“Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans’ cuts to Medicaid under their major legislative effort to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda would cause people to die. Her response: ‘Well, we all are going to die.’”
— ABC News
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All flesh is but wheat chaff scattered by the breeze. And wheat chaff, as your claims specialist will inform you, is not covered under your mini-med limited-benefits plan.
You are an insulin drop trembling on the tip of an out-of-network EpiPen. Glimmering. Pure. Bankrupting.
Medicaid expansion is clinging, and clinging is the enemy of inner peace. The truly enlightened refuse coverage, choosing to drift from urgent care to urgent care like cherry blossoms on the wind. Like their pulse, thoughts of single-payer systems soon fade.