Hidden Cuts to Health Care

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August 20, 2026

Republicans are trying to hide the cuts they have made to health
care in the US, Republicans are working to undo the progress made
with the Affordable Care Act, The work requirement they have
imposed on the ACA is really a paperwork requirement, Up to 15
million people are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage, In 1883
sociologist Wiliiam Graham Sumner published an influential book
that concluded that citizens owe nothing to each other, Those
succeeding in the industrializing economy agreed, The Trump
administration appears to embrace the belief that the nation
depends upon the survival of the fittest, Robert F Kennedy’s
beliefs about vaccines seem to align with that idea, The US is
experiencing a wave of foodborne illnesses, The administration
cut back mandatory tracking of eight pathogens that had been
covered by FoodNet before the administration cut six of them, The
leadership positions at the CDC and FDA are vacant and need to be
filled, Keeping government out of society undermined public
health and safety in the past, Middle class Americans demanded
regulation of the food and drug industry, ushering in
reforms.

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