Mitch McConnell is privately meeting with Republican senators, trying to buy their votes one private backroom meeting at a time. Never mind only 17% of voters nationwide approve of this tax cut scheme to end Medicaid—he’s plowing ahead, making slight revisions to the bill he wrote in a secret backroom with 12 of his Republican colleagues and an untold number of lobbyists from the insurance industry and Big Pharma. But how would McConnell’s version of Trumpcare affect his own constituents back in his home state of Kentucky? They would see some of the harshest effects, nearly tripling the number of uninsured residents.
Nearly tripling the number of uninsured people seems like a bad move for a state ranked:
How low will Mitch McConnell go? He’s willing to sell out his own constituents in the name of a tax cut for the 400 wealthiest families in the United States.
Looking at the map below, it seems the Southern United States as a whole seems is a heart attack waiting to happen.
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Southern Republican voters, be careful what you wish for. You may see yourself Making America Great Again, but 64% of nursing home residents are on Medicaid. Many of them were middle-class Southerners just like yourselves, who had to turn to Medicaid for assistance:
The 150 residents of Dogwood Village include former teachers, farmers, doctors, lawyers, stay-at-home parents and health aides — a cross section of this rural county a half-hour northeast of Charlottesville. Many entered old age solidly middle class but turned to Medicaid, which was once thought of as a government program exclusively for the poor, after exhausting their insurance and assets.
A combination of longer life spans and spiraling health care costs has left an estimated 64 percent of the Americans in nursing homes dependent on Medicaid. In Alaska, Mississippi and West Virginia, Medicaid was the primary payer for three-quarters or more of nursing home residents in 2015, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Once Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell finish off your Medicaid, your Social Security will be next on the chopping block.