💰GOP-controlled Senate Finance Committee trades $930 billion Medicaid for corporate cuts
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Behind-the-scenes negotiations revealed how Senate Republicans extracted billions in concessions while preserving massive Medicaid cuts that will remove health insurance from nearly 12 million Americans.
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Why This Matters
🤝 Your healthcare depends on backroom deals:
Murkowski demands for Alaska led to doubling rural hospital funding to $50 billion, but only after she agreed to let 12 million Americans lose Medicaid coverage
💰 Rural hospitals saved while urban poor suffer:
The compromise protects sparsely populated Alaska facilities with $2 million per patient while cutting healthcare for working families in cities, revealing how political geography trumps human need
🎭 Political theater disguises real harm:
Media coverage focused on dramatic negotiations while ignoring that the final deal still eliminates healthcare for millions of Americans who depend on Medicaid for survival
⚖️ Vote trading makes healthcare a commodity:
When senators trade healthcare cuts for infrastructure spending in their home states, human needs become bargaining chips in a political marketplace
🏛️ Institutional norms enable systematic cruelty:
The compromise process allowed senators to appear reasonable while supporting legislation that will cause preventable deaths, showing how normal legislative procedures can produce extremist outcomes
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