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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsI just learned that Donald Trump is proposing cuts in Medicaid.
We need to ask low income social conservatives what is important to them. Being able to pay their medical bills or being concerned about Donald and Michael getting Married? We should also remind them that they are losing medicaid benefits to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
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I just learned that Donald Trump is proposing cuts in Medicaid. (Original Post)
nkpolitics1212
May 2017
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WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)1. I'm pretty sure Congressional Democrats will be saying this ASAP!
DesertRat
(27,995 posts)2. Yes. 60% of all people who are served by Medicaid are working
enough
(13,255 posts)3. Medical bills, and long term care for their elderly parents, or themselves. NT
Eliot Rosewater
(31,106 posts)4. GOP wants to harm or kill as many of us as they can.
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)5. But, but.....freedom!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Bill_of_Rights
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men.[3] People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.