Rural health clinics are closing after Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' raising the legislation's political risks

[Dulcinea]

(CNN) Exactly two months after President Donald Trump signed his policy megabill in a July 4 celebration at the White House, a Virginia health care company blamed the law for the closure of three rural clinics serving communities along the Blue Ridge Mountains.

The closures, Augusta Medical Group said in its statement, were part of the company’s “ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for healthcare delivery.”

Rural health providers that rely on Medicaid funding were already under strain before the bill cut federal health spending by hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade. Now, Democrats are linking that crisis to Trump and Republicans in elections this year and next.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/rural-health-clinics-closing-trump-100005397.html

[Aristus]

1. Sorry about that, hayseeds. Elections have consequences.

Get used to "rub some dirt on it, and walk it off."

[Grins]

11. Yes! And before they go after the state of Virginia...

…(where it is an election year*) D’s should get in front of this and say, “We tried to help. But you voted Republican.”

* Gov Glenn Younkin, (R-OfCourse), cannot run for reelection.

[Stargazer99]

2. The wealthy want the poor and lower classes to die as they are doing everything to make it happen

[not fooled]

8. Acting president Stephen Miller wants 100 million, tops

so 2/3 of us have to go.

https://www.petertheil.com/68698/]

Trump once joked about it, saying:

“If it were up to Stephen, there’d be 100 million people in America and they’d all look like him.”

https://centeredamerica.substack.com/p/news-trump-privately-stated-stephen

According to the Wall Street Journal, Donald Trump once joked in a closed-door meeting that “if it were up to [Stephen] Miller, there’d only be 100 million people in this country, and they’d all look like Miller.”

...The resurfaced “100 million” remark, once dismissed as a quip, is now being read as a window into the administration’s goals: drastically reducing the population through mass deportation and shutting the doors on immigration altogether.

and letting the useless eaters and surplus population die off from lack of healthcare.

[hibbing]

3. Yet, they will vote R again, just like farmers in my state n/t

[Queso Delicioso]

6. They never own the consequences of their actions.

There's always someone else to blame.

[wolfie001]

14. A relative told them a story about some guy that put a dress on.......

Yes, they're that hateful AND stupid.

[twodogsbarking]

4. It that area the next clinic could be a very long drive; up, down, around, repeat.

[tclambert]

5. Republicans never do their homework, never try to anticipate the consequences.

Then they will claim, "No one could have foreseen," and talk about unintended consequences. Yet, plenty of videos exist of people trying to warn them ahead of time about exactly what happened.

[wolfie001]

13. It's the $ being sent their way. Strictly speaking

That's what old Susan Collins is all about. Poor people don't even register to her.

[roscoeroscoe]

7. More Accurate: Raising the Human Toll

EOM

[Scalded Nun]

9. Hey! This is what you all wanted. Now suck on it.

[modrepub]

10. Nary A Mention

About how many jobs will be lost. Yea, we’re talking people’s healthcare and lives, but in most rural counties the local hospital is a major employer akin to any large manufacturing facility. Politicians would bend over backwards to save a plant, but a hospital system? They wouldn’t lift a finger.

Dems need to focus on job loses and tax base decay when they bring up this issue. Voters and politicians respond more to people working than saving people’s lives(for the most part).

[wolfie001]

12. Just send 'em all bootstraps with instructions

[kimbutgar]

15. I hope signs are put outside these clinics stating they were closed because of the orange turd and the repuke

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