Markwayne Mullin: "There are 35 million people that live below the poverty line inside the US. There are over 70 million people signed up for Medicaid. Now you're gonna tell me there's not room to make cuts?"
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They don’t understand what it’s like to live anywhere near the poverty line.
jun 30, 2025, 6:29 pm • 3 0 • view
Markwayne Mullin, All you need to know: oklahomawatch.org/2025/04/30/d...
jun 30, 2025, 8:32 pm • 31 8 • view
This makes me so mad. We took out a PPP loan for our business and then eventually paid it back. I guess we misunderstood what a LOAN is.
jun 30, 2025, 10:35 pm • 8 1 • view
🤬🖕f marky mullin
jun 30, 2025, 8:46 pm • 2 0 • view
70 million people on Medicaid vs 35 million living below the poverty line just shows how expensive health insurance is and not how many people are committing fraud. These guys ignore the easy answers to build a narrative that fits their agenda.
jun 30, 2025, 5:47 pm • 17 1 • view
Im sorry but aren't we paying this dicks salary? Is he that fucking stupid? Why, yes, he is
jun 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 38 2 • view
We also forgave over a million in PPP loans for him, to boot. How much basic medical care would that have covered?
jun 30, 2025, 6:22 pm • 15 0 • view
What about the elderly? Disabled? Do they not have value?
jun 30, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
They act like health insurance is affordable and that it’s required that employers pay for it. Just because someone isn’t living below the poverty line, doesn’t mean they can actually afford health insurance.
jun 30, 2025, 7:42 pm • 17 0 • view
ARE THERE NOT POOR HOUSES
jun 30, 2025, 3:57 pm • 7 0 • view
What % above the so-called poverty line are you Mr. Mullin?
jun 30, 2025, 7:23 pm • 3 0 • view
he is as stupid as he looks
jun 30, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0 • view
Yet again, no journalist points out how many employers refuse (aka, aren't required) to offer health insc....or how many employers pay so poorly that working people still need assistance & food stamps WHILE WORKING but it's newsmax so of course it's pravda
jun 30, 2025, 7:13 pm • 10 2 • view
He acts like this is proof of abuse of the system rather than an indictment of the GOP neglecting how many people even above the ‘poverty line’ are struggling in America just to give more tax breaks to billionaires
jun 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 4 1 • view
Dat don’t make no sense. #MWMisadumbass
jun 30, 2025, 5:42 pm • 1 0 • view
This guy's dumber than a bag of used dildos.
jun 30, 2025, 7:10 pm • 8 0 • view
And his look gives the impression that he left one up there in place.
jun 30, 2025, 8:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Did anyone ask the obvious follow-up question? "And what IS the poverty line in the US?"
jun 30, 2025, 4:57 pm • 7 0 • view
Welp... There is no hope to explain nuance to Murkweeenie
jul 1, 2025, 1:27 am • 1 0 • view
Soon, the solution is tax cuts for the richest 1% and cutting Medicaid? This guy lives in the Bizarro World.
jun 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 1 0 • view
We can save the government his salary. Just saying.
jun 30, 2025, 8:12 pm • 2 0 • view
Says the idiot who gets paid for life and insured by the government for life
jun 30, 2025, 6:26 pm • 13 0 • view
Expanded Medicaid covers those earning 133% of the federal poverty line. He fails to add the demographic that earns “over” the federal poverty line which could add up to “70 million” total qualified beneficiaries.
jul 1, 2025, 12:56 am • 1 0 • view
You jerk, there are thousands of elderly in nursing homes who depend on Medicaid. Not everyone on Medicaid is “an able bodied adult”, there are many disabled on Medicaid as a well.
jun 30, 2025, 4:23 pm • 7 0 • view
I was going to say this. Plus, they’re not eligible until all their assets are depleted. SMH.
jun 30, 2025, 4:50 pm • 4 0 • view
You gonna tell me there's not room to make the 815 billioniares benefiting from all this pay more taxes?
jun 30, 2025, 8:27 pm • 40 2 • view
Some people are on Medicaid because they’re between jobs or they have a job that isn’t giving them health insurance like my 28 year-old daughter
jun 30, 2025, 4:22 pm • 17 2 • view
"If they would rather die they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
jun 30, 2025, 6:28 pm • 5 0 • view
There's room for cuts. But cutting most of the program to solve the problem. youtu.be/kaCEygTTFdM
jun 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 8 0 • view
Medicaid is underfunded, it needs more funding not less!
jun 30, 2025, 7:56 pm • 11 0 • view
Why do they put the two first names guy in front of the cameras? He has absolutely no idea how healthcare and the economy work and the networks only empower him to spread disinformation. I call bullshit on the media. They are complicit.
jun 30, 2025, 4:05 pm • 3 0 • view
Millions work for small businesses that are not required (and not able) to provide employer based health plans. They have to find their own individual plans. If income is low they are automatically directed to Medicaid. Maybe Congress should have to find their own plans! Then they would understand.
jul 3, 2025, 12:17 am • 1 0 • view
How out of touch can he be? There are many who work multiple jobs at part time hours who do not qualify for employer benefits. I should know - it was my life for 18 months during the downturn 15 years ago while I was competing with people who had advanced degrees for any available position.
jun 30, 2025, 4:43 pm • 15 3 • view
And it’s coming back around as thousands of healthcare workers are getting laid off as hospital systems use proactively “restructure” in advance of projected Medicaid cuts. This is a tidal wave that remains largely unrecognized as it looms offshore.
jun 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 5 0 • view
This guy has two first names in one. Could his parents have not made a cut there?
jun 30, 2025, 7:59 pm • 12 0 • view
His cousin is Richard Wayne GaryWayne from Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
jun 30, 2025, 8:36 pm • 5 0 • view
I read this at first as saying he is related to Johnwayne Gacy
jun 30, 2025, 9:09 pm • 5 0 • view
Two first names once again verifies that he has the IQ of a dead hamster on a spinning wheel. You could insert a skewer between his lobes and touch nothing.
jun 30, 2025, 8:39 pm • 2 0 • view
In other words: "My party, -the GOP- thinks that 35 million Americans deserve to die because they earn $1 more than the poverty line."
jul 1, 2025, 3:30 am • 2 0 • view
When they say cuts, they actually mean cutting people's lives short.
jul 1, 2025, 3:31 am • 3 0 • view
Tell me you don't understand Medicaid without saying you don't understand Medicaid.
jun 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Absolutely clueless as to how expensive health insurance is. Does he think people will stop getting sick?
jun 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 4 0 • view
He is worthy of the name Markwayne
jun 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 6 0 • view
Pretty sure there’s a one before that 35.
jun 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Yeah turns out it’s impossible to afford healthcare even if you make triple, quadruple the poverty line
jun 30, 2025, 5:16 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 11:53 pm • 8 1 • view
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jul 1, 2025, 12:53 am • 0 0 • view
Republican math…. SMH
jun 30, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
Okie from Muskogee I’m an ex Okie and that state is a one horse state I moved to Texas in 86’ and now it’s Tex Ass
jun 30, 2025, 7:11 pm • 5 0 • view
Who sets the poverty line? Is that congress or some agency.
jun 30, 2025, 8:56 pm • 0 0 • view
How many regular folks are going to watch this and say “You’re so right, I can’t afford my medical bills just because I don’t work enough overtime!”
jun 30, 2025, 6:47 pm • 1 0 • view
Does this idiot not realize that the 35 million people living below the poverty line doesn't include their children?
jun 30, 2025, 7:04 pm • 4 0 • view
He can be cut from his job, that might improve some people's lives
jun 30, 2025, 7:28 pm • 2 0 • view
Me. The poverty line is low enough to qualify as a crime against humanity.
