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PeaceWave

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Wed Feb 18, 2026, 11:54 PM Feb 18

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This message was self-deleted by its author (Original Post) PeaceWave Feb 18 OP
That sure went away n/t leftstreet Feb 19 #1
That's just it. It couldn't have just went away... PeaceWave Feb 19 #4
Well, I'm on Medicaid--- so I won't actually lose insurance until the end of the year Jack Valentino Feb 19 #2
They just quietly lose any insurance that they had and hope for the best. Klarkashton Feb 19 #3
Basically zero coverage of this SamuelTheThird Feb 19 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Feb 19 #7
We'll never get an accurate number from this admin. BigmanPigman Feb 19 #6

leftstreet

(40,253 posts)
1. That sure went away n/t
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 12:02 AM
Feb 19

PeaceWave

(3,230 posts)
4. That's just it. It couldn't have just went away...
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 01:48 AM
Feb 19

Even the revised numbers that were thrown about suggested that somewhere between 2 and 5 million people could lose their health insurance. How is that not a daily conversation?

Jack Valentino

(4,887 posts)
2. Well, I'm on Medicaid--- so I won't actually lose insurance until the end of the year
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 12:08 AM
Feb 19

at the age of 64, because of Trump's "Big Bastard Bill" and 'work requirements'
which I don't expect to be able to fulfill, and even if I did---
the required 20 hours would put me over the income limits,
so I will LOSE those benefits even if I DID "get back to work, old man!"

since I decided to take a small Social Security benefit at age 62,
also taking my SNAP benefits into account in that decision--- just before the anti-christ took office---
since I never suspected that THOSE benefits would be cut off
(but guess I SHOULD have, considering GQP ideology!)


Trump and the Republicans are kicking undocumented labor out of the country,
and are attempting to replace that labor with 'old people'---
some of them have even SAID that specifically---!

thus raising the age for 'work requirements' for SNAP and MEDICAID
from age 54 to age 64, in their 'big beautiful BASTARD bill'
while they instead give welfare to Billionaires!!!!


FRANCE had the right idea 1789-1793-ish






Klarkashton

(5,241 posts)
3. They just quietly lose any insurance that they had and hope for the best.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 12:37 AM
Feb 19

SamuelTheThird

(988 posts)
5. Basically zero coverage of this
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:04 AM
Feb 19

Implicit in that is that you're dispensible, or just disposable

Response to SamuelTheThird (Reply #5)

BigmanPigman

(55,033 posts)
6. We'll never get an accurate number from this admin.
Thu Feb 19, 2026, 05:54 AM
Feb 19
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