The Trump administration's cruelty knows no limits. Here's the latest.

[Zorro]

When President Trump and Republicans in Congress failed in their 2017 attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, it was in no small part because repeal would have wiped away the ACA’s expansion of Medicaid. They probably believed that it wouldn’t be such a big deal. After all, it’s a program for poor people, right? Who cares about them?

What they found out, through an outpouring of protests and angry responses from constituents, was that Americans care quite a bit about Medicaid. There are now more than 71 million people on Medicaid and its subsidiary, the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). Medicaid is overwhelmingly popular, and nearly all of its recipients like it.

Repealing the ACA would have kicked 15.4 million Americans off their Medicaid and CHIP coverage, according to one analysis. And when they couldn’t do it through legislation, the administration supported a preposterous lawsuit filed by Republican-led states in hopes that the Supreme Court would do it for them (it’s still pending).

But failures and delays have not quenched the Republican thirst to kick people off Medicaid. So Wednesday, the administration announced that it is allowing any states that want — i.e., states run by Republicans — to take a sledgehammer to Medicaid.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/29/trump-administrations-cruelty-knows-no-limits-heres-latest/

[lark]

1. Why doesn't he do the whole world a favor and move to Russia, where they like him?

Karma, please come now and take out the orange buffoon who is purposefully trying to destroy our country & all the liberal Democracies for the benefit of Russia and oligarchs everywhere.

[CaptYossarian]

3. He'll never leave here. He thinks he's in charge because his boss says so.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

2. A lot of widowed

mothers rely on Medicaid to pay their nursing home costs.
Without it they would be out on the streets. My mother was one.
Medicare paid her medical bills.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

4. Recently someone posted this:

"We don't actually have a government. We have a cult of grievance, orchestrated by a cable news network for bitter, angry, white bigots with a cruelty streak."

I printed that out and stuck it on the bulletin board. It typifies the reality of our current upside down country.

(Italics - mine)

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[appalachiablue]

6. Good one, resentment is huge there