jun 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 334 10 • view
Yep!
jun 30, 2025, 4:41 pm • 0 0 • view
In this country, fuckin' A right it is.
jun 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 67 1 • view
Yeah, but socialism
jul 1, 2025, 7:22 am • 0 0 • view
What's insane to me is that the poverty line is the same no matter where you live, but the cost of living from state-to-state is so drastically different. The poverty line in California should not be at the same $ amount as the poverty line in Alabama.
jun 30, 2025, 4:21 pm • 9 0 • view
Yeah I live in Ca on 1300 a month and I'm above the poverty line lol. You can almost rent an apartment for twice that much, let alone eat and pay utilities!
jun 30, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 1 • view
wait no I'm 50 dollars under lol
jun 30, 2025, 6:26 pm • 0 0 • view
OK is among the ten poorest states. Why do poor states vote for face-eating leopards?
jun 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 2 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
renemebr to punish him
jun 30, 2025, 7:27 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 3:57 pm • 3 0 • view
Since the 1980s, we've eroded the middle class while slashing funding for the very programs people now rely on. As dependency grows, revenue shrinks. Now, another massive tax cut—this could be the one that finally breaks our backs.
jun 30, 2025, 7:43 pm • 3 0 • view
Oh god.
jun 30, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
How about we cut your healthcare Markwayne?
jun 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 16 0 • view
Give it six months and the spin will be, "Well, those people deserved to die."
jun 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 9 0 • view
It’ll be “if they wanted to live all they’d have had to do is try harder”
jun 30, 2025, 5:49 pm • 3 0 • view
...or be whiter.
jun 30, 2025, 5:50 pm • 4 0 • view
Does he really not understand Medicaid eligibility? It’s not as simple as who lives below the Federal poverty line. Some states expanded eligibility to 138% of FPL. 138% for a single person is only $21,597. Who can live independently on this? Q. Why isn’t the FPL higher? Why are incomes so low?
jul 1, 2025, 11:39 am • 51 4 • view
Answer to your second question is, no fed staffer, team, office, dept, or agency is going to raise the FPL to something commensurate with modern COL, because then ~40 million more people are "in poverty" overnight. So we will keep calculating eligibility based on %age AMI and FPL is frozen in amber.
jul 1, 2025, 12:42 pm • 4 0 • view
He doesn’t understand nor does he care to understand.
jul 1, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 0 • view
My friend, 50, has Parkinsons & is applying for Medicaid; she can't work & is now uninsured. She's not wealthy, yet can't qualify until she demonstrates she has spent down her modest savings acct. (she has no assets & lives w/mom). What a scary leap of faith. Now GOP wants her to work 20 hrs? How?
jul 1, 2025, 12:57 pm • 41 2 • view
My father also had Parkinson’s. He went through the assisted living scam, lost everything and turned to me for support. Medicaid gave him the healthcare he needed at the end of his life. But by doing so, Medicaid also saved my family, my home, and my job.
jul 1, 2025, 1:00 pm • 27 2 • view
I am so sorry about your Dad. 🙏 Cutting Medicaid is not going to make America great (GOP vision is so short-sighted)
jul 1, 2025, 1:15 pm • 13 0 • view
The poverty line is so low
jul 1, 2025, 12:52 pm • 2 0 • view
From AI: For 2023, the poverty threshold for a family of four is set at $30,900. For an individual, it is $14,891.
jul 1, 2025, 12:54 pm • 2 0 • view
Could his parent’s not decide what to name him when he was born?
jun 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 1 0 • view
It's amazing that this guy gets to be a senator because he's from Idaho which has less people living in it than my county.
jul 1, 2025, 6:30 pm • 1 0 • view
It's almost as if he doesn't understand that being able bodied, ready to work, and poverty stricken often means you can't afford access to medical care, or is pretending not to at the behest of the White House and the donor class.
jun 30, 2025, 9:16 pm • 13 1 • view
"It's high time we plunged that excess population back into deep, grinding, relentless poverty where they belong. After all, they are inferior people."
jul 6, 2025, 2:33 am • 0 0 • view
The guy’s a dumbass!
jun 30, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Marquan Mullin pretends that everyone can afford the health plan he and his family enjoys.
jun 30, 2025, 8:23 pm • 7 1 • view
Gleefully reveling in cruelty and evil.
jul 1, 2025, 1:05 am • 15 0 • view
He's such an idiot. He can go fuck himself.
jun 30, 2025, 7:16 pm • 2 0 • view
It’s so weird how some republicans get on and lie that “we are not cutting Medicaid!!!” Then others get on and say, “oh yes we are and we are proud of it!!”
jun 30, 2025, 8:17 pm • 218 11 • view
It’s almost like they are trying to keep the dumb people confused.
jun 30, 2025, 8:22 pm • 98 0 • view
Some of them already took the mask off, some of them are still playing dumb to their constituents
jun 30, 2025, 9:21 pm • 33 0 • view
Agree, but I think Markwayne is not playing when he sounds ignorant.
jun 30, 2025, 9:39 pm • 44 0 • view
Always beware of a man who needs two first names billy bob, marky mark, wayne willie, lou mark, bill wayne, wayne warren; often equals rural, isolated, and right wing ideology. 35-75 million in assets and greed and cruelty are his banner.
jul 1, 2025, 10:57 am • 2 0 • view
People like him just don’t give a fuck. If you’re poor too bad, pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Work full time and get no benefits? Get a better job. Went to college and now the market is trash? Shouldn’t have gone to college. They’ll say everything but go fuck yourself and eat shit
jun 30, 2025, 9:47 pm • 53 1 • view
The Republican party line seems to be “everybody dies”, “get over it”, and “there is no Tooth Fairy”. They aren’t telling you that Kristi Noem killed the Tooth Fairy after she shot the puppy. Markwayne probably hunts the Easter Bunny every year. Dark hearted people.
jun 30, 2025, 11:02 pm • 10 0 • view
People would love to pull themselves up by their bootstraps, but the republicans ripped the straps off all available boots in the US.
jul 1, 2025, 3:48 am • 1 0 • view
Absolutely!
jun 30, 2025, 9:48 pm • 3 0 • view
🎯
jun 30, 2025, 10:27 pm • 1 0 • view
And of course he inherited lots of money.
jul 1, 2025, 2:40 am • 3 0 • view
The "choose your own lie" party: Dear Voters, please select one of the following ten lies. Whichever makes you feel the best about our policy. That one is true. The other nine you can ignore.
jun 30, 2025, 9:59 pm • 2 0 • view
Evil.
jul 1, 2025, 12:47 am • 0 0 • view
Stupid son of a bitch.
jun 30, 2025, 4:29 pm • 17 0 • view
Imagine the audacity of someone making $16,000/year to ask/need help with health insurance. Clearly, they have all the money they need for doctors and hospital bills. They simply don't give a shit because it's not them that suffers.
jun 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 26 10 • view
💯
jun 30, 2025, 4:48 pm • 5 0 • view
Exactly!
jun 30, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Nearly 12% of Americans live below the poverty line. Another 15% (49 million people) live near the poverty line. Often people in both groups are the working poor. That's 27% of Americans.
jun 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 14 4 • view
These mean ugly white men.
jun 30, 2025, 7:48 pm • 8 0 • view
Guess what you fucking dwarf (Markwayne), aoon there will be 100 million living below the poverty line, thanks to you.
jun 30, 2025, 6:33 pm • 3 0 • view
Medicaid eligibility depends on income, household size, state rules, and category (child, pregnant, aged, disabled). Must be a U.S. citizen or qualified non-citizen. Income limits vary; some groups qualify above the poverty line.
jun 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 4 1 • view
www.perplexity.ai/search/how-m...
