Poll: With More Than Half the Public Saying They or a Family Member Have Been Covered by Medicaid, Large Majorities Don’t Want Cuts, Including Most Trump Voters and Rural Residents.
Poll: With More Than Half the Public Saying They or a Family Member Have Been Covered by Medicaid, Large Majorities Don’t Want Cuts, Including Most Trump Voters and Rural Residents.
As Congress considers changes to the Medicaid program as part of the budget debate, relatively few (17%) in the public say they want to see a reduction in Medicaid spending, with larger shares saying they want spending to stay about the same (40%) or increase (42%), a new KFF Health Tracking Poll fi...
Most Support Adding Work Requirements to Medicaid, but Views Shift with Arguments Made for and Against
Damn, they really should have thought of that, huh
I'm ready for it to get much much worse so i can actually enjoy the stories of people saying they regret their choice. It's not nearly bad enough yet.
It will have to get really bad before people actually say it out loud. There are probably already a significant number of people who are thinking it, but to actually admit they were wrong or shortsighted?
The American conservative machine is built on always doubling down, never admitting you're wrong, never conceding, and never expressing doubts. Admitting you're wrong is "losing." They might vote in accordance with the belief that they were wrong (though more likely they'll just stay home), but they won't say it out loud.
By this point, it's clear that it's foolishly optimistic to assume they'll think of it in the next election, either. Fox News will spend the next year bleaching any memory of it from their brains.
If President Musk, who PROMISED to Cut my Medicaid, CUTS my Medicaid it's JOE BIDENS FAULT!
I'm new to lemmy, so I dont know the correct community, but c/leopardsatemyface
I think [email protected] is the most popular. Community links here are in the form of !communityname@hostinstance
The only poll that matters is how people vote on election day.
A work requirement would be particularly perverse. It just further normalizes employers paying shit wages and providing little or no benefits, with programs like medicaid and snap making up the difference. It's an indirect subsidy that only makes it easier to keep wages low.
Maybe we should do the opposite and tax businesses that pay low enough wages for their employees to qualify for assistance. Although, we'd probably get more results by instituting an income inequality tax that increases based on the difference in total compensation between the highest and lowest paid employees. Make it so that the only way executives can increase their own pay is by paying their employees well too.
face-eating leopard sounds intensity
As they said after brexit, you won, get over it
It's not enough for conservatives to win. They want to rub your face in it. Make you bend the knee and kiss the ring.
This is about flexing power and influence and not about politicking.
And their base absolutely eats it up.