BY DAN VALENTI

PLANET VALENTI NEWS AND COMMENTARY

(FORTRESS OF SOLITUDE, WEDNESDAY MARCH 12, 2025) — Politicians lie.

At every level of government, in every political party, they lie. It’s how they “win” elections and maintain office, often for a lifetime. THE PLANET doesn’t tell you anything new with this observation. We merely point it out as a preface to today’s topic, Medicaid.

You may have noticed during President Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress, the Dumbocrats embarrassed themselves for all of the 100 minutes. One of the ways could be seen when the cameras cut to the crowd. We saw many of them holding what looked like ping-pong paddles. Each had a little message on them. By THE PLANET‘s estimation, the most “popular” saying had “Don’t cut Medicaid.”

We understand why the opposing political party would want to try and show up its rival. That’s part of the game. What doesn’t work for us, however, is when they’re against EVERYTHING Trump yet offer no plan of their own. This fully describes the unfortunate political pickle the desperate Dumbs have gotten themselves into. Bereft of idea, all they can do is bark fabrications of the Munchhausen variety, and one of the biggest is their lie about Medicaid.

Looking to sew panic and alarm, Dumbocrats claim Trump will gut Medicaid.

The Dumbs will spend a fortune on ads showing how old people will die, babies will be left on doorsteps, and children with cancer won’t receive medical treatment (although the couldn’t find it in their hearts to applaud when the President announced an honorary Secret Service position for a boy dying of cancer).

Nothing of the sort, actually. Children, old people, and in-need populations won’t be affected by the GOP’s efforts to reign in the scary chunks of money Medicaid costs carve out of the federal budget.

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Congress approved and President Johnson signed Medicaid into law in 1965 to help states cover vulnerable populations. In subsequent decades, Administrations kept adding to the insurance-eligible lists. That was chicken feed compared to what Barack Obama did 10 years ago when he expanded Medicaid.

From Betsy McCaughey, former lieutenant governor of New York:

“A decade ago, Obama and Congress expanded Medicaid to cover healthy adults whether they were willing to work or not. Rep. Nancy Pelosi boasted that everyone should have the freedom to pursue ‘your own happiness’ of [doing] ‘whatever you want to do’ without having to hold down a job and pay for health insurance. Pelosi’s promise made working people into pasties supporting the freeloaders.”

Now, GOP legislators, with the President’s backing want to install a work requirement for those who are healthy enough to hold down a job. God forbid, the cruelty of expecting healthy adults to get off their asses for get jobs. This will reduce Medicaid costs by $140 billion. Another $100+ billion will be saved by allowing the Feds to monitor state eligibility lists more than once a year. Or didn’t you know that the “do-gooders” in the Biden administration limited eligibility checks to one a year?

House Speak Mike Jonson: “Medicaid is for single mothers with small children [and the elderly] who are just trying to make it. It’s not for 29-year-old males sitting on their mom’s couch playing video games.”

Without the changes to Medicaid sought by Republicans that will trim a quarter of a trillion dollars, federal spending on the program will be “unsustainable.” That judgment comes not from THE PLANET but from the nonpartisan General Accounting Office.

Next time you hear someone bitching about the “cuts” to Medicaid, you’ll know that person is either Dumbocrat or a Demagogue–a difference without a distinction if ever there was one.

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“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it” — Jonathan Swift.

“OPEN THE WINDOW, AUNT MILLIE.”

LOVE TO ALL.

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