jun 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 1 0 • view
Mr 3 names, born with a silver spoon in his mouth, refused to raise the minimum wage…
jun 30, 2025, 10:37 pm • 7 0 • view
He’s a stupid little republican clown
jun 30, 2025, 4:26 pm • 5 0 • view
What a fantastic take from a representative of the richest nation in the world who likes to claim to be governing by Christian values.
jun 30, 2025, 10:08 pm • 5 1 • view
this immediately reminded me of this scene in Robin Hood (the only version that matters) Surely there's _something_ i can squeeze out of these poor people
jun 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 7 0 • view
just to be clear he’s a liar or willfully uninformed. 37M adults are in poverty. but another 41M kids. medicaid covers up to 138% of fed poverty level so more than that 37M adults qualify for medicaid.
jun 30, 2025, 6:00 pm • 63 7 • view
First option: he is a liar and probably benefits one way or another (one should check if he has any interest in healthcare companies)
jun 30, 2025, 7:00 pm • 10 1 • view
Medicaid is NOT INCOME. You only get it when you’re sick. Markwayne Mullin is giant dick.
jul 1, 2025, 3:47 am • 61 0 • view
You know what is income? All the stock profits Mullin made with his portfolio using info he gained being on the Armed Services Committee. www.newsweek.com/congress-sto...
jul 16, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Yes, that's why he wears a tie. It keeps the foreskin from creeping up his neck.
jul 1, 2025, 11:31 am • 4 0 • view
This is not true. You can have Medicaid coverage without being ill. It's insurance coverage.
jul 1, 2025, 12:31 pm • 0 0 • view
You need to explain how this is income.
jul 1, 2025, 1:06 pm • 0 0 • view
It's not. You apply and get an insurance card. There no money being sent each month. Common misconception.
jul 16, 2025, 12:38 pm • 0 0 • view
jul 1, 2025, 12:55 pm • 1 0 • view
No, I’m gonna tell you that people are on Medicaid for many reasons. And it’s up to you to listen to your constituents and find out why.
jun 30, 2025, 4:07 pm • 21 0 • view
There are 37+ million children on medicaid (www.childrenshospitals.org/news/cha-blo...) Th7s, thus assumess that every adult on medicare is either above the poverty line, or are not working. Even then Mullin wants to put 2mil children to work!! The math aint mathing The morals aint moraling
jun 30, 2025, 6:29 pm • 1 0 • view
The poverty threshold for a family of four in 2023 was $27,740. Rent runs $1800 to $3000 a month. Say it’s $2000 a month- $24,000 a year. Health insurance does little for those who can’t afford to eat. A family of four making $28,000 can’t afford health insurance.
jun 30, 2025, 6:01 pm • 5 0 • view
I, for one, would start here. www.forbes.com/sites/antoni... And here. www.forbes.com/sites/gebai/... And here too. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/h...
jun 30, 2025, 4:52 pm • 3 0 • view
Oooookla-homa where the wind goes sweeping through the brain...
jun 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 81 2 • view
He thinks his muscles make him smart!
jun 30, 2025, 4:39 pm • 6 0 • view
Or destroying your home (i.e., tornado).
jun 30, 2025, 4:59 pm • 0 0 • view
"Are there no workhouses?"
jun 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 167 5 • view
This! This exactly the vibe he gives off! 🤬
jun 30, 2025, 4:03 pm • 3 0 • view
There are, we just call them for-profit prisons now
jun 30, 2025, 5:24 pm • 1 0 • view
"The poorhouse faded out around the time of the Great Depression as the federal government became more involved with social welfare. Most remaining poor farms and poorhouses closed in the 1930s and 1940s, though a few remained in places like Texas until the 1970s." www.history.com/articles/in-...
jun 30, 2025, 4:10 pm • 66 24 • view
Wait a min so the poorhouse was a real thing….
jun 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 24 1 • view
Yes they were very real. The British Isles and colonies were very famous for them. But they were everywhere.
jun 30, 2025, 5:50 pm • 2 0 • view
Yup. Words don't just pop into existence for no reason.
jun 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 25 0 • view
We now are in the hardened Ebenezer Scrooge Era: "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman. ... "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. ... "Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
jun 30, 2025, 5:46 pm • 23 3 • view
Republicans are going around with t-shirts reading: "Malthus is back"
jul 1, 2025, 9:25 am • 3 0 • view
Literally the Republican policy platform, right there.
jun 30, 2025, 8:18 pm • 8 1 • view
I mean…. Skibidi is a word.. that popped into existence for no reason.
jul 1, 2025, 12:22 pm • 0 0 • view
Where I live we have a park called “poorhouse farm.” It’s where the poorhouse used to be. I live in WV, United States
jun 30, 2025, 5:41 pm • 2 0 • view
For real that's next
jun 30, 2025, 6:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Isn't Oklahoma one of those states that teaches that slavery was good for slaves?
jun 30, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Ah, a Dickens fan here!
jun 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 4 0 • view
Oh, how I wish the 3 spirits would visit every damned one of those greedy gqp traitors, and offer them a chance for redemption! ‘Just to scare the hell out of them!
jun 30, 2025, 4:57 pm • 0 0 • view
He's not a very complex thinker.
jun 30, 2025, 4:47 pm • 2 0 • view
They don't like the Medicaid extension in the ACA. That's where those other 35 million recipients are. And note the lack of concern for the fact that there are 35 million Americans living below the poverty line.
jun 30, 2025, 4:14 pm • 4 1 • view
And the income ceiling for expanded Medicaid is 138% of the poverty line or about $22,000 for an individual www.cbpp.org/research/hea...
jun 30, 2025, 10:18 pm • 1 0 • view
Ole Markwayne thinks he’s mathing.
jun 30, 2025, 6:34 pm • 1 0 • view
The poverty line for a family of 4 is $32,150. A family of 4 making $33,000/year doesn't need help with medical insurance???? Cause' I'm pretty sure they can't afford a place to live, food to eat, and basic utilities for that.
jul 1, 2025, 5:26 am • 64 9 • view
That's $2,750/month. Using the 50/30/20 rule to budget: 50% NEEDS for housing and groceries is $1,375, 30% for WANTS $825, and 20% for savings/debt repayment is $550. Even if you moved the $825 WANTS to NEEDS that's $2,200 to cover housing and food for 4 people.
jul 1, 2025, 1:08 pm • 7 0 • view
So you’re saying the rule shouldn’t be 50/30/20 but instead 80/0/20?
jul 1, 2025, 1:31 pm • 1 0 • view
No. I just did a poor job trying to point out that a family of 4 can't live on that amount of money.
jul 1, 2025, 7:09 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh well fair enough, it did definitely seem unreasonable to me so I guess you illustrated it well, I just grabbed the wrong end of the stick!
jul 2, 2025, 3:11 am • 1 0 • view
lmao there’s basically no place in america where a 4 family house + groceries is less than $1375 a month
jul 1, 2025, 2:09 pm • 9 0 • view
Exactly. And even with housing, food, health assistance, where's the $ for everything else?? Cell phone. Transportation. Clothes. Hell, the cost of women's period products for alone puts a big dent in a budget
jul 1, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
Keep in mind, that's $33k BEFORE taxes. They do not get anywhere close to that $2750/mo to take home with them.
jul 1, 2025, 3:57 pm • 1 0 • view
They aren't giving states time to "wean themselves off the federal dollar" they are pushing out the date so affected voters don't notice until they reelect this corrupt regime.
jun 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 1 1 • view
Yes, MR. Mullet that's the problems we want congress to focus on.
jun 30, 2025, 8:22 pm • 2 0 • view
These disgusting okie mfers gotta go. Theyre some of the most christian nationalist people in the world.
