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Dulcinea

(9,200 posts) Mon Sep 22, 2025, 08:07 AM Sep 22

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

(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

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Rural health clinics are closing after Trump's 'One Big Beautiful Bill,' raising the legislation's political risks (Original Post) Dulcinea Sep 22 OP

Sorry about that, hayseeds. Elections have consequences. Aristus Sep 22 #1

Yes! And before they go after the state of Virginia... Grins Sep 22 #11

The wealthy want the poor and lower classes to die as they are doing everything to make it happen Stargazer99 Sep 22 #2

Acting president Stephen Miller wants 100 million, tops not fooled Sep 22 #8

Yet, they will vote R again, just like farmers in my state n/t hibbing Sep 22 #3

They never own the consequences of their actions. Queso Delicioso Sep 22 #6

A relative told them a story about some guy that put a dress on....... wolfie001 Sep 22 #14

It that area the next clinic could be a very long drive; up, down, around, repeat. twodogsbarking Sep 22 #4

Republicans never do their homework, never try to anticipate the consequences. tclambert Sep 22 #5

It's the $ being sent their way. Strictly speaking wolfie001 Sep 22 #13

More Accurate: Raising the Human Toll roscoeroscoe Sep 22 #7

Hey! This is what you all wanted. Now suck on it. Scalded Nun Sep 22 #9

Nary A Mention modrepub Sep 22 #10

Just send 'em all bootstraps with instructions wolfie001 Sep 22 #12

I hope signs are put outside these clinics stating they were closed because of the orange turd and the repuke kimbutgar Sep 22 #15

Aristus

(70,971 posts)

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

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:46 AM

Sep 22

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

Grins

(8,901 posts)

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

Reply to Aristus (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 05:02 PM

Sep 22

…(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

(3,321 posts)

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

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 09:48 AM

Sep 22

not fooled

(6,479 posts)

8. Acting president Stephen Miller wants 100 million, tops

Reply to Stargazer99 (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 01:30 PM

Sep 22

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

(10,463 posts)

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

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

Sep 22

Queso Delicioso

(116 posts)

6. They never own the consequences of their actions.

Reply to hibbing (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:54 PM

Sep 22

There's always someone else to blame.

wolfie001

(6,223 posts)

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

Reply to hibbing (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:58 PM

Sep 22

Yes, they're that hateful AND stupid.

twodogsbarking

(16,000 posts)

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

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 11:44 AM

Sep 22

tclambert

(11,175 posts)

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

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:04 PM

Sep 22

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

(6,223 posts)

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

Reply to tclambert (Reply #5)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:57 PM

Sep 22

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

roscoeroscoe

(1,785 posts)

7. More Accurate: Raising the Human Toll

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 12:57 PM

Sep 22

EOM

Scalded Nun

(1,518 posts)

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

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 02:48 PM

Sep 22

modrepub

(3,935 posts)

10. Nary A Mention

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 04:05 PM

Sep 22

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

(6,223 posts)

12. Just send 'em all bootstraps with instructions

Reply to Dulcinea (Original post)

Mon Sep 22, 2025, 06:55 PM

Sep 22

kimbutgar

(26,141 posts)

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