Hospital Closure Shows Real Cost of $1.2 Trillion Medicaid Cuts - The Logical Leftist

[TexasTowelie]

When the only hospital in town shutters its doors, it forces people who supported policies like Trump's "big beautiful bill" to drive for hours just to access emergency care. This video highlights the real-world impact of Medicaid cuts, which some Republicans call "fiscal responsibility," but in reality, it's a detrimental policy directly affecting our healthcare system. The consequences of hospitals closing in rural areas are severe, stripping communities of vital access to healthcare and leaving residents vulnerable.

[OldBaldy1701E]

1. All by design.

They brainwashed the rural dwellers and got them to create their own destruction because the regime sees anyone who is not out there working themselves to an early grave for the regime as expendable and a waste of resources.

I am from a rural area, but that area is one of the reliably blue areas in that state. The rest seem hellbent on killing themselves just to 'own the libs'. The level of Dunning Kruger required to be that stupid, yet be convinced that they know better, is one that needs to be studied.

In a lab. Not in public where people's lives are at stake.

[Farmer-Rick]

2. It always amazes me to drive by a crumbling trailer

With a rusty pickup in the front yard that has pedo Trump paraphernalia on display.

As if the pedo protectors would ever try to help them out, ever. As if a lazy psychopath born into wealth and a criminal organization would look out for the interests of the elderly couple living inside the tiny trailer.

And these poor people regularly vote for the pedo without a second thought. The majority of people who live around me, well within 10 miles of my house, are past the age of 65. These are the people who use Medicare/Medicaid the most and need much more medical care than someone in their 40s.

And the person they voted for has ensured there is insufficient resources for them to get adequate health care. It's like when Raygun kicked everyone out of mental institutions and nursing homes. The people were forced onto the streets or jails if family couldn't house them. Our medical facilities for the mentally ill never recovered. They are still the worst in the world with outcomes much worse than other developed countries.

It will be decades before these closed hospitals will come back...if ever. Living in rural areas has now taken on another deadly hazard. Now, instead of just an insufficient power grid, local monopolized communications access and outrages pricing on all utilities, add to it failing medical access.

[NHvet]

4. They cling to him

because he gives them license to be who they are. He gave them permission to whine and cry about what others have done to them to get to the current place they are in life. Those that have and want to keep theirs stoke those with less grievances and direct thier ire onto those below them on the social rungs because their wanting better is keeping the one ahead on the ladder from getting more so they got to kick them down so they can climb higher. Oldest trick in the book to keep the 99% in line by the 1%

[OldBaldy1701E]

6. Just wait till the roving gangs start.

I don't know if you have seen 'Logan'. but there is a scene in it where he and Professor X are running from the Reavers and they have a run in with a farmer and his family who are trying to coral some escaped horses. They are invited to join the family for dinner and a place to sleep for the night. While they are there, the lights and water start to mess up and the farmer has to go check the power plant, which is a short distance away from the house. While there, two trucks of dudes show up and try to intimidate the guy. They point out that 'they are the law out here'.

I expect something like this to start happening. Farmers being run out of the area so that larger farms can take over while the little guy has no options.

Hell, just wait till the Farming Guild starts up. Then, we get to slowly starve while they hold up distribution in the name of extortion. (I mean, since we city dwellers cannot grow food thanks to HOAs and other ordinances.)

Nothing better than out of control capitalism, eh? Especially in a dying culture.

[markodochartaigh]

3. In rural Texas in the 80's

the tiny hospitals in small towns started closing. They were often the largest local employers. Closing those hospitals was one more nail in the coffin for those dying towns. Losing those jobs meant that working class families could not afford to stay in the communities. And property values fell since most people wanted to sell their homes when they left but no one was moving into those towns without jobs.

[surfered]

5. It was foreseeable, predicted, and argued against, but MAGA voted to cut Medicaid funding anyway.