It looks like the GOP is postponing its phaseout of Medicare until later next year. And of course we need an all-hands-on-deck effort to stop them.
But Medicaid is much more vulnerable, since not enough of the poor vote and since even the Democrats refuse to address, even allude to the fact that we’ve got what–48 million Americans living in poverty. . . even by the extremely stringent federal definition of what constitutes poverty.
And let’s be clear about one thing: when Paul Ryan and his henchmen begin their immoral, evil crusade to deny health care to as many Americans as possible, it might be nice to remind them of the service public hospitals and Medicaid provide our country.
Have any of the millionaires and billionaires who’ve got public health in their rifle sights ever been to a public hospital? Doubtful.
My mother was a cytotechnologist at Bellevue/NYU from 1988 until she retired in 2004, and I know it well.
Does anyone in the Trump gang know or care, for example, that Bellevue is now treating double the number of patients it was before the rash of NYC hospital closings? And WITHOUT any additional medical staff.
Perhaps if the Democrats talked more about the plight of the poor, more would start voting for them.