I don't believe the vast majority of Medicaid suppliers who were put on a “list” and are under “investigation” by Attorney General Todd Blanche, FBI Director Kash Patel and Dr. Mehmet Oz, administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are guilty of a damned thing. And I wouldn't believe a thing Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose said either.
Here we have pedophile protectors in Patel and Todd Blanche pretending they are concerned about corruption. They are doing all they can to get rid of Medicaid, not trying to root out fraud. They represent the real fraud that is undermining the United States. We all know that Blanche went to Ghislaine Maxwell and offered her a sweet deal at a country club prison if she kept quiet about Donald Trump's ties to Epstein and any horrible atrocities Trump might have committed.
It is beyond reason or common sense that anyone would believe a word Trump said or says in the future about Epstein or anything else, or that people would think Trump was going to “clean up the swamp.” The swamp was a large swamp, but under Trump it now encompasses an area that would make the everglades look like a small pond.
Trump, Blanche, Patel, LaRose, and all of Trump's sycophants want to eliminate Medicaid. Hypocrites like J.D. Vance and Elon Musk say we need more children born. What sickening phonies they are. I looked it up. Forty-one percent, I repeat, 41 percent of children born in the United States are delivered through Medicaid funding. Medicaid fills the gap from one of the wealthiest countries in the world not having universal health care. We are at least 75 years behind where we should be, as after WWII a national health care plan should have been passed and initiated. How do these traitors think people should have more babies when there will not be any social service to help the parents and no way to pay for the births?
Instead, we had McCarthyism and the red scare, and there was never any real reason to worry about dictatorship under communism. The worry in this country has always been corporate rule and later, fascism under corporate rule, which is what McCarthy wanted, and that is what the so-called “tea party” wanted. That is what Reagan's administration was leading us to, whether he realized it or not. In a way, Trump, as dumb as he is, is more astute than Reagan, because Trump knows exactly what he wants, fascism, whether he can actually define the term or not.
Six of the so-called “Supreme Court” “justices” were essentially put on the bench by the Federalist Society, a fascist right-wing organization.
In 1971, shortly after being put on the Supreme Court, Lewis Powell wrote a memo. He was worried that capitalism was under attack. It worried him that protests were happening on college campuses. It worried him that unions were demanding workers get a fairer wage. He felt media programs like 60 Minutes, which started in the fall of 1968, was questioning the system too much. Civil rights were actually being taken seriously. Anti-war protests. Environmentalism. Many questioned why there was such a huge disparity between rich and poor. All of this concerned him. So he wrote a memorandum to suggest what could be done to get society back in line, the way he felt it should be.
Protest on college campuses should be clamped down on and he suggested various ways to accomplish this. Unions should be undermined or simply made to be irrelevant by incorporation into the establishment. Powell wanted the Chamber of Commerce to join in an attack against what much of the media today calls “wokeness.” Business entities should take a much stronger lead in funding those who valued capitalism and a much stronger stance against those who saw deep flaws within capitalism.
Media should be created for or be subordinate to the purpose of unbridled and unregulated capitalism. Textbooks should be reviewed and approved by a “staff of scholars” who speak for the “Chamber” (of Commerce). Why Powell felt this was necessary for the preservation of capitalism is really overkill, because classroom textbooks already glossed over parts of U.S. history that put the system in a bad light. A few sentences or maybe a paragraph or two mentioned slavery. A couple more sentences addressed civil rights, another paragraph might have mentioned labor concerns, if written in the books at all.
It is not an accident that Rush Limbaugh and other right-wing media cropped up shortly after Powell's memorandum was written, distributed, and acted upon with a huge amount of funding by business, and a large amount of money given to politicians who agreed with and pushed for the goals he pursued. The propaganda they pushed for should not be underestimated. It has been effective in achieving what he and those he influenced strived for.
We see that clearly in FOX “news.” CBS is now controlled by a right-wing David Ellison, a Trump supporter. His father Larry Ellison is a huge Republican donor. That is another thing to consider. It is already getting harder to find out who contributes to political candidates. Don't be surprised if laws are passed or the Supreme Court rules soon that political donations do not have to be reported at all.
Getting back to those who want to sabotage Medicaid. The same people want to weaken laws that apply to their donors or benefactors while terrorizing Medicaid providers with tougher provisions, so doctors won't want to accept Medicaid patients. They want to weaken the Department of Health and Human Services, and they put an unqualified nutcase in charge of it. No money for Medicaid, but plenty of money for unprovoked war.