"Every major health system in Louisiana" is warning Mike Johnson of 'devastation' from megabill
Louisiana hospitals warn Mike Johnson of ‘devastation’ from megabill
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/28/congress/louisiana-hospitals-warn-mike-johnson-of-devastation-from-megabill-00431385
Every major health system in Louisiana is warning Speaker Mike Johnson and the rest of the state’s congressional delegation that the Senate GOP’s planned Medicaid cuts “would be historic in their devastation.”
The group sent the warning in a letter that also went to Majority Leader Steve Scalise and GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician who has also raised concerns about the cuts.
The health systems said the Senate’s revised text hits states like Louisiana even harder than previous iterations and would slash more than $4 billion in Medicaid funding for the state’s health care providers.
“This will negatively impact our ability to deliver care and have devastating consequences for our state budget,” they said. “These economic consequences pale in comparison to the harm that will be caused to residents across the state, regardless of insurance status, who will no longer be able to get the care that they need.”
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You’re fucking right he’s an end timer and has already booked his flight on the Rapture Express.
And not giving kids lunch does nothing except punish them for coming from needy families, which is something regarding which the kids have no control or choice.
It's bad enough that Republicans think being poor is something people deserve, that they believe that if someone is poor, it's because because of some character flaw or moral failing, like being "lazy" or "irresponsible" or some shit. Of course that's a crock, but even IF it were true, I can't comprehend why they think it's appropriate to punish children for something that is not their fault, by depriving them of things like food, health care, a roof over their heads, clothing, educational opportunities, you name it! It's evil and sick, and it's the opposite of what the man they regard as their savior commanded his followers to do!
And then they have the nerve, the unmitigated GALL to want to criminalize women for choosing abortion instead of giving birth to babies they have no way to provide for adequately. They'll happily convict those women of "murder" and put them in prison for the rest of their lives, but they'd rather kill themselves than allocate a reasonable amount of money to help children whose parents lack the means to provide for them adequately.
And don't even get me started on their refusal to recognize the bodily autonomy of all people, pregnant or not, because I could rant all day, and none of us has time for that! 
