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<p>A visual summary of inequality. Cartoon from last year.</p><p><a href="/tags/wealth/" rel="tag">#wealth</a> <a href="/tags/poverty/" rel="tag">#poverty</a> <a href="/tags/inequality/" rel="tag">#inequality</a></p>

<p>The <a href="/tags/healthcare/" rel="tag">#healthcare</a> plan already funded by the Public has been scuttled with NO replacement. The tax credits to states - also already paid for by the Public - funding hundreds of me marketplace programs that provide <a href="/tags/health/" rel="tag">#health</a> &amp; <a href="/tags/medical/" rel="tag">#medical</a> services to tens of thousands of people, were taken and given away by <a href="/tags/congress/" rel="tag">#Congress</a> - largely by donors to the Senate Minority Leader and House Speaker, with a few vague promises to negotiate some scraps back, all now evidently broken. At the end of 2025 the so-called Private <a href="/tags/insurance/" rel="tag">#Insurance</a> Industry was greenlighted massive increases to premiums and the associated payments of co-insurance &amp; deductibles. The 2026 budget will scrap virtually all of <a href="/tags/medicaid/" rel="tag">#Medicaid</a> and most of <a href="/tags/medicare/" rel="tag">#Medicare</a> right after this year&#x27;s midterm <a href="/tags/elections/" rel="tag">#elections</a>. Particularly in rural areas, upward of 40% of hospital revenues come from Medicaid reimbursements which will abruptly cease. HUNDREDS OF HOSPITALS NATIONWIDE are likely to shut down and, in some areas, nearly all will sharply reduce critical services like primary care, emergency rooms, OB/GYN, pharmacy, dialysis, and pediatrics. Many of these particular services will be consolidated to other <a href="/tags/hospitals/" rel="tag">#hospitals</a> far away with no transportation provided. Thousands will die, tens of thousands will be impoverished, as a direct result. A national <a href="/tags/economic/" rel="tag">#economic</a> failure is more than merely likely. And without good cause; only to crush the Public and to transfer away the remains of its <a href="/tags/wealth/" rel="tag">#wealth</a> - our <a href="/tags/savings/" rel="tag">#savings</a>, our <a href="/tags/investments/" rel="tag">#investments</a> - for <a href="/tags/redistribution/" rel="tag">#redistribution</a> to the untaxed parasites who create nothing, to further ensure that their next six generations will be exempted from the Social Compact.</p><p>TrumpRx Denounced as Corrupt Scheme to Line Pockets of Big Pharma—and Don Jr.</p><p><a href="https://www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.commondreams.org/news/trumprx-prescription-drugs"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.commondreams.org/news/trum</span><span class="invisible">prx-prescription-drugs</span></a></p><p>&gt; &quot;Trump has dressed up yet another corporate giveaway as a boon to <a href="/tags/patients/" rel="tag">#patients</a>,&quot; said one watchdog. &quot;Real drug price reform doesn’t look like a website.&quot;</p>