jul 1, 2025, 2:15 am • 14 0 • view
I think we should cut Mullin out of congress
jun 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 11 0 • view
Maybe check with CVS on how Medicaid can save money. www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/cvs-h...
jun 30, 2025, 3:58 pm • 7 1 • view
Let's dismantle this sleazy liar's latest swindle right now: -So only people below the poverty line should get medical financial assistance? That's like saying only people who are flatlining should then get medical intervention -Just because you're above the poverty line does not mean you can pay
jun 30, 2025, 8:14 pm • 11 1 • view
Hello Oklahomans Toss out your representative.
jun 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 27 0 • view
We try, but believe it or not, there are plenty of voters who support him in our very red state. He's disgusting and embarrassing.
jul 1, 2025, 4:06 am • 0 0 • view
Gonna happen for sure!
jun 30, 2025, 4:48 pm • 0 0 • view
Believe me, people are working on it!
jun 30, 2025, 4:04 pm • 20 0 • view
There is a perfect example of why you don't give a person two first names because it makes you a fucking dumbass . Markwayne bwhahahaha i rest my case 😌.
jun 30, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
This Evil Dog Turd can’t even figure out the NO ONE can even survive living in the next income bracket above the Poverty Level, FFS most US Rent’s are way above $1350 a month. 2025 Single Person Poverty Level for the lower 48 is $16500 annually, add $5500 per person for families.
jun 30, 2025, 9:19 pm • 7 0 • view
Omfg. I just can't with this.
jun 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 3 0 • view
“Markwayne”
jun 30, 2025, 9:11 pm • 0 0 • view
even though I have insurance I had not been to the Doctor myself for years because I wasn't sick. I just recently went for a routine checkup but I am older now. when I was in my 20s and 30s I never went to the Doctor because I was able bodied. 50% of healthcare is due to 5% of population.
jun 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 2 0 • view
the main drivers are the elderly, people with chronic conditions, and people with terminal diseases. preventing presently healthy people from getting yearly checkups will mean developing conditions will not get detected and end up driving costs far more when they go to ER.
jun 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
Everyone is one car wreck away from needing lots of healthcare.
jun 30, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
I haven't had a checkup for years (i always got vaccines, dental care, vision, etc.) because I have been healthy but I finally got one. I just found out I have hypothyroidism (minor) and now have to take Levothyroxine, a small dose. it is called preventative care and now saved my future expenses.
jun 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 1 1 • view
exactly. or simple accident. falling down the stairs. the opioid addiction is because of chronic conditions and many of those were due to injury. if you have a physical job your body pays the price. now take away healthcare and these people will die from street opioids like fentanyl.
jun 30, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 1 • view
yes, I am sure a 30 year old with end stage cancer and who doesn't have a job because they are dying will now get a job...this able bodied bs is pure bs. Able bodied people don't go to the Doctor and if they do it costs nothing more than the time of the Doctor.
jun 30, 2025, 5:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Mullin never paid back his PPP loan, BTW.
jun 30, 2025, 5:54 pm • 41 13 • view
1.5 million he pocketed.
jun 30, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Of course he didn’t!! 🤬
jun 30, 2025, 8:30 pm • 4 0 • view
We could start with cutting his pay.
jun 30, 2025, 5:03 pm • 21 0 • view
Why do people put this slightly-sentient thumb on TV so much?
jun 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 20 0 • view
Because Newsmaxxx wants their viewers extra dumb.
jun 30, 2025, 4:24 pm • 7 0 • view
These are average poverty line numbers they going to run up the score.
jun 30, 2025, 4:42 pm • 0 0 • view
I am convinced that if you suggested the name Markwayne Mullin to Danny McBride as a character name, he'd reject it for being too on the nose.
jun 30, 2025, 5:12 pm • 5 0 • view
Yes Markwayne you fucking idiot. How much does buying insurance cost (to get a decent plan)… yeah, about 50-60% of your income. Go back to 5th grade math, pass it if you can, then open your fucking mouth.
jun 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 5 0 • view
Also, and this complicates your math I know, but almost half of enrolled Medicaid members, are children. Can money be saved? Yes, but that’s always true of everything under the sun.
jun 30, 2025, 5:47 pm • 1 0 • view
In his thousand dollar suits, saying “let them eat cake”
jun 30, 2025, 4:52 pm • 8 0 • view
I’m sure MarkBobWayneDaryl is a good “Christian”.
jun 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 2 0 • view
Imagine if Mullin was not a simpleton and knew how to read and do basic research. And, he had enough curiosity to recognize that the richest country having 11.5% poverty rate is grossly imbalanced. His own Oklahoma sits at a 15.6% poverty rate. www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eli...
jun 30, 2025, 4:07 pm • 11 4 • view
He's removing all the disabled people. " 44.1 million - 13.4% Of the total U.S. civilian noninstitutionalized population with a disability in 2022." www.census.gov/newsroom/fac...
jun 30, 2025, 9:05 pm • 4 1 • view
He is as stupid/amoral as his name sounds
jun 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 3 0 • view
Need someone to ask him if he knows how the poverty line is determined. Spoiler alert: healthcare costs don’t factor in.
jun 30, 2025, 4:20 pm • 9 1 • view
But there’s hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars going to amagoglerocketco and there’s no room to make cuts that pay for food and healthcare for those most in need? No he won’t answer because it’s his job not to. Doing anything would require a spine. It’s his job to have no spine.
jun 30, 2025, 9:12 pm • 6 1 • view
Not all employers in the USA offer health insurance with employment. But these people know! They are cruel to please the oligarchy.
jun 30, 2025, 4:12 pm • 2 0 • view
So is he saying that 35 million people are Medicaid cheats?
jun 30, 2025, 5:58 pm • 7 2 • view
Exactly what he’s implying! Democrats need to seize this comment, then present data on the 35 million “cheats.” Show who these Americans really are: jobs, families, location, taxes paid, etc. Don’t let Repubs slander hard-working people and take away Medicaid to appease the rich and the bigoted.
jul 1, 2025, 3:29 pm • 2 0 • view
Why does it bother them? His lips are all the way up trumps ass.
jun 30, 2025, 7:55 pm • 1 0 • view
Simpleton
jun 30, 2025, 3:59 pm • 1 0 • view
Ladies and gentlemen: this is your Republican Party, miscalculating at every turn.
jun 30, 2025, 4:56 pm • 2 0 • view
Republican voters be like : "Well I'm gonna support this because it will piss off the dems ! Sure it won't make my life any better at all, in fact it will be worse than ever before, but still !"
jun 30, 2025, 4:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Gotta own them libs no matter what!
jun 30, 2025, 8:17 pm • 1 0 • view
Why isn't he asking why so many people live in poverty? What is wrong with Republicans?
jun 30, 2025, 3:55 pm • 637 31 • view
Nothing. Their sole function is to funnel wealth and power to the wealthy and powerful. That's it. Everything around us in this newly hatched dystopia is to further that goal.
jun 30, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
This!
jun 30, 2025, 5:53 pm • 0 0 • view
And also where. Most people in need are from red states. (I’m generalizing, I know)
jun 30, 2025, 5:04 pm • 1 0 • view
Hahaha, you think my red state expanded medicaid?
jun 30, 2025, 8:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Like I said, I’m generalizing on red states being far too dependent on federal aid.
jun 30, 2025, 8:12 pm • 0 0 • view
Yessss, Republican explain what’s wrong with you?
jun 30, 2025, 4:40 pm • 4 0 • view
Exactly.
jun 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 7 0 • view
much shorter list: What is NOT wrong with Republicans?
