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with my sister in Indiana. She is a diabetic, and just had her second leg amputated. Multiple catastrophic health problems. But she's able to live in her own little apartment, and really values her privacy. She's already expected to live on a pittance, I don't know what she'll do if they cut that further.
It's typical Repuglican mode now--there is something wrong with you, and you've brought it on yourself if you are poor, disabled, sick. You must be punished. Despite their blather, they don't have a compassionate bone in their bodies. My other sister, also a catastrophically ill diabetic, was literally hounded to death.
State budgets everywhere are in crisis because the feds have pulled the funding for all kinds of programs, so they can redistribute the money as "tax cuts". Medicaid is going down the toilet, not in 2042, but right now, because the only attention it is getting is all bad.