The Big, Beautiful Screwjob
Washington’s plan to carve $1 trillion + out of Medicaid didn’t land with cheers from voters. The Congressional Budget Office estimates 10.9 million Americans will lose health coverage by 2034 (fightcancer.org, en.wikipedia.org). That’s not theory. Cancer patients and survivors already rely on Medicaid heavily: about 10 percent of adults with a history of cancer are on it (fightcancer.org). If that safety net unravels, early detection gets harder, treatments stop mid‑stream, survival drops (fightcancer.org).
Look at what the American Cancer Society’s policy arm says: These cuts threaten screenings, treatments and survivor care (fightcancer.org). Zero Prostate Cancer charity warns that losing Medicaid means delayed PSA tests and diagnostics—delayed often equals fatal (zerocancer.org). The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship and 35‑plus advocacy groups condemned “devastating” funding losses (canceradvocacy.org).
Congress already left us half‑wired before this. We had coverage gaps, high deductibles, insurers dumping patients. Now politicians want to double‑down. Did anyone — regardless of party — vote for more dying families, skipped chemo, devastated futures?
Tell me you feel it when a senator shrugs while someone chooses rent over radiation. When children fall through the cracks. Every stat above has a name, a story, a real human being.
If they make this law, we make noise. We demand accountability.
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