R's slip "MEDICAID COST SHARING" (some recipients would be forced to pay for coverage) into "BIG BEAUTIFUL B.S. BILL"

[Miles Archer]

Top House Republicans were caught off guard by some of the provisions in their massive budget bill as the process to get it ready for passage began, Politico reported on Wednesday.

The bill, which is meant to gather up all of President Donald Trump's priorities on tax cuts, energy deregulation, and border security, is jam-packed with a number of controversial proposals, like $600 billion in cuts to Medicaid, all while projected to massively increase the federal deficit to permanently extend tax cuts that flow mostly to the rich.

Senior officials on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, according to the report, were "16 hours into a nearly 27-hour markup when it became clear that top Republicans on the panel weren’t clear on what key Medicaid provisions in the legislation they were actively debating would actually do."

Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers in swing districts expressed confusion about exactly how the proposed Medicaid work requirements would function, and a number of them were particularly alarmed at a proposal that would impose cost-sharing on some Medicaid recipients, forcing them to pay for the coverage.

https://www.rawstory.com/gop-bill-2672020357/

[Walleye]

1. The people in charge now cannot begin to understand what it's like to be actually poor and not be able to afford things

They are just trying to get these people sick. And if the poor people die, that’s a win for these guys. Damn, who knew that billionaires could be so fucking stingy, tightwads and cheapskates.

[Miles Archer]

3. I knew a "rich guy" (never knew his full net worth) in Silicon Valley...

...an older guy, I guess maybe somewhere in his mid-to-late seventies.

He owned a chain of small supermarkets. He had money. A lot of money.

We were talking about spaghetti one day (we were both in Sons Of Italy). I told him that I liked DeCicco but also bought Barilla because it was cheaper.

He told me he bought Golden Grain because it was 20 cents cheaper per box than Barilla.

For the record, if you have even a passing interest in "al dente pasta," you cannot cook Golden Grain to a consistency firmer than mush, unless you half-cook it, and like crunchy, half raw pasta.

This dude could have bought his own spaghetti factory, he was Italian like me, and he was OK with eating the worst commercially available spaghetti on the market in order to save 20 cents per box.

He passed away about a year after we had that conversation.

[msongs]

2. meanwhile gov newsom wants to charge $100 a month to undoc. immigrants