A Lot Off The Top

Let me spell it out, because apparently we’re still pretending Medicaid cuts are a budgeting issue and not a moral collapse.

The New York Times just published a piece on how states gutting Medicaid are nuking rural hospitals. Not neglecting. Not underfunding. Actively, strategically killing them. It’s slow-motion healthcare arson wrapped in red tape and passed off as “policy.” And the victims? The poor, the elderly, the disabled, the chronically ill. You know—people who don’t have Super PACs.

Why do I care? Because I’ve been that patient. I’ve lived in that hospital bed. I’ve seen the look on a rural mom’s face when the ER doc says, “We can’t help you here anymore.” And guess what? That doc's quitting next week.

This isn’t about fiscal conservatism. It’s about cruelty wearing a suit and blaming “inefficiency.” This is what happens when people who’ve never had to call an ambulance start playing God with spreadsheets.

You want to slash Medicaid? Fine. Then you tell the guy with stage 4 cancer and no car that his treatment is 140 miles away and the hospital that used to help? Bulldozed into a Dollar General.

There’s a word for this. It’s called abandonment.

And if you're not angry yet, you’re not paying attention. Or maybe you’ve just never been sick enough to care. Lucky you.

NY TIMES ➡️ https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opinion/medicaid-cuts-rural-hospitals.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EU8.UWjl.JMOinOqfwUek&smid=nytcore-android-share