“We All Are Going to Die”: The GOP’s New Medicaid Policy
Apparently, the Republican plan for American healthcare has been reduced to this: die quietly, and please stop costing billionaires their tax cuts.
At a recent town hall in Iowa, Republican Senator Joni Ernst responded to a constituent’s concern about millions of Americans losing Medicaid coverage with the now-infamous line:
“Well, we all are going to die.”
Yes, really. That’s not a parody headline — that’s the actual response from a sitting U.S. Senator about a policy that the Congressional Budget Office says will kick over 13 million people off Medicaid. Ernst wasn’t alone in this cruelty. 215 House Republicans just voted for Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” — a $4 trillion tax giveaway to the ultra-wealthy that guts Medicaid by $723 billion.
And let’s be clear: these cuts won’t touch Ernst’s healthcare plan. Or Trump’s. Or Musk's. Or GOP megadonors. No, the pain falls squarely on senior citizens living in rural towns, children with disabilities, and low-income working families — the ones who rely on Medicaid not for luxuries, but for basic survival.
And in case you were wondering whether this was all part of a misunderstood efficiency measure, Ernst clarified that too — by blaming Medicaid fraud on undocumented immigrants. Because when you’re slashing life-saving care for millions of Americans, it’s always useful to point the finger at someone else. Preferably someone who can’t vote.
This is what today’s GOP stands for:
✅ Tax cuts for billionaires
✅ Cruelty wrapped in condescension
✅ Gaslighting the American people about who really benefits from these cuts
And if you dare to object? If you dare to ask how defunding rural hospitals and community health centers makes America “great again”? You’re told, with a smile:
“We all are going to die.”
No, It's time to fight back.
Because healthcare is not a luxury.
Because Medicaid isn’t a line item to gut for donor applause lines.
Because Americans deserve leaders who don’t smirk while slashing life-saving care.
We can’t let billionaires write the rules while working families pay the price — in hospital closures, in denied treatments, in lives lost.
If you believe in compassion over cruelty, in competence over chaos, in character over corruption, in facts over fear, and in leaders who don’t shrug when millions are thrown off their coverage, then I’m asking you to stand with me.
Let’s build a future that’s not just “beautiful” for billionaires — but livable for the rest of us.
That's why I’m running for Congress in California’s 41st District.
—Dave Karson
Veteran. Startup Professional. Democrat. Fighter for Working Families.
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