AND MEDICAID HITS THE DIRT

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At least it will if our president, senate and house of representatives have anything to do with it.

President Trump's "Big, Beautiful (not) Bill" is on the verge of passage in the U.S. Senate and U.S. House of Representatives. And to be sure, I am a registered Republican, but I deplore what is currently "going on" with congress's "Just get in line and march off a cliff like lemmings mentality."

Millions of Medicaid recipients will lose their coverage on the backs of tax cuts for the mega-rich. It just "ain't" right. (Not only so, but as a result of the passage of this bill, trillions will be added to the national debt).

And I don't approach this travesty from a strictly objective sense. (No, I'm don't.) I have a mentally ill, borderline retarded daughter who has lived in an assisted living environment for 30 plus years. She desperately needs Medicaid to continue as is, and uninterrupted.

I am currently emailing all the Republican members of the Senate, and I have previously emailed members of the House of Representatives; reminding them that the 70 million people in the U.S. who depend on Medicaid, and their families, will remember their vote when the next election cycle comes up.

When you "have a name in the game", (such as my own daughter), this matter takes on a whole different perspective. This administration previously discontinued the USAID program; which has led to thousands of unnecessary deaths overseas. The drastic monetary cuts which are the basis of the Not So Beautiful Big Bill will lead to the closure of numerous nursing homes, hospitals, and assisted living facilities, and the deaths of countless elderly and disabled persons in THIS country.

**Please call, write or email your senators and members of the house of representatives, and do as I have done, and will continue to do. (And please don't tell me it isn't remotely the way I have described it. Medicaid was chosen for drastic budget cuts simply because it was the "handiest dandiest" item to cut; given the size of its annual expenditures).

by Bill McDonald, PhD