• LoafedBurrito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    Yeah thousands of people will be murdered by the administration due to their horrible decisions.

    EVERY SINGLE AMERICAN knows someone affected by cancer. Cancer causes keep increases as well as the types of cancers. By stopping the research into them for the majority of the population, what benefit does that give us?!?

    I would love to hear the thought process behind killing Americans to give billionaires more money.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      14 hours ago

      I am very likely to be one of those deaths when the Medicaid rules change on January 1st, 2027.

      Washington state minimum wage is pretty high and increases based on cost of living every year. The income cutoff for Medicaid is pretty low.

      I will have to be working at least 20 hours a week in 2027, and there’s a significant chance that in doing so I will end up making more than the Medicaid limit and be forced to pay for health insurance that won’t cover nearly as much of the $18k a month without insurance meds that I very likely may have to take for the rest of my life to stay alive.

      To not have to do this I would need to give up working and apply for disability. Even though I have cancer I would need legal disability status to avoid the work requirements since I don’t have children. Even though I am in my forties I am considered one of those “able bodied young men abusing Medicaid to stay home playing video games.”

      It’s fucking sickening and I am furious about it.

      • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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        18 hours ago

        I think that’s a fairly small part of it. There were two big things that happened:

        1. Scientists were able to show that the HPV vaccine prevents cervical cancer. This gets rid of the treatment/cure payment thing entirely.
        2. Air pollution turned out to be a lot more harmful than people realized, which means that there’s a much stronger reason to get rid of combustion as a routine thing that happens, and Trump’s bribe-payers would be out a really huge amount of money if that happened.