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Sunday, July 06, 2025

KSMU Ozarks Public Radio: Tim Wolters, director of reimbursement at Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, knows rural health care well, and the spending bill and its impact on people who need that care concern him greatly.

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My Rural hospital is in danger
89% of that county voted for Donald J Trump
Posted by LauraMohr

Should have voted for Jill Stein 2028!

#1 | Posted by censored at 2025-07-06 07:05 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

We're ticking off the hospitals that will die in our area.

Yeah, all of those counties went red.

Our native collection of schmoos keeps letting Donald off the hook for things.

I wonder what fantasy they'll create to explain all the deaths?

The average life span of Americans shrank the last time Donald was in office last time.

It's happening again.

#2 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-06 08:03 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

This rural hospital thing underlines a point----

Trust what you yourself see over what some MAGA idiot insists what is true.

The MAGA idiot is hugely invested in denying truth.

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-06 08:16 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

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#4 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 02:35 PM | Reply

then your rural hospital administrators

are democrats which makes them idiots.

in the bill there is 50 BILLION dollars
not for your beloved illegal rapists
and murderers or to terrorists BLM
ANITFA OR THE DNC

but to rural hospitals....but it's easier for simpleton "rural people"
to just blame trump

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-07-06 02:46 PM | Reply | Funny: 1

This is why red states are sickly ---------.

#6 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-07-06 02:51 PM | Reply

I don't live in a rural area.

I don't see the problem here.

#7 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-07-06 03:04 PM | Reply

Trumpers are SO smart!

They know that as long as billionaires can afford healthcare, that's all that really matters.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-06 03:16 PM | Reply

In Okiehomie they estimate a million people will lose their health coverage in the next year. The large majority of voters there voted for this but they don't realize it. They will blame Biden, HRC, Antifa or folks from back East. And they will do nothing about their loss ...

#9 | Posted by catdog at 2025-07-06 04:00 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

Yea, trumpers always forget they voted for that.

#10 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-07-06 04:26 PM | Reply

#9: With the imminent drought and no immigrant workers to tend the crops or soil, on top of Okies losing their health coverage, we might see a repeat of this: puzzledpagan.com

"Pass me some of that salt-pork, Ma."

"Sho'nuff, Tom, here's you go."

#11 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-06 04:30 PM | Reply

Is this that dork that claimed to know about farming?

#12 | Posted by THEBULL at 2025-07-07 05:52 AM | Reply

The large majority of voters there voted for this but they don't realize it

My guess is, lots of MAGAts probably thought someone else was going to get screwed and they were just fine with that.

#13 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-07-07 05:58 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 5

Is this that dork that claimed to know about farming?

#12 | Posted by THEBULL at

In my part of Texas we raise BULLS.

Who are actually just cows.

#14 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 08:34 AM | Reply

It appears the left does indeed believe that poor folks choose to be poor.

"They voted for this"

"don't realize it"

#15 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 08:44 AM | Reply

I believe poor people do make some poor decisions and it's unavoidable.

But some here believe some poor people suddenly get smart on election day.....and some don't.

LOL

#16 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 08:46 AM | Reply

It appears the left does indeed believe that poor folks choose to be poor.

#15 | POSTED BY EBERLY

Not so much more as fanatic.

It's their bloody-mindedness driving them off the cliff.

#17 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 09:32 AM | Reply

Not so much poor as fanatic.

It's their bloody-mindedness driving them off the cliff.

#18 | Posted by Zed at 2025-07-07 09:32 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

-Not so much poor as fanatic.

Exactly. You've never cared about poor people. You only care about their politics.

It's their politics that are the problem. Not their decisions to drop out of high school, get pregnant, drug problems, criminal justice system, etc.

Those are the problems going on your community, Zed. Those are the problems that directly affect your taxes, access to services, home value, etc...all of it.

But what do you focus on? Who you think they voted for president last November.

Jesus ------- Christ....YOU are the fanatic, Zed.

Not them.

YOU.