jun 30, 2025, 4:03 pm • 14 1 • view
😄
jun 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 1 0 • view
😹
jun 30, 2025, 4:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Exactly! How can we fix folks living in poverty. Maybe TAX THE RICHEST and offer education opportunities and jobs.
jun 30, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
And even if you're a little bit above poverty that doesn't mean healthcare in the US is affordable in the slightest. All Senators and Reps should have to use the shittiest marketplace plan in available in their State.
jun 30, 2025, 5:49 pm • 5 0 • view
Why aren’t Dems asking why there are so many poor people or why healthcare is so expensive? It’s not just MAGA. Dems scrubbed “universal healthcare & public option” from their 2024 platform in exchange for “access” to unaffordable healthcare. What the Dem proposal for better/cheaper healthcare?
jun 30, 2025, 4:53 pm • 13 1 • view
Not saying the Democrats aren't also bought and paid for by billionaires, and they for sure turned their back on a winning platform, taking care of working people, just look at NYC.
jun 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 1 0 • view
You know why they did? Because they ran on it for decades, and when they got close to passing it, they got crushed in the midterms. Even Biden discussing a public option didn’t drum up enough public support. A majority of voters chose to gut government spending.
jul 1, 2025, 4:35 am • 2 0 • view
Because Democrats have terrible messaging and campaigns. They are fundamentally incapable of capitalizing on popular issues. From 2009 www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/conte...
jul 1, 2025, 11:38 am • 0 0 • view
If most people support a public option, why were Democrats crushed in the 2010 midterms as backlash to the possibility of the ACA providing a public option? Why did more people who swung for Trump believe that Harris would pass M4A than those who swung for Harris?
jul 4, 2025, 10:49 am • 0 0 • view
I think what you have to understand is that, when asked on a survey, many people reflect upon its benefit to them. This is how they SHOULD approach policies, but they don’t. Because all it takes is for Republicans to talk about how non-white people would benefit more to get these people to flip.
jul 4, 2025, 10:51 am • 1 0 • view
I’m with you all the way on this one. Republicans are gutting Medicare and the minority party should have done something or something else but why didn’t they do it?
jun 30, 2025, 6:31 pm • 4 0 • view
Because they don’t have the votes? You need 60 senators to override the filibuster, and 50 senators to eliminate the filibuster (which Sinema and Manchin objected to). The closest they got to a public option was in 2009, and they literally got crushed in the midterms because of it.
jul 1, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
Because they fundraise off the anger from sustained mediocrity. It’s not a serious party.
jun 30, 2025, 6:37 pm • 4 0 • view
It's a billionaire captured party, just like all of our government institutions. They are controlled opposition.
jun 30, 2025, 6:48 pm • 2 0 • view
The vapid Dem leadership is compromised of wealthy white seniors who have absolutely no idea what it’s like to work & raise a family in the 21st century.
jun 30, 2025, 6:58 pm • 2 0 • view
Most Democratic leadership isn’t white lol. The majority of the DNC leadership team is non-white. democrats.org/leadership-d...
jul 1, 2025, 4:43 am • 2 0 • view
Pelosi, Schumer, Reid were most certainly white.
jul 1, 2025, 11:27 am • 1 0 • view
I said a non-white majority, not consensus.
jul 4, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
No, it’s that you don’t understand what the filibuster is.
jul 1, 2025, 4:37 am • 0 0 • view
Reconciliation avoids the filibuster.
jul 1, 2025, 11:27 am • 0 0 • view
Reconciliation means expanding existing federal funding. A universal healthcare system would require a termination of Medicare and Medicaid as federal programs, which is not permitted under a reconciliation bill.
jul 4, 2025, 11:05 am • 0 0 • view
Everything
jun 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 193 4 • view
🎯🎯🎯
jun 30, 2025, 4:43 pm • 38 0 • view
Correct
jun 30, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
they think it is our own fault.
jun 30, 2025, 10:50 pm • 0 0 • view
This
jul 1, 2025, 6:58 pm • 0 0 • view
They assume it's obvious - they are lazy and deserve it! Fox said so!
jul 1, 2025, 3:42 am • 0 0 • view
Their first priority is is it sadistic enough. The GOP is a mafia of pain inflicting perverts.
jun 30, 2025, 6:18 pm • 0 0 • view
It gives them boners
jun 30, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Because then he would be forced to discuss social issues and those require constructive and critical thinking skills.
jun 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 0 0 • view
He’s a sociopathic piece of shit?
jun 30, 2025, 4:26 pm • 5 0 • view
Poverty ≠ Medicaid. 72 M on Medicaid because it also covers kids, new moms, seniors & disabled—not just the 37 M below the poverty line. Apples and oranges.
jun 30, 2025, 5:40 pm • 131 9 • view
⬆️ this!
jun 30, 2025, 5:45 pm • 3 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
The Affordable Care Act, specifically under Medicaid Expansion, allows adults making up to 138% of the poverty line to receive Medicaid. I suspect the additional 35+ million people not under the poverty line are in that 100%-138% bracket.
jun 30, 2025, 6:21 pm • 4 0 • view
and the poverty line is 15,600 a year! It's insane, you can't buy food and pay rent for that much! Especially in Ca.
jun 30, 2025, 6:22 pm • 66 1 • view
If you're earning under 15,600 you're probably homeless.
jun 30, 2025, 8:27 pm • 13 0 • view
One bad day away.
jun 30, 2025, 10:38 pm • 4 0 • view
His count is way off. There are millions of children with needs whose parents can support without Medicaid.
jun 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 0 0 • view
35 million below the poverty line is such a ringing endorsement of Republican policy
jun 30, 2025, 4:30 pm • 33 6 • view
Medicaid helps working poor, people not below the poverty line, get medical insurance. Unlike for the 2 twats sitting there on TV, not everyone's employer provides medical coverage.
jul 1, 2025, 4:16 pm • 0 0 • view
He needs to be cut out of Congress!!
jun 30, 2025, 3:59 pm • 9 1 • view
There are 100 senators, and only three are richer than Mullin. Who Are the Richest U.S. Senators? share.google/XSLLWKenobO9...
jun 30, 2025, 6:15 pm • 2 0 • view
Hey markwaynejimbob, there are 35 million HOUSEHOLDS that live below the poverty line. Children are part of a household, not a household. You stupid putz.
jun 30, 2025, 6:49 pm • 9 0 • view
Exactly!
jul 1, 2025, 1:04 am • 0 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 4:13 pm • 3 1 • view
Wait, so he thinks you need to be below the poverty line before you get medicaid? Rich from a multi millionaire skumbag
jun 30, 2025, 4:05 pm • 5 0 • view
If over 70mil are on Medicaid, I don't follow his rationale for making cuts. Sounds like it needs better funding, no? That's only if he gave a fuck.
jun 30, 2025, 11:58 pm • 17 0 • view
He's trying to imply that the other 35 million are taking advantage of the system which MAGA can then point to as evidence of their false claims about fraud and waste.
jul 1, 2025, 2:11 am • 7 0 • view
Republicans' core argument that poor people should just get on it and die already isn't making their bill more popular for some reason.
jun 30, 2025, 4:29 pm • 27 5 • view
We now are in the hardened Ebenezer Scrooge Era: "Plenty of prisons," said the gentleman. ... "And the Union workhouses?" demanded Scrooge. ... "Many can't go there; and many would rather die." "If they would rather die," said Scrooge, "they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population."
jun 30, 2025, 5:48 pm • 4 1 • view
Markwayne Mullin is such a lying moron pussy. Fake ass tough guy and a boot licking little bitch.
jun 30, 2025, 5:50 pm • 2 0 • view
📌
jun 30, 2025, 4:03 pm • 1 0 • view
That left my mouth agape. The gall. The wrong-headedness of him. Healthcare should be free, it shouldn't be treated as if people are cheating the system just to stay alive.
