Seems like a real winner.
- Cause 17 million Americans to lose healthcare
- Make the largest-ever cuts to Medicaid and Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamp) benefits
- Cause the closure of nursing homes and rural hospitals across the United States
- Hike housing, healthcare, and energy costs
- Supercharge Trump’s authoritarian anti-immigrant agenda
- Deliver massive new tax benefits for the wealthiest Americans, while increasing costs and taxes for the working class
- Add $3.4 trillion to the nation's debt over the next decade
When you actually sit down and read the Big Beautiful Bill—the one they’re calling “cuts to Medicaid”—you’ll realize every Democrat and every mainstream media hack is lying straight through their teeth.
No normal American would be against any of this. Let’s break it down:
𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏: Saves $35 billion over 10 years by limiting federal health program eligibility based on citizenship status.
Translation? If you’re here illegally, you don’t get Medicaid. Simple.
And funny enough, they keep telling us that’s not happening anyway—so you should agree with this one by default, because no illegal is receiving benefits, right?
𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟐: Saves $42 billion by cutting “Medicare coverage of bad debt.”
Not sure what that is? Let me explain.
Say you’ve got private health insurance. They pay their part, and then you’re left with your portion. If you don’t pay it, that’s bad debt.
Now, private insurance won’t cover that, obviously. But if you’re on Medicaid? The government—meaning you, the taxpayer—covers up to 65% of that unpaid balance.
Hospitals exploit this by jacking up prices for Medicaid patients, knowing the gov will foot the bill. This cut says: “Yeah, we’re not doing that anymore.”
Hospitals lose the incentive to inflate prices, taxpayers stop getting robbed. Who in their right mind is against that?
𝐂𝐮𝐭 𝐍𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟑: “Site neutrality,” saving $148 billion.
This one’s easy—hospitals can’t charge people on Medicare or Medicaid more than they charge cash or private insurance customers for the same service.
It levels the playing field. Fair pricing. Who’s mad about that? Exactly—nobody.
So just from those three items, we’re already saving over $200 billion.
But if I had just come out and said, “Hey, they’re cutting $200 billion from Medicaid,” y’all would’ve lost your minds.
That’s the problem. People freak out before they even know what’s actually in the bill. They make TikToks, cry on Twitter, act like it’s the apocalypse—without doing a single minute of homework.
But when you actually look at the details?
Turns out you probably 𝐚𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐞 with every single cut I just mentioned.
And that’s just 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘦𝘳 of the total plan.
If you’ve got even a shred of f*cking common sense, none of this should bother you.
