tate? 617Blue Jul 2025 #2

Strategically timed for the voters to blame Ds in 2026 and beyond. The Ds should be screaming about in2herbs Jul 2025 #3

Hope Dems are working on a Project 2026/2028 that includes some serious healthcare reform. The biggest cuts Silent Type Jul 2025 #4

The impact will go beyond just Medicaid WSHazel Jul 2025 #5

Much like the pregnant women who are told KT2000 Jul 2025 #6