#19 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 09:39 AM | Reply

It appears the left does indeed believe that poor folks choose to be poor.
"They voted for this"
"don't realize it"
#15 | Posted by eberly

I hope you warmed up before that stretch.

#20 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 10:02 AM | Reply

Jesus ------- Christ....YOU are the fanatic, Zed.
Not them.
YOU.

#19 | Posted by eberly

Hardly.

When their actions are born out of spite and in the end hurt everyone, including their own, well being, it's perfectly rational to care about who and what they voted for.

You're just trying to play some nonsensical gotcha game as if we don't know where this is all going and what eventual outcome will be.

#21 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 10:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

-I hope you warmed up before that stretch.

LOL....not much needed to reach for my coffee.

-You're just trying to play some nonsensical gotcha game

it's nonsensical when it's true? Call it whatever you want....but it's true.

You don't care about poor people...they just need to vote the way you want.

Poor people in Chicago? smart folks...we should help them

Poor people in rural Texas? ---- them...they deserve what they get.

Zed's a fanatic...if you want to stand next to him and hold his beer while he cheers.....your choice.

#22 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 10:33 AM | Reply

Poor people in rural Texas? ---- them...they deserve what they get.

If you can't see the difference between voting for someone who's going to make society better vs someone who's going to rip it apart for their own profit, well, then I can't help you.

It's not true. You're making a lame point that I'm not sure you've fully thought through, especially regarding the known quantity this administration was going to be when they pulled the lever and committed to slowly killing themselves in third world fashion.

#23 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 10:51 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I've said it before I'll say it again

------- and the magat scum movement are a direct threat to my loved ones

They are in the process of destroying what I love about my country

They are treasonous insurrectionists

The are actively endangering my loved ones health and safety

Their policies are costing me a lot of money

Their leader is an adjudicated sex pest conman felon
Magat scum knowingly chose him over a sane centrist normal human being

I will never forget nor will I ever forgive

#24 | Posted by truthhurts at 2025-07-07 11:07 AM | Reply

I read this headline while I'm sitting in a meeting in which we are planning for the likely closure of a facility located in rural Missouri. This planning session was scheduled as a direct response to the new budget bill. This facility plays a critical role in the lives and health of the area.
We originally started discussing its possible closure about a decade ago before I joined this company. It was saved from the axe when Missouri voters approved Medicaid expansion in 2020.
Sitting on this call breaks my heart because its closure will result deaths. Some patients will now having an hour plus drive to reach the next closest emergency and maternity centers. This is in an area where farm injuries and drug overdose are common and high risk pregnancies are already about 4 times more frequent than the national average. Missouri already has the 44th highest maternal mortality rate in the country. If this facility closes then we will soon be much worse.

#25 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-07-07 01:03 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 4

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#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-07-07 01:18 PM | Reply

-You're making a lame point

That you're taking personal. Why deflect to what the Trump administration stands for. I voted against it just like you did.

The difference between you and me is the sympathy and empathy we each have for the poor.

Mine exists. It's real.

Your's is fake like Zed's.

#27 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 01:37 PM | Reply

That you're taking personal.

Pointing out a poor comparison being made as a weak gotcha argument isn't taking it personally.

It's just a bad argument.

At some point, you stop caring when people are self-destructive, especially when that self-destructive behavior starts to harm you and loved ones.

I think even more so when it's based on something as foolish as voting for a conman for POTUS and his authoritarian friends who are doing exactly what some people said they were going to do. Refusing to take them seriously only after they're finding out their poor choices and objecting isn't a lack of empathy.

#28 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 03:14 PM | Reply

-At some point, you stop caring when people are self-destructive, especially when that self-destructive behavior starts to harm you and loved ones.

thank you for making my point.

Do you even realize that's exactly what I said originally and you attempted to refute by calling it stretch?

Then you come full circle and basically repeat it.

"You stop caring when people are self-destructive"

really? just a few posts ago you argued with "choosing to be poor"....then you manage to post that.

