https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

• Requires states to conduct eligibility redeterminations at least every 6 months for Medicaid expansion adults.

I’m on Medicaid currently because I’m on SSDI. I have to recertify my eligibility every year. It takes the local office 4-5 months to make the determination. A LOT of people are going to get left behind if this happens. Local offices will never be able to keep up and people are going to lose coverage.

Those of us on the bottom of society that have to utilize the safety net already had to go through hell to get approved in the first place in most cases. These assholes lack empathy completely because they’ve never had to utilize the safety net and think we’re lying or something about needing it.

If you’re in the U.S. and have never needed any kind of government assistance, let me clarify the process a bit:

• Imagine you’re on a plane and you have to jump out with a parachute to get to safety. That’s scary.
• Just before you jump, you’re told you have to charge up the parachute release by free falling through rings in the sky. That are on fire.
• You make it through all the rings of fiery death and your parachute doesn’t open because it didn’t charge up the release for some reason (why would it, in what world does it make sense to have to do that?)
• As you’re falling you see what looks to be like a bouncy house on the ground. Lucky for you there’s a safety net halfway between you and the ground.
• The safety net has a tiny tear in it and as you fall into the net the tear becomes a split down the entire net and you continue falling.
• Bracing for impact into the bouncy house you can see it’s starting to sag a little. Is it leaking air? Will you make it in time before the air is completely out?
• The bouncy house had enough air to keep you safe thankfully and you never touch the ground until the air completely deflates from the bouncy house.
• Oh but wait…you’ve been on solid ground for a year? Nope, you’re going to repeat the process only this time instead of a bunch of rings of fire you only have to go through one. But there’s no safety net…and no parachute. Just the ring of fire and the slowly leaking bouncy house on the “ground”.

They’re not taking Medicaid away, they’re just purposefully making it harder to keep it. So technically they didn’t “cut” Medicaid. Because, after all, Trump didn’t lie when he said Medicaid and Social Security were off the table, right?

I learned my lesson about “lifetime” thanks to SiriusXM.

When Howard Stern got lured to SiriusXM they offered a deal where you buy the receiver and pay $500 for a lifetime subscription with unlimited transfers to different receivers. Fat forward to 2017ish when I bought my last car that had the receiver built into the radio and tried to transfer to the new one. I was told that was the last time I would be able to do that and in the future I’d be paying a $75 transfer fee and be forced into a monthly subscription.

Lifetime is a hoax.

This makes me feel old, but not as much as realizing I’m less than 10 years from senior discounts

I’d like to say I don’t understand what you’re going through.

I’m a 3x attempt survivor, disabled, and terrified. I’m on SSDI, Medicare/Medicaid, and in HUD housing. My situation is not the same but I see you.

I wish there was more I could offer, but you are not alone.

As a nearly 50 year old dude, never heard of it either

Ok, so does this kick off WW3 or are other nations just going to roll over and allow this to happen?

How the hell is this even a plausible timeline we’re living in?

Oh hey! I narrowly avoided this one. No SNAP here (yet)! Only SSDI, Medicaid/Medicare, and HUD housing 🤨

I’m sober for 9 months.

When I did drink it was to escape, which is the real reason most alcoholics become alcoholics

And Schumer will send another strongly worded letter.

Freaking ass had the chance to alter history potentially and he fucked it up.

Took me D_C’s comment to get it and even then it took me a minute to find the marshmallow and realize it wasn’t on the plate anymore 🤦🏻

I’m an alcoholic, definitely makes me more depressed.

Me: Doc, I’m in constant pain, my lower back is killing me, my hips are killing me, and random parts of my body go numb or twitch and randomly hurt for no rhyme or reason.

Doc: You need to lose weight and see a therapist, this is most likely depression and anxiety.

Therapist: Yes, you have depression and anxiety, but the 7 years of therapy you’ve had shows it’s not just anxiety or depression causing this, advocate for yourself.

Friend: Have you tried yoga?

I once worked at a retail job where at one time I had to work the 7AM shift. I get there and I’m the only male and all three of the female coworkers were pregnant.

I learned more about the female body than any single man should ever know.

9. Every day.

Wait…. Did I miss something? What’s going on in South Africa that we take on refugees? Shouldn’t we be, I dunno, accepting refugees from Gaza and Ukraine instead?

DEI and “woke culture” made me feel seen as a person with a disability and a facial paralysis. 100 years ago I would have been an orphan and hidden away. Not long before that I would have been “sacrificed” as an evil baby.

Did corporations cash in on that? Yes they did because that’s all corporations are supposed to do is make money and bleed the consumer.

If you are anti-woke and anti-DEI then you’re really saying you want to include everyone who looks like you and relegate those who don’t to obscurity either by way of deportation, exile, slavery, or death. It’s exactly like what every country perpetuating genocide has done in history.

What is your solution to my problem of again not feeling like I can go out in public because of this administration’s policies. What about to the LGBTQIA people who are afraid that their marriage will be nulled or are also afraid to go out in public?

Are you ok with fixing people different from you back to isolation, declining mental health, and attempts to take their life because of getting rid of DEI?

Someone has got to start talking about “inclusion” instead of division

You know what…I’d rather live in the Looney Toons universe over whatever the hellscape we’re living in now is.

Also I seriously want to visit an arcade now.

Stairway to Heaven / Highway to Hell

I agree with your version of entering hell being a trap door. Heaven would look like an alien abduction.

I think that’s very subjective to each person doing the recommending and also the person wanting said recommendations preferences.