What Tr__P’s BBB is Going to Do to Those Who Can Least Afford What is Going to Happen . . .
I do not see much commotion about this occurring. It is almost like an “oh well” moment as people sit back and wait for it to happen.
Yesterday, I gave readers a table of contents for three separate posts as itemized here: “Rural Hospitals at Risk of Closing,” Angry Bear. The prior sentence listing the location of the commentaries which can be accessed with a click on “Angry” Bear link above. If you really wish to know what will happen with healthcare in rural areas, take 16 minutes and read. Ok, maybe it will take 20 minutes.
We are at the edge of the abyss waiting for the shove by Tr__mp and his congressional sycophant’s. As written earlier by others and posted at Angry Bear, an ~ 16 million citizens (and probably greater) will lose access to healthcare. All of this to fund tax breaks for an upper income bracket. The top 1 percent of which makes >~$ 3.3 million annually and consists of ~ 1.6 million taxpayers.
I am babbling on too much right now. Let’s see what Paul Krugman has to say this morning. As taken from Krugman’s latest:
“The Coming Health Care Apocalypse,” Paul Krugman
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities has estimates based on Congressional Budget Office analysis of the House plan, plus refusal to retain enhancements that took place during the Biden years. Once the Senate gets done with it, the plan might be even worse. Also, some independent analysts believe the CBO is understating the likely coverage losses. But anyway, here are the CBPP numbers:
Source: Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
What I find, however, is that I need a way to put 16 million people losing insurance coverage in perspective. So here’s one way: 16 million people is about 6 percent of the population too young for Medicare, so if we add this to the current level of uninsurance we get this:
AB: The uninsured or under-insured almost doubles by 2034.
Basically, we’re talking about undoing all the progress America has made in expanding health insurance. And as I said, many independent analysts believe it could be substantially worse.
Remember, this isn’t happening to save money:
If Republicans cared about the deficit, they could forego those tax cuts. It isn’t happening by popular demand: the Big Beautiful Bill is extremely unpopular already, and will become even more unpopular once people see its effects.
It’s happening because our government has been taken over by fanatics who believe, one way or another, they can escape the electoral consequences of making millions of Americans’ lives much, much worse.
AB: I do not hear or read much commotion about these takings. And the chicken-shit Republicans in Congress are letting helping Tr__p do it.
