To Fund Tax Cuts for the Rich, GOP Budget Bill Would Take "Sledgehammer" to Healthcare for Millions

[Uncle Joe]

Senate lawmakers are debating President Trump's 940-page so-called big, beautiful bill as Republicans race to meet a Trump-imposed July 4 deadline and are set to vote on key amendments. Senate Republicans have deepened the cuts to Medicaid while cutting taxes for the wealthy and increasing the national deficit. "Basically, you have Republicans taking food and medicine and other things away from vulnerable people in order to finance tax cuts for the rich," says David Dayen, executive editor of The American Prospect.

Dr. Adam Gaffney, a critical care physician and professor at Harvard Medical School, co-authored a report that found the bill could lead to 1.3 million Americans going without medications, 1.2 million Americans being saddled with medical debt, 380,000 women going without mammograms, and over 16,500 deaths annually. "I work in the ICU. I see patients with life-threatening complications of untreated illness because they didn't get care because they couldn't afford it. What happens when we add to that number massively?" says Gaffney.

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[Deuxcents]

1. What would the budget look like without the tax cuts?

[Uncle Joe]

2. From what I can tell, the tax cuts alone will cost anywhere from 4 to 11 trillion dollars over 10 years

The budget deficit from the bill over the next decade is expected to be 2.4-3.3 trillion.

[Deuxcents]

3. Yes..I looked it up. Think about how this country would be so different with aging water systems upgraded

Our medical and scientific researchers could solve so many issues, our much needed infrastructure would be upgraded. We would be healthier, better educated. Those benefitting from these tax breaks would still be making more money than they can spend but it would not be at the expense of our children, very ill or the elderly. This is soo ass backwards and their tactics and hard fought race to get this jammed thru is the real stabbing in the heart of America.

[Uncle Joe]

4. They have a dead end vision for the world, not a sustainable, regenerative one

So everything they do is about "culling the herd."

[Deuxcents]

5. That mentality is foreign to me..it's always been to improve, advance, make things better for the next generation

They must know they can’t take it with them..wherever they think they’re going in the afterlife.

[Uncle Joe]

6. I believe their mentality has been forged by quarterly profit,

not so much long term thinking or true belief.

If they had faith, *rump would never have descended to power.

[Deuxcents]

7. True that. I'm glad I lived in the window of time that I did. My parents were veterans and believed in the dream

As did I and passed it on but I worry for my grandkids who are now getting ready to make their own mark.