jun 30, 2025, 4:02 pm • 12 1 • view
Nepo baby’s first experience of fear.
jun 30, 2025, 8:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Nepo baby doesn’t know how his medical bills get paid. Daddy took care of that long ago.
jun 30, 2025, 8:03 pm • 9 0 • view
MM says “they took advantage of Obama-care. He makes citizens the boogeyman, who follow the federal ACA laws made by congress. Govt employees are called wasteful, in jobs created by congress. Asylum seekers following immigration laws made by congress are called criminals. Citizens are their problem.
jun 30, 2025, 4:21 pm • 4 0 • view
Do they realize how many 'able-bodied individuals ' work multiple jobs that OFFER NO INSURANCE and still need ACA? They know. They're ignoring it for cover. There will be a reckoning.
jun 30, 2025, 4:38 pm • 14 2 • view
Yes. That is what we're gonna tell him. He won't listen though.
jun 30, 2025, 4:09 pm • 6 0 • view
Show me on the filly where the man hurt you
jun 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 2 0 • view
I meant dolly. Lol
jun 30, 2025, 9:43 pm • 0 0 • view
So we just kill off the sick and the elderly. Let em die, I say!! Republicans are so far out of touch they can’t even effectively masterbate
jun 30, 2025, 5:41 pm • 1 0 • view
His cruelty is showing, and his dishonesty. His math ignores that there are 37 million CHILDREN for whom Medicaid is their only health care coverage, which immediately closes his alleged gap. His glib suggestion about work requirements ignores that those have been repeatedly blocked by the courts.
jun 30, 2025, 8:51 pm • 17 4 • view
Uh huh 👇
jun 30, 2025, 4:18 pm • 1 0 • view
This nasty POS doesn’t grasp that many disabled & elderly qualify for Medicaid, including veterans, and do not have to be below the poverty level. It’s due to a medical condition. Also, families can be above the pov level & get CHIP for children as income levels for kids are higher than adults.
jul 1, 2025, 2:14 pm • 5 1 • view
He's a dipshit fake Christian. He knows nothing about the teachings of Jesus and gets money from the Israel lobby. Total loud mouth that cosplays as a tough guy and pretends he's served. LOL! He's rich and his healthcare is paid for by the taxpayer. Sick he's even talking about Medicaid cuts.
jun 30, 2025, 4:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Struggling people should be pushed below the poverty line because billionaires need to pay less than the 8% average income tax they pay now? Got it, Satan.
jun 30, 2025, 7:33 pm • 29 3 • view
Yes, no help for your disabling chronic conditions unless your family makes less than $30,000/ year. Which wouldn’t even cover rent on a two-bedroom apartment where I live.
jun 30, 2025, 9:03 pm • 6 0 • view
Let's start with cutting Rupar
jun 30, 2025, 4:43 pm • 2 0 • view
“We can still drop the quality of life of so many people! We can fucking tank it!”
jun 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 6 1 • view
We need 70 million below that line so our billionaire class can do better!
jun 30, 2025, 6:16 pm • 1 0 • view
Hi Markwayne, poverty line for an individual in US is $14,891/year. You think anybody earning over $15K can afford health insurance? You're out of your mind or breathtakingly ignorant.
jun 30, 2025, 9:58 pm • 285 19 • view
What a coincidence. As a Senator Markwayne roughly makes that a MONTH.
jun 30, 2025, 10:59 pm • 0 0 • view
Both. Definitely both.
jul 1, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
Exactly
jul 1, 2025, 5:19 am • 1 0 • view
I mean...his name is Markwayne...I wouldn't put anything past him .
jun 30, 2025, 11:48 pm • 2 0 • view
Mar Quayne
jul 1, 2025, 1:58 am • 2 0 • view
It's a little from column A and a little from column B, and a column C is objective cruelty and wanting people to suffer.
jul 1, 2025, 3:37 am • 14 1 • view
Yeah a cheap health insurance plan is around $500 a month - for a family at least $1000. That’s the entire poverty line salary without paying rent and food.
jul 1, 2025, 2:34 am • 2 2 • view
At a poverty line salary people should be getting truly free Medicaid. At somewhat above that, they should be getting much cheaper Marketplace policies, which really do exist www.usa.gov/health-insur... (Republicans hid them by cutting their marketing budgets)
jul 1, 2025, 2:48 am • 1 1 • view
Then if you actually have to use a low cost/free plan you are faced with $7K to $10K deductible, co-pays etc
jul 1, 2025, 12:40 pm • 0 0 • view
One big problem or the hoops you have to jump through to get assistance for the high deductibles on the ACA policies. Yes you can get a free bronze plan but you have to apply for help to make any use of it. I use my one free visit to get prescriptions and that was it.
jul 1, 2025, 6:11 am • 1 0 • view
So annoyed that Markwayne was invited to opine…no one should listen to this guy. He is the first Senator to serve who does not have a Bachelor’s degree and is not suited to lecture on economics. My Beagle was available …
jul 1, 2025, 1:47 am • 2 1 • view
His constituents will eat it up, tho. They're trying to convince everyone that the only people mooching off the system are people that don't deserve it. So when your medicaid gets cut off, you'll be too embarrassed to fight for it. They're wrong. And stupid. Can't wait for him to FAFO.
jun 30, 2025, 11:20 pm • 1 1 • view
jun 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 9 0 • view
Exactly. I was trying to live on about $22K a year, and that barely pays rent (1250/month, but landlord could get up to 2000, they would love me to leave, but where would I go?). Anyhoo, before I ran out, I used savings to supplement, so twice that, almost $30K is what I needed. 1/2
jul 1, 2025, 2:15 am • 6 1 • view
That's with nothing really fancy, car, no vacation really. Health insurance, yeah, deductibles and co-insurance hit hard with my health issues, especially see specialists (orthopedic, rheumatology). So twice poverty level month I needed ---explains that 70 million people needing medicaid help. 2/2
jul 1, 2025, 2:15 am • 5 0 • view
jul 1, 2025, 2:15 am • 1 0 • view
I mean, $15,000/year is what a lot of people pay for health insurance alone.
jun 30, 2025, 10:02 pm • 103 3 • view
I pay 1,500 month for two healthy ppl in California
jun 30, 2025, 11:54 pm • 25 0 • view
1.500? I pay about 3-400 in Spain and that’s including pension payments
jul 1, 2025, 7:23 am • 2 0 • view
You are getting robbed
jul 1, 2025, 7:23 am • 3 0 • view
When people say "you still pay for a public service with greater tax", while someone champion another's country public system. I love to point out it's still cheaper than the US system. In Australia we each pay 7,000 a year, in tax, for a public system. For everyone. It's worth it.
jul 1, 2025, 1:18 am • 20 0 • view
"But that's socialism!!!!" So? It's *much* cheaper than the US system because the US system is designed for rent-seeking private insurers to siphon off surplus value.
jul 1, 2025, 1:36 am • 2 0 • view
What’s your medical bills like though?? Ever get emergency surgery and a fun $25k bill??
jul 1, 2025, 12:08 pm • 0 0 • view
Not in Australia. I think you'll get charged for the ambulance if you need one, but that's the only bill you'll get. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_...
jul 1, 2025, 12:43 pm • 5 0 • view
Depends on the state with an ambulance service. In Tasmania it doesn't cost.
jul 1, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
You know what’s even crazier? My physicians don’t want to deal with insurance so I actually have to pay them and try to get reimbursement from insurance company.
jul 1, 2025, 1:22 am • 5 0 • view
Ugh. I have to deal with some of that too--not from physicians but supplier of a medical device I have to use. Then there's dentistry, an unending horror where insurers only pay a fraction for a lot of services (even in Europe, I believe).
