Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is now law. It’s big, but there’s nothing beautiful about it.
We’re about to see the largest upward transfer of wealth in U.S. history. It’s also going to be the largest cut to health care in the history of the U.S. The “Big Bill” includes over $1 trillion in cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
About 66 million people in the U.S., or 20% of the population, live in rural areas. They will be especially hard hit. Rural hospital access has been declining for a long time, with Medicaid being the only thing that has saved many hospitals. (This is proof you don’t have to be on Medicaid to benefit from the program.)
At least 338 rural hospitals are at risk of closing right now. That means grandparents who have heart attacks will die because there’s no hospital to take them to. Children with allergies will die from anaphylactic shock because they can’t get to the ER.
All so the billionaire oligarchs can steal even more of the people’s money. Much of it will be stuffed into the coffers of the weapons manufacturers and private prison contractors. Those who wrote and voted for the bill know it’s going to kill people, and they don’t care.
The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy analyzed data from the Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, along with other sources, to assess who will win and who will lose because of this bill. They said their analysis “suggests that a tiny sliver of affluent families — the top 1% by income — will receive tax cuts totaling $1.02 trillion over the next decade. For comparison, the bill’s cuts to the Medicaid health care program will total $930 billion over the same period.”
Meanwhile, an analysis by researchers at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania predicted that the House version of the budget bill would lead to 51,000 excess deaths in the U.S. annually. They were just looking at the medical side of things: health care coverage and things like that. They weren’t even considering other areas like food access or rising prices.
They sent letters about these findings to Senate leaders, but even if they hadn’t, these politicians know very well that their policies kill people. These same politicians were unbothered by over 1 million people dying from COVID-19 in the U.S., and millions more dying globally. In U.S. politics today, they scarcely mention these deaths anymore.
The ruling class and their Washington minions just don’t care. In fact, they applauded as they cast their votes in favor of this bill that would result in so much death. The oligarchs rule. It’s time to throw them out and replace them with an equitable socialist system.