LOL

#29 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 03:25 PM | Reply

"something as foolish as voting for a conman for POTUS"

let's be honest....that's the only self-destructive act you care about.

#30 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 03:26 PM | Reply

Do you even realize that's exactly what I said originally and you attempted to refute by calling it stretch?

You were trying to frame it in some partisan angle to then jump up and down and point while yelling "see! you don't care about the poor!"

When it's not "the poor" that's even at issue here.

just a few posts ago you argued with "choosing to be poor"....then you manage to post that.

First of all, that's your trope, not mine. I don't think the vast majority of people "choose to be poor." So *here* take back your straw, please.

Second, it has nothing to do with poor or not poor. That's more of your own straw to take back.

Third, the instances I've seen first hand with regards to giving up on someone involved substance abuse/mental health issues and the user making it clear they weren't interested in help or were taking help and using it in unintended ways. Empathy holds out far longer (if not forever) in situations rising from genuine health issues. Voting for Donald Trump despite everything they were going to do does not warrant that level of understanding and compassion because, again, it's nothing to do with being poor and everything to do with being an uninformed, gullible voter who makes stupid choices out of spite or ignorance.

#31 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 04:45 PM | Reply

let's be honest....that's the only self-destructive act you care about.

#30 | Posted by eberly

In a complete and utter stranger? Yup. They can do what they will and their family/loved ones can intervene if it's necessary.

You're an idiot if you look at people cutting off their nose to spite their face by voting Trump and feeling anything but revulsion and disdain given the global impacts it is having.

What other destructive habit would have that far reached consequences?

#32 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 04:47 PM | Reply

LOL!!!!!

#33 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 04:50 PM | Reply

-Second, it has nothing to do with poor or not poor.

That is one thing you got right.

It's got nothing to do with poor or not poor....it's 100% about who they voted for.

Their plight (healthcare in this instance) is irrelevant to you.

#34 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 04:53 PM | Reply

-What other destructive habit would have that far reached consequences?

drugs
having out of control and unprotected sex with multiple people
dropping out of school
drinking and driving
etc....

But you place "voting for Trump" ahead of those choices. got it.

Do you have kids? please tell me this isn't how you've attempted to guide them in their lives.

You're teaching them voting for a republican is the "most destructive habit with far reaching consequences" above those other choices they could make?

Jesus....you're a bigger fanatic that Zed. I merely placed you as the side kick holding his beer while he yells at the refs. ----, you're worse.

#35 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 04:58 PM | Reply

it's 100% about who they voted for.
Their plight (healthcare in this instance) is irrelevant to you.
#34 | Posted by eberly

Are you really struggling with this this much?

Of course, it's 100% who they voted for when they're reaping the "rewards" of their gullible stupidity or ignorance.

It's got nothing to do with poor or not poor

This was your claim, remember?

But you place "voting for Trump" ahead of those choices. got it.

For reach of consequences? Absolutely. You're an idiot if you argue otherwise.

Do you have kids? please tell me this isn't how you've attempted to guide them in their lives.

You're this obtuse but want to act like you've got a leg to stand on here?

You're teaching them voting for a republican is the "most destructive habit with far reaching consequences" above those other choices they could make?

Still getting a very simple concept wrong. You day drinking?

Jesus....you're a bigger fanatic that Zed. I merely placed you as the side kick holding his beer while he yells at the refs. ----, you're worse.

#35 | Posted by eberly

No, you're just obtuse, stupid, both or trolling.

#36 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 05:11 PM | Reply

drugs
having out of control and unprotected sex with multiple people
dropping out of school
drinking and driving

While I agree, these action are done by poor people. They're also done by wealthy people. Especially the children of wealthy people.

Doesn't seem to really affect their lives much.

The biggest reason people are poor is because they were born poor.

Are there slumdog millionaires? I'm sure. But that's a rare occurrence. Most wealthy people had some resources to begin with.

As for why people vote for Trump, well, that's a result of forward thinking by republicans to make sure they dominated AM radio and the churches in rural America.

Propaganda works folks, and the Republicans are fantastic at it.

