Trump Budget Bill Would Lead to 51,000 More Deaths Per Year, as Health Experts Urge Medicare for All

[Uncle Joe]

President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill" now before the Senate could result in over 51,000 preventable deaths each year in the United States. That's according to public health experts at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania, who sent a letter warning about the bill's impact to the Senate Finance Committee. An estimated 16 million people stand to lose their health coverage as a result of the changes in the bill, which "imposes onerous paperwork and fails to safeguard healthcare tax credits," says Alison Galvani, director of the Center for Infectious Disease Modeling at Yale and one of the signatories to the letter. She also notes universal healthcare would have the opposite effect and save tens of thousands of lives each year. "There are a lot of ways we can improve how expensive our healthcare is, but taking healthcare away from people is not how to do it," says Galvani.

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[patphil]

1. The people who are pushing this bill hard know that it's going to result in thousands of deaths each year.

They simply don't care. In fact, the death of people who require a huge amount of medical care to stay alive is a valid cost cutting feature of the bill in their minds.
I know this sounds harsh, but there's no way they could not know this.

[Uncle Joe]

2. It's an interesting compromise

between their religious fundamentalist believers denying the overwhelming scientific evidence of evolution and their golden calf people embracing draconian social evolution, and believing in a literal dog eat dog world wherein only the physically or financially strongest survive.

[patphil]

3. Yes, it's a rather loveless world.

The beliefs they hold can't maintain society for long, especially in the US where society is so very diverse.
That's why they want to kill or deport the poor, whom they see as being predominately black and brown.
White supremacy is a fundamental belief of what is being forced on the US by people who only believe in an all white version of the "government of the people, by the people, and for the people".