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I know many red states have been trying to defend Republican Medicaid cuts by blaming residents for being unhealthy.
"We tried to give you healthcare, but it wasn't sustainable bc y'all just don't know how to take care of yourselves."
The cost being unsustainable is pure bullshit anyway, but even if that were true, the idea that when looking at the cost of covering healthcare in the United States, their go to argument for why it's so expensive, places the blame on the patients for needing healthcare.
As if nobody has ever pointed out side by side bills comparing the cost of the same hospital stays in the U.S. vs just about any other county.
Peak authoritarian government acting like a narcissistic parent and gaslighting America into believing the reason they can't take care of their kids is bc the kids are at fault. Not bc they just suck as a parent and shouldn't have kids if they can't take care of them.
And the rich part is that if they wanted to go down the route of "healthcare is expensive because America is overall unhealthy" that's "fine". As the folks in charge do something about it?
Invest in better education on the importance of proper diet and exercise. Invest in providing cheaper and more readily available whole foods. Subsidized or provide classes that teach people how to actually cook. Do the things that would actually help "make America healthy again" instead of worrying about fucking food dyes and weather or not a trans person is getting healthcare.
If they did that while spouting that kinda bullshit at least they would be intellectually consistent, but they don't and that's how you know they're full of shit.