Just to Set the Record Straight on Medicaid
By Jim Bauer
@porwest (102968)
United States
July 7, 2025 6:20am CST
People are ridiculous and don't pay attention. That really is the answer here, and you can't say it any other way.
In a word, Medicaid.
Now that the OBBB has been signed into law of course the left is on and on about all the poor people who will be tossed off Medicaid—of course, they always use the "grandma" argument.
The reality, or in other words, the truth? No one will be tossed off Medicaid who does not qualify for Medicaid under the SAME EXACT qualification guidelines before the OBBB.
Who's getting tossed? People MADE TEMPORARILY eligible during Covid who were still on Medicaid NOW even when they would no longer qualify for it.
The people losing Medicaid coverage now are those who ONLY qualified for it as a measure that was provided as Covid assistance under the American Rescue Plan.
People are back to work. Covid is over. And so, we go back to the original qualifiers. NO ONE IS LOSING MEDICAID WHO WOULD HAVE QUALIFIED BEFORE OR WHO WOULD QUALIFY NOW.
This needs to be clear. When you read the headline, "10 million people will lose their Medicaid," it sounds awful until you know the truth which is "10 million EXTRA people qualified during Covid who do not NEED Medicaid now." You know, 10 million, HALF of the 20 million who became unemployed during Covid who qualified due to covid and their employment status and whether or not their employers maintained their benefits while they were out of work.
Tossing people OFF a program who do not qualify does not reduce coverage. It fortifies coverage for those who do and who truly need it.
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@FourWalls (76520)
• United States
7 Jul
Never let facts get in the way. It’s like everyone blaming DOGE for the flash flood deaths in Texas. (The NWS office was staffed with FIVE PEOPLE (usually offices have two workers at all times) during the event. Flood watches, warnings, and emergencies were issued. When you’re out in the middle of nowhere, though, is your cell phone going to sound the WEA tone? Other people want to blame “global warming.” That river (the Guadalupe) floods a lot, to the point where that part of Texas is called “Flash Flood Alley.” I’ve seen newspaper articles of floods along the river in 1932, 1933, 1936, and 1938, long before “global warming.”)
People who need Medicaid will still have it. Medicaid, however, has always been prone to fraud (from both the people on Medicaid AND the medical outlets paid by it!).
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@rebelann (114271)
• El Paso, Texas
7 Jul
The biggest problem I see are those media people who are trying to sway readers or listeners to believe what they want or who are simply trying to get high ratings by twisting the truth.
I miss those who were real journalists like Walter Cronkite who simply relayed the news
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@porwest (102968)
• United States
7 Jul
Really, it's the job of the media to report the news accurately, and that includes information about what's in these bills and what they mean. Instead, they choose to distort the truth and tell lies. All that can happen is that others in media circles, commentators for example, can tell it like it is. But the problem is that most people want to believe what they want to believe anyway, and when there are a variety of "truths" to choose from, most people will choose the truth they believe to be true rather than the one that's actually true.
If the news was the news, there'd be nothing to dispute because everyone would be telling the same story.
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@porwest (102968)
• United States
7 Jul
@kareng There IS a silver lining for me, and I think that's that more people do seem to be paying attention. I mean, when you think about it, for all the effort the media and the left made to spread one lie after the other, he still won everything. The popular vote, every single swing state, the women's vote, the Hispanic vote, the black vote, the union vote...
He also took back the House and kept the Senate.
So, when I look at it that way I have to believe the liars are losing their fight and being called out by the voters. If the liars were EFFECTIVELY lying, in that they were actually convincing people the lies are true...
Trump could not have won in the way he did, which was a by a clear mandate, and by a rather large margin considering all of the demographics he siphoned off from what are typically Democrat votes.
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