The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill that congress approved last summer will cut approximately $1 billion in Medicaid from the poor people of West Virginia. Linked above is an op-ed from Dr. Dan Doyle (pictured), a physician who has been treating these folks for the last 45 years. Talk about someone who looks the part of the country doctor.
Helen Hicks Baker writes, “For several years, it was my honor to serve on a rural health committee with Dr. Doyle. He’s an impressive guy, and absolutely right on health care policy.”
We can keep raising our defense budget, current just under $1 trillion annually, spent by the Pentagon that has failed seven consecutive audits.
We can provide enormous tax breaks to our nation’s billionaires.
All the while, we’re sentencing the poorest of the poor to short lives and painful deaths.
