There is a cute GOP trick afoot. Most won't know they will lose health care after the Nov. 3, 2026 midterm elections. Most of the dire cuts to Medicaid. CHIPS and Obamacare premium hikes will not take place until after the Congressional elections on November 3. 2026. Depending on the state, nearly 12 million of you will receive notification anywhere from Nov 1 to Dec 20, 2026, that individuals will lose your Medicaid-related insurance beginning Jan.1, 2027 (pre the Congressional Budget Office, not per the opinions expressed by the GOP mouths), and those on the ACA that your Obamacare premiums might have doubled or tripled. Before Nov. 3, 2026, some will begin to see nursing homes and rural hospitals close and ACA premiums rise as they anticiiipate their loss of income beginning Jan.1, 2027. The GOP has pulled a fast one on you to protect the reelection of their members of Congress from voter wrath. For sure, the fallout will be a reality, and the pain will be felt every time many get medical bills they cannot afford to pay on time for the 2028 presidential elections. The reality of Medicaid funding loss sets when it is too late to get mad at your congressperson for screwing you for voting for the "Big Beautiful Bill". You will have that much time, you get a notice to move Grandma out of a nursing home and take over her care expenses, too. 1.2 million nursing homes get Medicaid coverage. covering 60% of institutional costs, and it will cause many nursing homes to close their doors to the 40% of self-paying patients, as well. That's why it is so silly for Mitch McConnell to think that between then and November 2026 and November 2028, you, voters, are so gullible that nothing has happened, so you will forget they lost health insurance, and to be informed before in time you have a chance to vote your Congresspeople out. You will "get over it" McConnell claims. That is why J D Vance, VP, thinks you will be so happy with mass deportations funded in billions in the Big Beautiful Bill, cuts to your health insurance as an issue will be "immaterial" per USA Today. Your health care costs are "immaterial"? Are you really that easily fooled? You'll know who to blame, and it will not be an incumbent Democrat Senator or House member.
When We’ll See the Full Damage From Trump’s Megabill
Will it cost the GOP House in 2026. It could. Republicans just cut Medicaid. Will it cost them control of Congress?
Also slated for post 2026 are cuts to food stamps (SNAP) Medicaid, SNAP cuts not supposed to take effect until after 2026 U.S. midterm elections | Watch
Google AI: Medicaid is the primary payer for the majority of nursing home residents in the United States. Over 60% of nursing home residents rely on Medicaid to cover the costs of their care. This translates to roughly 1.2 million individuals who are Medicaid beneficiaries in nursing facilities, according to KFF. (That does not count the number of nursing homes that will go out of business and rural hospitals that
close so even paying patients will have to scramble to find new facilities or drive many miles to the nearest hospital.
In response to those who think cutting out waste and abuse of Medicaid will strengthen them,
There is no free lunch here...we will all be paying the price in some way...in heartbreak or in money. When a rural hospital closes, it affects far more than those on Medicaid. How do we know this? Because that is what happened before Medicaid and Obamacare. It is why both came into being. It affects the self-paying patients, also depriving them of timely and easy access to hospital care. It affects the families who have to take over the care at home of those who can no longer afford in nursing homes, because the nursing homes serving rural communities close. It affects all those employed in the closed hospitals and nursing homes who become unemployed. It can be a matter of life and death..with long and deadly ambulance rides, for those in a medical crisis.
What about those hospitals and nursing homes in both rural and urban America that survive, and the patients who use them, both who lose Medicaid and Obamacare, and those who do not and are still self-paying?. If non-paying patients reach the nearest hospital, they become a charity-funded case, covered by a shift of higher bills for paying patients to make up the difference. It means greater use of hospital emergency rooms, the most expensive form of primary care available, as sicker patients who delayed attention have to depend on them. If surgery, diagnosis, specialists are needed, and there is no money to pay for follow-up care, either the patient dies or they go bankrupt, and no one gets paid....the provider, the hospital, the doctors, or other creditors..
Expect MAGA-dominated states to do what Alaska did: demand supplemental federal aid or special carve-outs. In the federal budget. Expect the blue states to raise state and local taxes to cover the loss, partially..
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