Remember When the Republicans Denied Medicaid Cuts?

For the uninitiated, it has been known since 2024 that the Republicans would target Medicaid to pay for 4.5 trillion dollars in tax cuts for the wealthiest .01% of Americans.They have denied this ploy of course, because they lie every day about everything. The CBO reports that the impact of their action will be dramatic, and devastating. 8. 6 million Americans will have no health insurance because of $880 Billion in cuts over the next decade. Many of these citizens are children, some are disabled, none will be able to afford health insurance any other way.

I want to acknowledge that this is the fifth time that I have brought these facts to the attention of the public.I can also say that many of my detractors, in the starkest terms, have denied that this was even possible. Well it is possible, and the Speaker, bless his heart, has finally been led to admit what has long been denied. The GOP is going all in on cutting healthcare for children.

There is no reason for this! We can afford to provide healthcare to every American, every other industrialized nation is capable. Why should we be any different?

And once again I am going to say that children in America will be injured. Some will die because of infectious disease, poor nutrition, cancer , cardiac disease, and a variety of other modern scourges that can be treated.

It is not reasonable for the US to consider itself at this juncture to be any better than a third world country. A nation that would deny healthcare to the least of us, while millions live in abject poverty, and a few own more than half the world and flaunt it is truly disgusting.

Rae Brown, M.D.

A Voice for Children