jul 1, 2025, 1:32 am • 2 0 • view
I can imagine. There would be a disconnect with cost. One side would be trying to minimise while the other want to maximise profits. At least with a public system they're the largest provider around and it's in their best interest to have good outcomes while lowering cost.
jul 1, 2025, 1:35 am • 3 0 • view
I don't want to dump on Obama, because what they did accomplish was incredibly difficult and made things so much better than they used to be, but in comparison with a sensible country (some pretty right-wing, like Singapore) it's ridiculous. And vulnerable as we're seeing tonight.
jul 1, 2025, 1:47 am • 5 1 • view
I would be amazed if a family paid less than $1k/mos. These people are out of their minds and out of touch.
jul 1, 2025, 12:31 am • 2 0 • view
There are Obamacare Marketplace subsidies that get low-income people very low premiums, in many cases $0/month. Of course Mullins's party is trying to take those away too. www.kff.org/policy-watch... Those provisions will take healthcare away from more people than the Medicaid changes.
jul 1, 2025, 12:37 am • 4 1 • view
I find healthcare very confusing and clearly am not alone. I feel like some of the Medicaid cuts include these subsidies bc they are Medicaid by another name, but again I don’t fully get it. I have managed care (kaiser) but I know some under it are there under Medicare I think. It’s so confusing…
jul 1, 2025, 12:44 am • 3 0 • view
It is indeed confusing. Here's a quick tutorial: 1. Medicaid is for low-income people and is a true single-payer system. 2. Medicare is for retired and disabled people and makes you pay premiums and copays: if you're too poor, there's a Medicaid *supplement* program that will help.
jul 1, 2025, 1:13 am • 2 1 • view
3. Health Insurance Marketplace, the Obama contribution, is private insurance you can buy online if your employer doesn't pay for health insurance, and it's pretty good, especially for low-income but not really poor people. When my son the bartender turned 26 and got kicked off my employer policy...
jul 1, 2025, 1:19 am • 3 0 • view
...I told him I thought he could get an Obamacare policy but didn't try to help him beyond advice; it took him a year (luckily he's been incredibly healthy) but he did it. The GOP bill may make it unaffordable by cutting the subsidy, but I don't know yet.
jul 1, 2025, 1:23 am • 3 0 • view
4. Medicare Advantage is a way for private insurers to suck money out of the Medicare program, a supplemental policy that may pay for some things where Medicare is unhelpful, but a lot of people don't think it's worthwhile.
jul 1, 2025, 1:28 am • 3 0 • view
The subsidies are the disaster no one's talking about . Heavy subsidies for people working but not making much. Here in Maine, less than $100/mo for a silver plan. (Still deductibles, etc. but you're buying preventative/routine stuff...
jul 1, 2025, 1:35 am • 3 0 • view
Do you have a theory why they're not talking about it? It's only just occurred to me what a big deal it is, not a subject I've been spending a lot of time on in recent years, but Chris Murphy or whoever has to be aware.
jul 1, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
....and a pretty hard cap on the size of the hole something major can blow in your budget.)
jul 1, 2025, 1:35 am • 1 0 • view
Markwayne Moron...
jun 30, 2025, 10:48 pm • 0 0 • view
This really makes you think
jul 3, 2025, 9:16 pm • 1 0 • view
So now 70 million will be below the poverty line.
jun 30, 2025, 5:43 pm • 8 0 • view
In other words, Republicans do not value human life. Fed gov’t can “pay for” healthcare for all of us. “There is nothing to prevent the federal government from creating as much money as it wants and paying it to somebody." - Former Fed Chief Alan Greenspan 2005. Keep us sick & poor
jun 30, 2025, 7:03 pm • 4 0 • view
His plumbing company regularly rips people off, but he wants you to think he's a self-made success. This man has the IQ of a sponge - I hope Oklahoma can get rid of him!
jun 30, 2025, 5:10 pm • 6 0 • view
Is he really this stupid?!
jul 1, 2025, 1:32 am • 2 0 • view
Yes. Yes he is that stupid.
jul 1, 2025, 2:45 am • 4 0 • view
Is Senator Mullin really that dumb? There is such a thing as the ‘working poor’
jun 30, 2025, 5:32 pm • 8 0 • view
is he named after two of his possible daddys?
jun 30, 2025, 5:08 pm • 4 1 • view
Well, nobody else has posted it which means I'm morally obliged to ... 😂
jun 30, 2025, 7:01 pm • 118 12 • view
He'd fight them all. True story!
jun 30, 2025, 8:26 pm • 1 0 • view
I just posted asking for anyone to post this picture Thank you. That poser little coward makes me nauseous
jun 30, 2025, 8:59 pm • 2 0 • view
I aim to please! 😂
jun 30, 2025, 9:12 pm • 2 0 • view
This tweet should accompany every photo of him on J6
jun 30, 2025, 10:40 pm • 1 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 11:55 pm • 1 0 • view
He’s another POS.
jun 30, 2025, 10:41 pm • 3 0 • view
👏👏👏👏
jul 1, 2025, 12:03 am • 2 0 • view
That's the same face a toddler makes when they're laying an egg in their diaper in the corner
jun 30, 2025, 7:06 pm • 31 0 • view
He probably has the same mental acuity.
jun 30, 2025, 7:09 pm • 9 0 • view
Certainly the same emotional intelligence. Not nearly the same capacity for empathy, though
jun 30, 2025, 7:11 pm • 12 0 • view
He's like a level one NPC opponent in Red Dead Redemption or Skyrim. Can be dispatched with a wooden spoon and very little effort ...
jun 30, 2025, 7:19 pm • 10 0 • view
Taking a fear squat, hoping the Capitol Shit-Smearing Party will remember to pass him by.
jun 30, 2025, 7:13 pm • 3 0 • view
Nope. He's was spring-loading himself ready to POUNCE and save America. Or so he believes ...
jun 30, 2025, 7:20 pm • 1 0 • view
Bro looks scared.
jun 30, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
Markwayne must be excited about Tuberville running for Gov. Then he’ll be unchallenged for America’s Dumbest Senator!
jun 30, 2025, 4:11 pm • 4 1 • view
Republicans take the money and 'worry about details' later. Frauds & thieves
jun 30, 2025, 7:34 pm • 48 5 • view
Agree 💯🙏⚖️🇺🇸
jun 30, 2025, 11:41 pm • 1 0 • view
It just proves they're clueless as to how healthcare is run. It's not "kicking" people off insurance, it's not paying providers for the work they perform. Do they REALLY think people aren't going to be sick? No, they'll get so sick because they can't get preventative care they'll be using the ER 🙄
jul 1, 2025, 12:47 am • 8 1 • view
He's counting chips in there. People who live juuuust above the poverty line but don't have employer coverage or just can't afford coverage
jun 30, 2025, 6:32 pm • 4 0 • view
Markwayne Mullin. What a perfect name for this ignorant goober. So Markwayne, you’re not gonna tell us - using your own figures - there’s overwhelming need and poverty in this country? Piss off.
jun 30, 2025, 6:03 pm • 9 0 • view
This has got to be the laziest way to journo — Rupar the megaphone! smh Try educating your followers for once. Hey #Mullen, listen up, stupid! 👇
jun 30, 2025, 7:12 pm • 9 1 • view
Valdeck makes the point.
jun 30, 2025, 7:42 pm • 1 0 • view
The fact that so many people are on it just shows how much we need universal health care. The government is a service, not a business.
jun 30, 2025, 4:06 pm • 3 0 • view
Odd how they never interview Rick Scott about tackling “waste, fraud and abuse” of Medicaid….wonder why that is????
