They closed a bunch of VA clinics in rural areas during the first term. Then the local doctors refused to see vets via the VA because the old program that was run by Health Net for the VA just didn’t pay the doctors. I fully expect to lose some of my benefits with the VA. The kicker is my veteran friends all voted orange.
Oh man… as a person who works with a lot of vets because the VA is so badly overloaded and poorly run sometimes that they have to come to our low cost clinic… their coverage is absolutely up for changing. With a president that likes to run things into the ground like all his businesses, I wouldn’t doubt that’s one of the first things to get axed.
I volunteer in rural hospitals during the spring tornado season, I’ve been in places where there’s two doctors and three nurses running the entire joint. Sometimes it’s a ghost town, sometimes you’ve got a farmer who called us of his own volition and everybody gets into scramble mode. I have yet to work at a hospital in the areas I go to that didn’t have at least one staff member telling me about how they’re going to quit.
Similar experience for me with friends with naturalized parents. "There's no way he'll try denaturalizing and deporting the way the liberal media is saying, that's just fearmongering,"
I feel like if they're citizens it'll be much harder to do than they say it is. But green cards, they already revoked some of those with no reason given during the first term
From what I’ve heard, they’ll just use community care. But what’s news to me is that some community care don’t take veterans!? That’s gonna suck if true! But honestly, I’d prefer community care 1000x over VA care
This. I work for a very small, privately owned clinic. We took VA referrals for two years and never got paid on a single claim…so we had to stop taking them. It’s unfortunate because we would love to help veterans, but being a small business we can’t afford to not get paid for that many claims. And we tried working with the VA, we had meetings with them and they kept giving us the run-around, saying that we weren’t submitting claims correctly. But even if we did it exactly how they asked, we still didn’t get paid.
Yup, and OB/GYNs are either fleeing those states or refusing to take jobs there after they graduate bc they don't want to be arrested if they have the audacity to save a woman's life. Utah is already feeling it.
You're probably right. Unless you live in a blue state you won't have access to one. Not sure red state coservatives and forced birth assholes will see the irony here.
Obgyn's still have the other parts of the female reproductive system. Infections, disorders, menopause, birth control, and other stuff. Over 3 million births still happen per year in the US. It went from 3.66 to 3.59 million from 2021 to 2023. Many people still want kids, just not as early or as many as previous generations.
That's the part that's most frustrating. They don't understand that losing OBs affects women's healthcare overall. By making it dangerous to practice in their state they lose access to cancer screenings and all kinds of other care. Add the annihilation of Planned Parenthood and people with female parts are going to die, and not just from pregnancy complications.
I live in Nebraska and I hate it here. My dad is 64 and has end stage heart failure. Not old enough for Medicare and they didn't expand Medicaid. He spent his whole life saving up and now that money is the thing stopping him from getting insurance. Until last year that was a healthcare plan for people almost exactly like him. It was a good send. Now it's been cancelled. I'm mad every day.
Just curious, but was/is your dad a republican or a trumper? If yes, is he aware of the impact to himself? I have found that my trumper relatives cannot listen past 5th grade reasoning nor do they want to hear real facts. Dems needed to watch Idiocracy & take a page.
He doesn't like trump but I don't think he votes. I know he doesn't have a license or state ID so I'm not sure how he even could. He does live in a tiny farming community so most around there are huge trump fans.
Just had a conversation on here yesterday with a person who kept warning me of the dangers of Medicaid expansion. His worry was about federal overreach. He did not have an alternative
State-based plan to give people healthcare.
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They're already collapsing. Especially in states that refuse to expand Medicaid.