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Zorro

(18,319 posts)
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 07:22 AM Jun 2025

In West Virginia, Medicaid is a lifeline. GOP cuts could devastate the state.

GOP states are particularly reliant on a program that President Donald Trump and other Republicans have targeted for deep spending reductions.

Hampshire Memorial Hospital is nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains, past more than 20 miles of winding mountain roads dotted with lush trees and ridges. It is the only hospital for a county that spans 645 square miles and, for many of its 24,000 residents, is the sole option for health care ranging from routine ailments to life-threatening emergencies.

Like every rural hospital in West Virginia, Hampshire Memorial relies deeply on Medicaid, the government health insurance program for the poor that covers about one-third of residents in this deep-red state. But its ability to continue treating Hampshire County — among the poorer and sicker counties in the country — has been thrown into doubt by President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package that he has said he wants on his desk by July 4.

The proposal, which passed the House last month, proposes codifying trillions of dollars in tax cuts from Trump’s first term that primarily benefit the wealthy, along with hundreds of billions of dollars of new spending on immigration enforcement and national defense. It proposes paying for those items largely by slashing Medicaid, which, if passed, would mark the biggest cut in the program’s nearly 60-year history.

During negotiations in the House, Trump warned Republicans in a closed-door meeting: “Don’t f--- around with Medicaid.” But Trump and his aides have been uneven and often contradictory in their promises, sometimes arguing that Medicaid benefits are safe while “waste, fraud and abuse” were not. But the House version of the bill does not make such distinctions while calling for nearly $800 billion in cuts to the program.

https://wapo.st/3ZIyewR

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In West Virginia, Medicaid is a lifeline. GOP cuts could devastate the state. (Original Post) Zorro Jun 2025 OP
OhNoAnyway hatrack Jun 2025 #1
Sometimes you get what you vote for. Lonestarblue Jun 2025 #2
West Virginia and other RED states will rue the day they voted REPUBLICAN!!! ProudMNDemocrat Jun 2025 #3
Yet West virginians will never hear an echo chamber telling them it was REPUBLICANS that did this to them. BComplex Jun 2025 #4
Nah Polybius Jun 2025 #16
FAFO Trump vote 69.97%. Harris vote 28.10%. For the state of W.V. Botany Jun 2025 #5
522,000 children and adults are enrolled in West Virginia Medicaid. Snarkoleptic Jun 2025 #6
Welp. That's what 70% of them voted for. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #7
I grieve for the kids, they had no choice. irisblue Jun 2025 #8
And? atreides1 Jun 2025 #9
How WV went red Zambero Jun 2025 #10
Manufacturing jobs and mining jobs went away, and the Unions went with it. It all doc03 Jun 2025 #12
The WV Governor declared a disaster from the flooding last week, where ten people died doc03 Jun 2025 #11
Something about bootstraps. Norrrm Jun 2025 #15
The Fascist Felon wants to kill FEMA. Dulcinea Jun 2025 #18
Longer-term, it will definitely take a toll. Shorter term, the cut is roughly 5% and likely won't close hospitals for Silent Type Jun 2025 #13
Yep lots of these are timebombs IbogaProject Jun 2025 #21
I guess the buckboard-and-horse postal system didn't get the message up to Squalor Holler that Trump Aristus Jun 2025 #14
Easy fix! Mysterian Jun 2025 #17
We already do bif Jun 2025 #19
But, if the goal is population reduction, it should work very well. MineralMan Jun 2025 #20
They can thank Manchin for his help in trashing all social aide. Jit423 Jun 2025 #22
I have absolutely zero sympathy for those who voted for him and had this happen dsc Jun 2025 #23
Many states in the same sinking ship boat. Evolve Dammit Jun 2025 #24
That's what those people mostly vote for. Crunchy Frog Jun 2025 #25
Sucks to be them. Sorry not sorry. (Unless you voted Blue) OrlandoDem2 Jun 2025 #26
you have to wonder what it would take to snap these red state voters out of their delusions Skittles Jun 2025 #27
I live in a rural area in a red state. Cuts to Medicaid Emile Jun 2025 #28
I'm so sorry. That is a frightening prospect. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #29
Hillary had hundreds of clean energy companies' pledges to open offices in the coal and rust belt. Scrivener7 Jun 2025 #30
Oh well fujiyamasan Jun 2025 #31

Lonestarblue

(13,198 posts)
2. Sometimes you get what you vote for.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 07:28 AM
Jun 2025

Every West Virginia voter should have known that Trump us a serial liar who makes big promises to improve their lives but never delivers. The same can be said for Republicans.

