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Offline tp4tissue

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Cutting Medicare/caid
« on: Thu, 22 May 2025, 10:31:22 »
So.... In 'Murica, we primarily have "sick" care, as opposed to "health" care.

We feed the people with bad self control all the grease/carcinogenic meats,  then we try to extend their life slightly with pills and surgery which operate on some symptoms, but do not cure the underlying disease/ bad life habits.

Cutting medicare/medicaid, net result is, less money to "subsidized" bad health.

Most of this money is fundamentally funding the junk-food, meat+grease lifestyle.

People who have good health/ habits, generally don't need medicare medicaid.



It's going to be bad for people with legitimate medical emergencies, so, assuming a fraction of those with large labor potential's life is cut short, there might be a small percentage downtrend for productivity.



What we'll visibly see more of on the surface are cases like older people who can't pee (Prostate), and those who die 2-10 years earlier without the cholesterol/blood pressure medication.

Insulin might become an issue, but not much larger than it already is.


Fohat always talks about Depopulate,  well, this will do it. 


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Re: Cutting Medicare/caid
« Reply #1 on: Wed, 09 July 2025, 03:34:56 »
Great post

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Re: Cutting Medicare/caid
« Reply #2 on: Wed, 09 July 2025, 07:17:44 »

It's going to be bad for people with legitimate medical emergencies


But no biggie.

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