The stupidity of guessing deaths

COMMENTARY
By Cheryl K. Chumley - The Washington Times - Thursday, April 24, 2025
OPINION:
A study from the far-left Centers for American Progress concluded with this title: “Congressional Republicans’ Proposals To Slash Medicaid Could Cost Tens of Thousands of Lives.”
Or could not.
Either-or.
Maybe, maybe not.
Welcome to science and sound argument, Democrat style. All hype, zero dependable data. The utter fallacy of arguing a point based on who and how many might die gets pushed aside for a flashy headline, a carefully crafted social media post, a strategically worded bullet point, then disbursed to the list of preferred pundits to take to national media and jab, jab, jab at the latest Trump administration agenda.
Republicans are trying to weed out waste and fraud in Medicaid.
So Democrats need some — quick, quick now, be quick about it, please — talking points to fight.
Problem is the Democrats go about it so deceptively and dishonestly.
Here are a few Medicaid facts, collected by The Wall Street Journal: About 1 in 5 Americans rely on Medicaid for at least part of their health care. That’s quite a large population, given that the program was originally intended to provide temporary services to low-income parents and their children; the handicapped; and the elderly. It’s supposed to be funded by both the feds and states. But in 2010, Barack Obama, seeking to expand his Obamacare, gave states the right to enroll those whose incomes went as high as 130 percent of the federal poverty line. Forty or so states did this, resulting in a massive uptick of another 20 million who were covered under Medicaid. In 2023, the federal government — taxpayers — provided about 69 percent, or $606 billion, of that year’s total $870 billion of Medicaid funding.
President Trump has recently tasked the congressional committee that oversees Medicaid to come up with $880 billion in cuts over 10 years. How? Republicans are focusing on reducing the federal portion of Medicaid funding; adding or reinforcing existing work requirements on Medicaid recipients; and identifying and then cutting wasteful and fraudulent expenditures in the program. Some analysts estimate that just focusing on the uptick years that began with Obama’s 2010 expansion could lead to savings of $561 billion over the next decade.
The details are being decided.
The specifics are being worked.
But Democrats — Democrats who pretend they care about the little guy, at least when campaign season comes a’callin’ — Democrats who profess concern for the poor and downtrodden, at least when the claim can result in political dings to Republicans — Democrats say such cuts, such considerations of cuts, will result in deaths.
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