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Here's a point that can't be missed about Trumpcare and its destruction of Medicaid, from healthcare analyist—and doctor!—Michael Sinha: "#AHCA is not repealing #Obamacare, it's repealing the Social Security Amendments of 1965—the law that ESTABLISHED Medicaid!!!"
The bill isn't just tearing a massive hole in the safety net, it's taking direct aim at one of the key social insurance—entitlement—programs that is foundational to the middle class of our society.
This is how it starts. It starts with gutting the Social Security Amendments Medicaid amendments. This is the end of Medicaid as we know it, the program that has provided one-fifth of Americans essential healthcare. It will also do away with the extra years of financial stability the Affordable Care Act has provided Medicare.
If McConnell has his way, this will be just the beginning. If he can drive this wedge in now and peel Medicaid out of our social insurance network, he'll have the blueprint for going after Medicare and Social Security next.