VA county Trump carred by 50 points in 2024 loses rural Health Clinic due to his Big B*llshit Bill.

[Miles Archer]

As the final hues of autumn linger in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the 200-person community of Churchville, Virginia, is grappling with the loss of its health clinic.

Gone are the days of seniors walking down the road from their house to see the town doctor.

Augusta Medical Group cited the health care provisions in President Donald Trump’s signature legislation, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, for closing the rural clinics in Churchville and two other locations.

“I’ve called around trying to find a replacement, a new doctor, and for just a well-being appointment, the soonest is the end of January,” said Teresa Leach, 56, in an interview while sipping her coffee at the MTN. Mystic shop just a few feet from the shuttered clinic. Leach, who has asthma, said she voted for Trump last year.

Trump carried Augusta County, which includes Churchville, by nearly 50 points in 2024. Jena Crisler, a physician, ran to represent the area in the Virginia House of Delegates and lost this month to the Republican incumbent by more than 40 points even in a Democratic statewide sweep.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/30/politics/trump-one-big-beautiful-bill-rural-healthcare

[Botany]

1. "Leach, who has asthma, said she voted for Trump last year."

FAFO. It would be a shame if she has an asthmamatic attack before she finds a doctor
which causes damage to her heart and lungs, she winds up in a nursing home, gets
COVID, and it goes to pneumonia.

[Miles Archer]

11. What doesn't get said often enough...

...is that for every person like Leach, for every business owner who's shuttered because of ICE Barbie's raids, WE are all paying the price AS WELL.

The media's going to do this "human interest" angle on Trump voters who got screwed, but the reality is that unless you're a millionaire or a tech broligarch like Musk, Thiel, Bezos, Zuckerberg, this is not a story of God-fearin', freedom-lovin' old folks who can no longer walk to their local clinic.

They are a SEGMENT of society, and we are going through it because of THEIR VOTE, but I want to see MORE STORIES about Americans who DID NOT VOTE FOR TRUMP and are getting screwed JUST AS SEVERELY as those poor, sad, old MAGAts.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

20. I think inhalers are pretty expensive. What a shame if she loses her health insurance.

[RandySF]

2. They'd thank Trump for it

as long as black and brown people suffer more.

[DFW]

3. They got what they voted for

And not a one of them will admit it or believe it. They'll never see the connection because they simply don't want to.

[ananda]

9. Yes, Magats are crazy in love with confirmation bias.

And they literally don't see or care about anything else.

[Beartracks]

4. I hope local media people connect the dots in straightforward language so townsfolk know how they got screwed.

[B.See]

5. GOOD FOR THEM. You

need reap what you SOW. Especially when you vote with the intent to DO HARM TO OTHERS.

[marble falls]

8. They only meant to pooch everybody elses clinics.

[B.See]

12. Wait till they find out Trump

also fkd their health insurance, coverage, out of pocket costs, and their social security.

Like we've been SAYING he would.

How 'great' are we feeling NOW, chumps?

[GreenWave]

6. The fact that Dem brought the gap down this month by 10% has nationwide GOPs pissing in their pants.

It was a statewide phenomena. And looks to be nationwide.

[marble falls]

7. Merry freaking Christmas to the dingbats who voted MAGA in.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

10. "Across the street from the coffee shop, a sign in the window of a storefront reads, "Thank you, Trump, Save America Aga

Across the street from the coffee shop, a sign in the window of a storefront reads, “Thank you, Trump, Save America Again.”

[pansypoo53219]

13. oops. lol.

[malaise]

14. They

FAFO’d
Ah well

[dalton99a]

15. "But that's ok because he's deporting the Mexicans and starving the Black people"

[mercuryblues]

16. Too bad, so sad

Fuck her.

[LisaL]

17. They got exactly what they voted for.

Elections have consequences.

[OMGWTF]

18. Zero sympathy from me to anyone who voted for this sh!t.

Congratulations fumduck -- THIS is what you voted for.

[Orrex]

19. Maybe their racism and bigotry will serve as substitutes for medical care.

[MissouriDem47]

21. The voted for that, so no sympathy

[Aristus]

22. I wonder if lack of health care out there in Trumpville is going to mean fewer Trump voters.

I'm not saying I want that to happen. But it's hard to argue that it's not what they wanted to happen.

You get what you vote for, hillbilly dickheads...

[NameAlreadyTaken]

23. Sad. Anyway...