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MAGA maximum cruelty at work once again.

Little Johnny needs a prosthetic leg.

Well, fuck him. Just let him just use crutches for a while.

Oh, wait...crutches count as "supplies" too?

Well, fuck him again then. Just let him crawl. It serves him right for losing a leg in the 1st place.

Right MAGA? That's how we make this country great again...right?

This is insane.

it's eugenics

It's already difficult enough for my useless ass to stay alive as it is. Then there's these assholes trying to make it harder. I'm so close to just giving up. (I'll be losing the Medicaid I JUST finally got in 2028, anyway.) This broken body was not made for this world. Ugh. I'm so done.

Such a Republican approach to a problem. Don't fix it, just burn it to the ground. That'll so something.

That's beyond Republican.

Traditional Republicans are callous and uncaring: they don't give a shit about weaker people and they don't want to pay for shit people need.

MAGA are actively and purposedly cruel: they go out of their way to hurt people even when there is no point in doing so, or no money to be made. With MAGA, the cruelty is the point.

my useless ass

Your life is worth just as much as anybody else's. You shouldn't think like that.

Medicare-covered DME includes, but isn't limited to:
Canes
Commode chairs
Continuous passive motion machines, devices & accessories
Continuous Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP) machines
Crutches
Diabetes supplies
Blood sugar monitors
Blood sugar test strips
Blood sugar control solutions
Lancets & lancet holders
Hospital beds
Infusion pumps & supplies
Nebulizers & nebulizer medications
Oxygen equipment & accessories
Patient lifts
Pressure-reducing support surfaces
Suction pumps
Traction equipment
Walkers
Wheelchairs & scooters

You are literally doing exactly what they hoped you would do after announcing this.

Why? Is there some backstory I'm missing here?

All federal money has been pilfered by Trump and his oligarch buddies.

The backstory is a made-up accusation scapegoating immigrants, Reichstag-fire-stylee.

That's what fascist regimes looking for an excuse to go full dictatorship do.

I’ll add: the cruelty is the point.

Similar to Trump’s first term, when they separated families at the border as an intimidation tactic or “punishment” for people crossing the border.

If it wasn’t cruel, they wouldn’t be doing it.

SNAP too. That was flagrantly and unashamedly heartless.

Surely the same applies to active military, right? Because that seems like an equally good idea here. Which is to say this is idiotic af.

Nazi party.

To add to this, the bigortry is only to mollify a third of the country who are fanatically adhered to the idea thatthe ruling class is perfect and everyone else is bad. The real reason they're doing it is so they can create a racket themselves like the one they're describing. My small business got nailed when they claimed there was a bunch of fraud and handed off VA payment processing from the VA themselves to an unregulated mafia called "Triwest." Triwest's job is to lose invoices and keep the money the VA gave them to give to service providers. They have friends who want this business and want to run a con while the feds look the other way.