OK, so we cut millions of Americans off of Medicaid. Then what?

[Midnight Writer]

These folks will still be getting sick and need medical care.

Hospitals and doctors, following the law and Hippocratic Oath, will still accept and treat indigent patients, at least in emergency situations.

Which brings up the question: Who is going to pay for these services?

Answer: The people who have insurance, of course.

Hospitals and doctors will raise their rates to recoup the losses from treating nonpaying patients and charge those rates to the insurance companies.

This leaves the insurance companies no choice but to raise the rates on their paying customers.

So when our healthcare premiums go through the roof, we can thank the Republicans.

Same thing will happen with FEMA cuts and auto and homeowner's insurance.

I haven't heard Democrats frame it this way, but I believe they should.

[Ritabert]

1. Republicans will try to repeal EMTALA

Thanks to EMTALA if you show up at the emergency room they have to see you whether you have insurance or not. GOP politicians want that gone so hospitals can go back to dumping the indigent in Skid Row like they used to.

[ck4829]

2. "World's greatest healthcare system" at it again I see

[Ritabert]

7. It's a disgrace.

[Irish_Dem]

3. Yes people will die.

[Ritabert]

8. Definitely.

[Irish_Dem]

10. Killing people is the goal.

[Ritabert]

13. Yep too many people on Medicaid and Medicare

[Irish_Dem]

15. Gonna die anyway. Why should billionaires give up tax cuts to keep us alive.

[Mysterian]

4. Small hospitals in rural areas will close

Mostly MAGA areas.,

[KT2000]

5. Exactly

We cannot handle all of the desperate people now so what will happen to civil society when there are more, including ourselves.

[ImNotGod]

6. Americans die and the rich get richer, that's what. Capitalism will always destroy democracies

you can't have both.

[Iggo]

9. Well...The rich get richer and the poor suffer, of course.

[MineralMan]

11. What Then? Well, then, poor people will die sooner than expected.

There are people in our government right now who think that would be just great.

[Ritabert]

14. The real "death panels"

[MineralMan]

16. Exactly.

[berniesandersmittens]

12. Preventable deaths and massive medical debt nt

[Bettie]

17. Or, the Republican house and senate

will pass a law invalidating EMTALA and they can put the dying out on the street if they don't have insurance.