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senseandsensibility

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Tue May 27, 2025, 05:14 PM May 27

So this is kind of important [View all]

Sen Dave McCormick on Medicaid: "We want to ensure that the vulnerable people for whom this program was designed are protected and those benefits are protected, but for able-bodied working men without dependents or for illegal immigrants we want to eliminate that expense."

Now Dave and his ilk feel free to spout this nonsense because they are not called out by TV journalists. Millions believe it because they are allowed to say this with no fact checking.

Here's the truth according to Ryan Marino, MD on bluesky: "It's not possible for "illegal" immigrants to receive federal benefits like Medicaid. There are no examples of this happening; they just keep lying about it as an excuse to take healthcare away from vulnerable Americans. I don't understand why mainstream media chooses not to push back on this obvious lie."

Well, I may understand. I think mainstream media, as Dr. Marino calls them, is paid very well not to push back and instead to cast Joe Biden's age as the real scandal. And if that's not true, give me one example of a Dem politician given free rein to lie with impunity on cable news or anywhere else.

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