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When Republicans passed their mega tax-cut bill more than a year ago, they timed most of its more than $1 trillion in health care cuts to kick in after the midterm elections, perhaps staving off possible electoral impacts.

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Last year, Trump and 98% of elected GOP enacted the biggest Medicaid cuts in history, bigger even than Reagan's Medicaid cuts. By 2034, 7.5 million people will lose their Medicaid because of the cuts. Clinics are already closing and hospitals are already cutting services, citing OBBBA as a reason.

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-- Bobby Kogan (@bbkogan.bsky.social) 3:32 PM · Oct 15, 2026

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... Nebraska, however, decided to launch early, rolling out new Medicaid work requirements in May and beginning enforcement in July, well before their mandated Jan. 1, 2027 start.

The decision turned the prospect of people losing access to health care from speculative to actual for more than 1,000 Nebraskans so far. And health care leaders, Republican observers and others now think it's a contributor to a political climate that suddenly has GOP leaders on the defensive in a state that is reliably red.

Bob Ward, a pollster with the Republican firm Fabrizio Ward, found Medicaid cuts to be one of the most "resonating negatives" in recent surveys of rural Republicans. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-10-17 01:27 PM | Reply

Republicans support a mass die-off of the poor, the sick, the weak.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-10-17 01:31 PM | Reply

"perhaps staving off possible electoral impacts."

Perhaps?!? More like by design. There's no way in heaven, hell, or anywhere in-between the timing wasn't done on purpose.

#3 | Posted by Danforth at 2026-10-17 03:08 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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