Republicans. They're not sending their best.

Trump promises to cut drug prices by 1,500%—then doubles them instead
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/27/2345606/-Trump-promises-to-cut-drug-prices-by-1-500-then-doubles-them-instead

#DrugPrices #BigFuglyBill #BBB #Medicare #Medicaid #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Georgia #Health #Poverty #Healthcare #Medicaid

Republicans. They're not sending their best.

Trump promises to cut drug prices by 1,500%—then doubles them instead
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/27/2345606/-Trump-promises-to-cut-drug-prices-by-1-500-then-doubles-them-instead

#DrugPrices #BigFuglyBill #BBB #Medicare #Medicaid #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol

Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #Georgia #Health #Poverty #Healthcare #Medicaid

"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirements-costs-gao-9cf889d1d931f2f0bd9900f50056f9af

#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol

"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."

https://apnews.com/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirements-costs-gao-9cf889d1d931f2f0bd9900f50056f9af

#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol

"The D.C. occupation is a totalitarian threat indicative of Trump’s wider ambition to militarize American cities and a distraction from Trump’s colossal failures (e.g., inflation, Ukraine, cutting healthcare to pay for billionaires’ tax cuts, the Jeffrey Epstein files coverup)."

~ Jennifer Rubin

#Trump#WashingtonDC #fascism #military#Epstein #Putin #economy#BigBeautifulBill#Medicare#Medicaid
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https://contrarian.substack.com/p/trumps-crime-canard

"Today Trump is fully unbridled. Yet, for the first time, finds himself unable to convince majorities that he’s got a magic economic touch. As the situation deteriorates, he’ll have to either reverse course—changing pretty much everything about the way he’s governing—or else go to even greater lengths to control information and manipulate the public."

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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"For most of his years in office, Trump has benefitted from unearned public trust in his stewardship of the economy. It even kept him afloat in 2020, as he managed to persuade most Americans that the pandemic-induced recession was an act of god, rather than a crisis he exacerbated through deceit and incompetence."

~ Brian Beutler

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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https://www.offmessage.net/p/trump-is-spiraling

"And think of how many times he promised not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, then bullied Republican members of Congress into passing a budget that takes $1 trillion from Medicaid, threatening to deny millions of Americans access to health care and force rural hospitals to close. Meanwhile, cuts to nutrition programs threaten rural grocery stores."

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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"Trump campaigned as if he had a foolproof plan to reduce grocery prices on day one, but in fact, grocery prices are up 3 percent year-over-year and reached record highs in 2025. In an example of classic Trump gaslighting, he’s telling people the bald-faced lie that prices are 'WAY DOWN.'"

~ Svante Myrick

#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5432719-trump-broken-promises-corruption/

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There's a clip of Biden's final state of the union address, where he mentioned "there are republicans who want to cut Medicare and Medicaid"

Republicans booed, MTG stood up and yelled 'liar', Sen Mike Lee stood up shaking his head 'no'.

Every single one of them voted to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
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#alttext #alt4you#USpol#Biden #medicare #medicaid#StateOfTheUnion#MTG

And the shit hits the fan, after the midterms ... so make use of this plain language summary to inform the public with op ed pieces:

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/medicaid-cuts-the-how-and-why?r=1rhuu4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#politics #news

Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people?

Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes.

Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE.

That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.

It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.

Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.

#uspol #fascism #immigration #medicaid #ableism #disability

And the shit hits the fan, after the midterms ... so make use of this plain language summary to inform the public with op ed pieces:

https://open.substack.com/pub/yourlocalepidemiologist/p/medicaid-cuts-the-how-and-why?r=1rhuu4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

#politics #news

Bill Goodman, a former longtime host of “Kentucky Tonight” on KET-TV, which broadcasts statewide from Lexington, recalled watching a recent episode of his old show that devoted nearly an entire hour to an in-depth conversation about #Medicaid cuts. The guests engaged in reasoned & intricate arguments from opposite sides of the national debate.

“You don’t find that on commercial television,” he said.

#Trump#Republicans#PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy

Bill Goodman, a former longtime host of “Kentucky Tonight” on KET-TV, which broadcasts statewide from Lexington, recalled watching a recent episode of his old show that devoted nearly an entire hour to an in-depth conversation about #Medicaid cuts. The guests engaged in reasoned & intricate arguments from opposite sides of the national debate.

“You don’t find that on commercial television,” he said.

#Trump#Republicans#PublicBroadcasting #censorship #authoritarianism #autocracy