Lie, lie and lie some more.

If you take a moment to think about it. America really hasn't progressed beyond the early 90s. Our cities and towns have stagnated while all our taxes are going to fund the military and subsidize the wealthy. (Who have moved all jobs out of the nation.)

#37 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-07 05:30 PM | Reply

As for why people vote for Trump, well, that's a result of forward thinking by republicans to make sure they dominated AM radio and the churches in rural America.

There's also the deliberate destruction of public education.

#38 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-07-07 05:38 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

-Are you really struggling with this this much?

I'm saying it plain and clear.

Perhaps you're just struggling with reading it coherently.

"For reach of consequences? Absolutely."

OMG. We can stop right there. You've jumped into a sphere of absolute absurdity that even Zed is scared of you.

-The biggest reason people are poor is because they were born poor.

finally, some sanity

"America really hasn't progressed beyond the early 90s. Our cities and towns have stagnated"

I live near Wichita, KS and that city along with many larger cities have re-vitalized some previously horrible parts of town and made them decent places to live, dine, shop, etc. These were horrible parts of town. In the early to mid-2000s moves were made to gut old and unused buildings and turn them into nice condos and apartments. We've seen tremendous improvement in that space.

Now, that's just a general "FWIW" from my perspective. In other perspectives perhaps cities and towns have stagnated...certainly with the problems of homeless, mental illness, infrastructure, public schools, etc.......continued massive challenges.

#39 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 05:48 PM | Reply

I'm saying it plain and clear.

And what you're saying is wrong, distorted or just absurd, which is why you've moved the goal posts multiple times.

OMG. We can stop right there. You've jumped into a sphere of absolute absurdity that even Zed is scared of you.

When a schizophrenic off his meds holds up his family along with his junky girlfriend at Thanksgiving dinner for drug money, that sucks.

But it has no where near a global reach like the wrecking ball elected into office by dips*&^ Americans.

Since I know you're not this stupid and are clearly trolling, I'm not responding to your idiotic nonsense again.

#40 | Posted by jpw at 2025-07-07 06:03 PM | Reply

"I'm not responding to your idiotic nonsense again."

Promise? I would hope you mean it after this exchange.

Good gravy ... ..it's not like I expect fanatics like this to be coherent or rational. Mostly I see it as a plea for attention. Zed is the poster child for that. However, I'm surprised at how devoid of attention some of you truly are.

To sum up ... ..fanatics like Zed and JPW don't really care about the poor. They just just can't stand people who deny them what they they're entitled to.

They are perpetually victimized by everyone who denied them what they wanted.

But I think you're lying, JPW.

#41 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 06:43 PM | Reply

"But it has no where near a global reach like the wrecking ball elected into office by dips*&^ Americans."

LOL

#42 | Posted by eberly at 2025-07-07 06:45 PM | Reply

"The biggest reason people are poor is because they were born poor."

Republicans are making more people born poor every day, with their abortion bans.

Republicans like it when people are born poor.

#43 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 07:27 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The biggest reason people are poor is because it was well planned that they be that way.

;;

This is the best talk I've seen on politics all year, albeit an unlikely and both funnier and deeper than I would have expected.

How the Elite rigged Society (and why it's falling apart)

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#44 | Posted by Corky at 2025-07-07 07:38 PM | Reply

"In the early to mid-2000s moves were made to gut old and unused buildings and turn them into nice condos and apartments. We've seen tremendous improvement in that space."

That's happened all over the place.
But immigrant workers, plus government grants, are the fuel for that growth.
And the fuel supply has been cut off.
Let's talk again on Jan 20, 2029.

#45 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 07:48 PM | Reply

Their plight (healthcare in this instance) is irrelevant to you.
#34 | Posted by eberly

I don't get it.
I don't get the relevance.
Isn't their plight irrelevant to literally every human being you can name?

#46 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-07-07 07:52 PM | Reply

Beverly picked the wrong side of history and can go drown in a tub of cheap vodka.

#47 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-07-07 10:23 PM | Reply

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