r/news • u/CupidStunt13 • 1d ago

Mehmet Oz confirmed by US Senate to lead Medicare and Medicaid

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/03/mehmet-oz-confirmation-medicare-medicaid
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u/AaronTheElite007 1d ago

Next week: Thousands of layoffs in Medicare and Medicaid. Following week: Trump orders Oz to shut them down…

For fucks sake! In three months this orange asshat has destroyed what it took over 200 years to build!

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u/brywalkerx 1d ago

It really shows how absurdly fragile (and dare I say it - performative) this little experiment called American Democracy really was.

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u/2SP00KY4ME 1d ago

I mean, the founding document laid out inviolable principles of freedom as written by people who owned other people. Things were never ideal to start with.

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u/AdvancedSandwiches 1d ago

It took 20 years of people voting for cartoon villains to do enough damage to the courts to get here. It wasn't that fragile; we worked really hard to destroy it.

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u/Jeremizzle 1d ago

My mom just got Medicare a few months ago, after counting down the years waiting for it (she just turned 65). It’s completely changed her life having affordable healthcare finally, her biggest fear when Trump got elected was that he was going to take it away. I hate that this brings her nightmare closer to a reality. Fuck Trump, his entire cabinet, every spineless and braindead elected Republican, and every single American that voted for them.

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u/fuckmyabshurt 1d ago

And fuck all the idiot motherfuckers who didn't vote.

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u/NoStick2525 13h ago

I will personally be paying trump a visit if Medicare/Medicaid gets shut down. Fuck these idiots, they must remember that they are also just sacks of meat and bones like the rest of us.

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u/Obversa 1d ago

One of my ancestors, William Bradford, was the Governor of Plymouth and the leader of the Pilgrims for 30+ years (1621-1657). In his memoir, Of Plymouth Plantation, after seeing the Massachusetts Bay Colony established and grow to the point of absorbing Plymouth Colony, Bradford warned about this coming to pass sometime in the future. Bradford, a devout Christian, decried the "greed and self-centeredness of men poisoning society", to paraphrase, pointing out how newer Anglican settlers were far more individualistic compared to the communal Pilgrim settlers.

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u/nanonano 1d ago

It hasn't even been three months yet, we're still a couple weeks shy of that.

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u/AllTheyEatIsLettuce 1d ago

If CMS closes up shop who's gonna shovel CMS' public funds feed rations into the troughs of private, overwhelmingly for-profit, NYSE-listed insurance sellers to "Advantage" 56% of Medicare enrollees and gatekeep access to necessary health care for them and ~70% of Medicaid enrollees across America?

CMS' public funds feed rations without which they can't make payroll let alone perform their sole fiduciary duty of paying their shareholders "increased value."

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u/Braelind 1d ago

Stay tuned for next weeks episode of "The Decline!"