ProudMNDemocrat

(20,568 posts)
3. West Virginia and other RED states will rue the day they voted REPUBLICAN!!!
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 07:30 AM
Jun 2025

All because they have been brainwashed into thinking that what the Democrats propose is BAD and they do not want "SOCIALISM". These people in these states will be poor, they will die from lack of health care services, be unable to afford the basics to live, but at least they will be FREE to do so.

STUPID thinking if I may say so.

BComplex

(9,734 posts)
4. Yet West virginians will never hear an echo chamber telling them it was REPUBLICANS that did this to them.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 07:34 AM
Jun 2025

That echo chamber is reserved for telling people how great the republicans are.

Botany

(76,258 posts)
5. FAFO Trump vote 69.97%. Harris vote 28.10%. For the state of W.V.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 07:36 AM
Jun 2025

Hampshire County Was 80% Trump and 18% Harris

Face eating leopards. Burp!



Potomac River? Lots of leopards along the river.







Snarkoleptic

(6,209 posts)
6. 522,000 children and adults are enrolled in West Virginia Medicaid.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 07:52 AM
Jun 2025

Dying to own the libs is very on-brand for magats.

Numbers for other States here-
https://www.kff.org/interactive/medicaid-state-fact-sheets/

Zambero

(9,915 posts)
10. How WV went red
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 08:30 AM
Jun 2025

A lot of fools resented being called fools for voting for a party whose policies are in direct opposition to their well-being. So they double down by continue their foolishness, recruiting others into a steady march off the economic cliff, all to the tune of the culture wars boogie.

doc03

(38,787 posts)
12. Manufacturing jobs and mining jobs went away, and the Unions went with it. It all
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 09:50 AM
Jun 2025

goes back to RR making the US into a service economy and of course NAFTA.

doc03

(38,787 posts)
11. The WV Governor declared a disaster from the flooding last week, where ten people died
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 09:46 AM
Jun 2025

near Wheeling. Maybe I missed it, but I have not heard a peep about it from Trump or anything about FEMA.

Dulcinea

(9,605 posts)
18. The Fascist Felon wants to kill FEMA.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 11:47 AM
Jun 2025

Too bad, so sad, West Virginia. You get nothing. Billionaires get everything.

 

Silent Type

(12,412 posts)
13. Longer-term, it will definitely take a toll. Shorter term, the cut is roughly 5% and likely won't close hospitals for
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 09:52 AM
Jun 2025

several years.

Most provisions wouldn't start until Oct 31, 2026 at earliest and many start later. For example, work requirements might begin as late as Jan 1. 2028, rather than 2027, in certain instances.

GOPers, unfortunately, won't respond negatively until they actually feel it. That will likely be after midterms. A big chunk of GOPers won't care at all.
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https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/
https://www.manatt.com/insights/newsletters/health-highlights/how-the-senate-reconciliation-bill-would-impact-health-care

IbogaProject

(5,565 posts)
21. Yep lots of these are timebombs
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 05:07 PM
Jun 2025

Just like the real tax time bombs that hit this tax year and the big tax cliff on the middle class set to hit for the 2027 tax year to make the rubes angry next election years.

Aristus

(71,544 posts)
14. I guess the buckboard-and-horse postal system didn't get the message up to Squalor Holler that Trump
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 09:54 AM
Jun 2025

is going to cut Medicaid.

"Rub some dirt on it, and walk off the pain" is a home remedy the Clampetts had better get used to hearing.

Elections have consequences...

Mysterian

(6,148 posts)
17. Easy fix!
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 11:45 AM
Jun 2025

They will make an exeption for West Virginia and make blue states pay for it. That's the plan moving forward. Make blue states pay for everything.

MineralMan

(150,526 posts)
20. But, if the goal is population reduction, it should work very well.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 12:32 PM
Jun 2025

Think about that. Add in the withholding of vaccine development and other cut-backs, and you can see how it is designed to work.

And who is most effected? The poor, as always.

We all need to be considering that possibility as an operational motive for the "Righteous Right."

dsc

(53,308 posts)
23. I have absolutely zero sympathy for those who voted for him and had this happen
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 05:24 PM
Jun 2025

They richly deserve every last bit of it.

Crunchy Frog

(28,211 posts)
25. That's what those people mostly vote for.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 06:25 PM
Jun 2025

I can't really feel too badly for most of them.

Skittles

(169,263 posts)
27. you have to wonder what it would take to snap these red state voters out of their delusions
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 06:30 PM
Jun 2025

ya know?

Emile

(40,327 posts)
28. I live in a rural area in a red state. Cuts to Medicaid
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 06:33 PM
Jun 2025

could end up closing the doors of our little hospital.

Scrivener7

(58,153 posts)
30. Hillary had hundreds of clean energy companies' pledges to open offices in the coal and rust belt.
Mon Jun 23, 2025, 06:37 PM
Jun 2025

WV would have been a mecca.

They preferred the guy who told them their racism and sexism were just peachy.

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