New poll shows majority of Americans are unaware Trumpcare slashes Medicaid

[workinclasszero]

New poll shows majority of Americans are unaware Trumpcare slashes Medicaid
Just 38 percent of people polled knew the Republican health care bill makes major cuts to Medicaid.
Kiley KrohFollow Senior Editor at ThinkProgress Jun 24

As Senate Republicans aim to force a vote on their version of Trumpcare — a bill that was written in secret, without public hearings, despite the fact that it will reshape one-sixth of the U.S. economy and impact the lives of millions of Americans — most people have been left in the dark.

Last month, the House passed their version of the bill, which would strip health care from 24 million people, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office. The bill also makes major cuts and structural changes to Medicaid, a health insurance program relied upon by nearly 75 million Americans — primarily low-income, disabled, and elderly.

The Senate version of Trumpcare goes even further, according to the draft released by Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Thursday, effectively phasing out Medicaid entirely.

But according to a new poll released by the Kaiser Family Foundation on Friday, only 38 percent of Americans are aware of the significant cuts to Medicaid that would be delivered by the House-passed bill (the poll was conducted before the details of the Senate bill were made public).

Seventy-four percent of those polled, meanwhile, said they have a favorable opinion of Medicaid.

https://thinkprogress.org/majority-of-americans-unaware-trumpcare-slashes-medicaid-bd1eb61c4eb0

[Chasstev365]

1. Elections have consequences....

[Trust Buster]

2. Republicans thrive in an environment of ignorance. Too many Americans are ignorant.

[dubyadiprecession]

7. Their reptilian brains won't allow complex thought.

[Cryptoad]

14. True That

Its one thing to be ignorant but a totally different thing to not be capable of not being ignorant. Can democary exist where the majority is "stupid"???? Ole Ben Franklin didn't thing so!

[Dustlawyer]

19. Compounding their ignorance, Republican supporters only listen to RW media (propaganda).

All that they see, hear, and in a few cases, read from their media never mentions these details. They simply do not get that sort of discussion. Their media just talks about how many freeloaders and the like that will be cut off of Uncle Sugar's dole.

When spot checking Fox right after Comey was fired they were only talking about whether the new FBI director would re-open the Hillary email case. They did not mention the problems for Trump in doing what he did except to say they liberals were "hysterical" with Comey's firing.

Unless something is done about only 6 companies controlling 95% of what we see hear and read our country will only continue it's downward spiral.

[DK504]

16. They love the "uneducated."

[workinclasszero]

29. Fox 'news', hate radio and the MSM keep telling them all is well

They will believe it right up to the republican/1%/Trump deathblow.

They will never see it coming.

[Cha]

3. If they watch Fakefox they sure as hell don't

know.. shame on the m$m for not keeping them informed if they're watching other so called "news" shows.

this is what the gop senate is counting on.. keep them in the dark like gd mushrooms.

[joshdawg]

6. Absolutely correct, Cha.

foxspews is not news in any way, shape, or form. Simply misguided opinions by the performers in this farcical operation known as fox "news."
Viewers of this tripe are republicans who don't know their butt from a hole in the ground.................and proud of it.

[Honeycombe8]

4. Then they don't watch or read the news.

That info is all over the place. It's the #1 news circulating about it.

[mountain grammy]

5. Promises made, promises kept.. not so much.

[dembotoz]

8. Then we must tell them

[Orrex]

10. Why bother? They'll only blame it on Obama.

Wish I were joking...

[DURHAM D]

9. I doubt if 38% of the population even knows what Medicaid is.

I have an aunt in a nursing home who is on Medicaid. Her son, who does not take care of her finances, voted for Trump. When I tried to explain to him why that was not a good idea because Medicaid funding would likely be cut he calmly explained to me that his mother is on Medicare and has nothing to do with Medicaid. Yes, he is really stupid.

[FailureToCommunicate]

11. Yup.

[Stainless]

12. Big lies work very well on gullible, poorly educated people

About one third of the American voters are truly clueless, ignorant rubes who just don't understand that they have been systematically poorly educated, misinformed and misled into believing that corporate republican dogma is in their own best interest.

[Cosmocat]

15. 2/3

They 1/3 and the 1/3 who don't bother to vote or vote third party.

That "middle" third is just as problematic because they but the "they are both the same" bullshit, and tend to vote R when they do bother to show up.

[pangaia]

13. Poll shows 42% of Americans are unaware they are alive.

[Cryptoad]

23. + gazillion!

[DK504]

17. They refuse to watch anything but Fux

or liten to Rush Limpballs. My gym, despite the owner despising the Nacho Nazi, will not get CNN for the TV machines on the equipment.

Even those that disagree with these corrupt deviants are afraid to put on anything except what the rubes want.

[Mountain Mule]

18. Besides all the people they hate are on medicaid, so why should they care?

The disabled - let's not forget Trumpf mocking that disabled reporter - people whose skin color isn't pearly white; so-called "welfare queens;" the elderly in nursing homes who are sucking their blood dry with taxes that equal "slavery,' etc., etc., ad nauseum. I would love for them all to have to pay the price of their fixation with Fox and their blind adherence to a biggoted authority figure who couldn't care less about them. Alas, the rest of us will pay also.

[Volaris]

20. Then mitch mconnell was a success at his job this week, I guess.

I wonder if the idjits who voted for him know what he really thinks of them...

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

21. Willfully and gleefully ignorant

Intentionally and stubbornly stupid.

[muriel_volestrangler]

22. So everyone here need to inform them this week

and get them to say it's unacceptable, in public. So that Republican senators get scared.

[nini]

24. Well this is why distraction works so well

Keep telling them Pelosi is evil, Obama is Muslim, Liberals are baby killing devil worshipers - that's what is more important to them. Those little details of policy is too much to comprehend.

[Blue_true]

25. In some places, health care makes up far more than one sixth of the economy.

In my area, it makes up around 40% of the economy and service jobs based on it make up another 20-30% of the economy.

[ecstatic]

26. Those of you who know them--please tell them

in a way that will make them listen and absorb.

[KPN]

27. No frigging surprise there.

Most of that majority also voted for Trump.

[bagelsforbreakfast]

28. face it - it's gonna take a lot of PAIN to wake people up n/m

[nikibatts]

30. Same people, no doubt, who didn't know the ACA was "Obamacare."