jun 30, 2025, 3:59 pm • 5 0 • view
Does he think all 70 million people on Medicaid are workers or something? I'm not demented enough to understand what he's implying there.
jun 30, 2025, 3:57 pm • 3 0 • view
My God, the disconnect.
jun 30, 2025, 5:14 pm • 1 0 • view
Make this Fuck live below the poverty line for one week
jun 30, 2025, 6:05 pm • 11 1 • view
Is he saying people who have an income slightly about the poverty can afford to buy healthcare insurance? Or is he saying instead that they can afford to pay medical bills out-of-pocket? Has he been asked that?
jun 30, 2025, 6:23 pm • 16 1 • view
*slightly above the poverty level can
jun 30, 2025, 8:54 pm • 2 0 • view
He's saying he expects every American citizen to make their way in this world with no help whatsoever and if it cause their death, so be it. I've heard these assholes talk it up, for years, in bars. They have the answer for everything and it's always a simple one. Because they are.
jun 30, 2025, 6:34 pm • 12 2 • view
Exactly.
jun 30, 2025, 9:01 pm • 2 0 • view
So he either doesn’t know that Medicaid serves people with disabilities or he doesn’t want people to realize it until it’s too late
jun 30, 2025, 4:07 pm • 2 0 • view
Markwayne is getting stupider by the second.
jun 30, 2025, 10:04 pm • 3 0 • view
He like most of his ilk are taking their stupidity straight to the bank🤬
jun 30, 2025, 10:42 pm • 2 1 • view
Now THAT'S a FACT!!!
jun 30, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
They say never trust a man with two first names, and for good reason. But I dont think that prepared me for two who have two first names in their first name alone.
jul 1, 2025, 12:58 am • 1 0 • view
And the irony that my name contains "Jon" and "Nathan" isnt lost on me, lol
jul 1, 2025, 12:59 am • 1 0 • view
Moron. Lying moron.
jun 30, 2025, 6:35 pm • 3 0 • view
Anywho... Mt 25:31-40
jul 1, 2025, 1:08 pm • 1 0 • view
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jun 30, 2025, 7:10 pm • 1 0 • view
Every time he opens his mouth he shows his stupidity. He has no idea who qualifies for Medicaid. Idiot.
jun 30, 2025, 5:23 pm • 3 0 • view
There are 902 Billionaires in the US, are you telling us they need another tax break at the expense of 70 million people??
jul 1, 2025, 2:47 am • 136 13 • view
That is exactly what they are saying. I’m not sure why their base doesn’t get this.
jul 1, 2025, 10:44 pm • 2 0 • view
BREAKING: MarkFuck Mullins cannot do math - fucking traitor
jun 30, 2025, 6:00 pm • 8 0 • view
A child born in America dreams of being poor. These kids want to be hungry. They want underfunded schools. They want Grandpa to die because the closest hospital is 2 hrs away. They want their disabled mom to go to work. They want dad working f/t w/o benefits. Screw Sen Mullin & the GOP!!!
jun 30, 2025, 8:41 pm • 55 3 • view
The worst are the ones that grew up on public assistance like RICK SCOTT and Paul Ryan but dont want anyone else to have some help as CHILDREN!! The worst scumbags and it is racial it is racial
jun 30, 2025, 10:57 pm • 5 0 • view
If they didn’t want that, they should have chosen different parents!
jun 30, 2025, 8:59 pm • 16 1 • view
jun 30, 2025, 10:00 pm • 4 0 • view
🙏❤️❤️❤️
jun 30, 2025, 8:44 pm • 1 0 • view
Easy for someone who will be provided health insurance until he dies, BY US, via OUR TAXES.
jun 30, 2025, 5:34 pm • 31 0 • view
This.
jun 30, 2025, 6:17 pm • 3 0 • view
Medicaid pays the hospital bills. People don't live off of it.
jun 30, 2025, 7:34 pm • 169 5 • view
"Yeah, but Medicaid paying the hospital bills might allow you to put food on the table and we just can't have that, now, can we?" So, so sick of these motherless monsters.
jun 30, 2025, 8:19 pm • 89 4 • view
Speaker Mike Johnson’s family was heavily dependent on the social safety net. He’d probably be working at a Walmart right now without all of the government help his family received. Pulling up the ladder behind him. It’s craven.
jun 30, 2025, 11:07 pm • 23 0 • view
jun 30, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 2 • view
Remember when they told us "Obamacare was all death panels"? My how the turn tables.
jun 30, 2025, 9:11 pm • 5 0 • view
Wish they would put the same effort into going after all the Congress and associates who funnel federal dollars into their “charities”, LLC’s, Donors businesses, and their own private resorts and businesses.
jun 30, 2025, 5:02 pm • 2 0 • view
Tax the billionaires at 70% - problem solved
jun 30, 2025, 9:52 pm • 10 1 • view
Didn’t it used to like 90% or am I 💤💭
jun 30, 2025, 10:43 pm • 2 0 • view
Medicare pays bills. It isn’t used like money. Tell me you are an idiot without telling me.
jun 30, 2025, 8:24 pm • 22 4 • view
At least he doesn’t have to try to hard
jul 1, 2025, 12:04 am • 0 0 • view
Lets cut his salary for doing a lousy job.
jun 30, 2025, 4:54 pm • 4 0 • view
Magat math
jun 30, 2025, 3:56 pm • 2 0 • view
This guy can’t math
jun 30, 2025, 7:27 pm • 10 0 • view
Every time he opens his mouth he leaves us with no doubt he's an idiot.
jun 30, 2025, 7:57 pm • 7 1 • view
even when he is quiet there is no doubt
jun 30, 2025, 9:55 pm • 1 1 • view
You can't imagine the hatred i feel for someone who never needed financial help, because they were customers at Dad's Bank and Do not payback. How and who deserves to stay or go, when people die, there's others waiting in line for help. Unfortunately, no one started out dreaming to be poor enough.
jun 30, 2025, 5:31 pm • 69 12 • view
Yes I can😞
jun 30, 2025, 6:02 pm • 13 0 • view
same, I was so poor when I was a child, this is cruel
jun 30, 2025, 6:22 pm • 22 0 • view
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jun 30, 2025, 6:36 pm • 15 8 • view
I remember that, made in LA, when everyone came here for the music awards!
jun 30, 2025, 6:54 pm • 3 0 • view
jul 2, 2025, 11:23 pm • 1 0 • view
How many wealthy people could simply pay their share, eliminating the problem? It’s sick to take from the poor, you Reverse Robin Hood!
jun 30, 2025, 4:00 pm • 84 10 • view
These ain’t no Robin Hood’s, just thieving hoods.
jun 30, 2025, 5:33 pm • 28 2 • view
True. We need to change that.
jun 30, 2025, 5:39 pm • 9 0 • view
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jul 1, 2025, 1:21 am • 6 2 • view
Evil incarnate
jul 1, 2025, 3:27 am • 2 0 • view
This is virtually the Republicans vanquishing the existence of every person who is working class —and they want to make middle class indentured servants. Or if you prefer… Gilded Age Redux but demoting the middle class to servant class and near slave wage laborers.
jun 30, 2025, 9:38 pm • 11 2 • view
Reality. Exactly. Very well explained.
jun 30, 2025, 9:45 pm • 4 0 • view
Is the poverty line based on minimum wage? Because that might be the source of the discrepancy. If you make a little more than minimum wage but have no employer health insurance what are you supposed to do?
jun 30, 2025, 5:21 pm • 8 0 • view
Magically be able to afford private insurance. Plus this abomination of a bill also bars people who lose Medicaid from getting insurance on the ACA.
jun 30, 2025, 6:03 pm • 6 0 • view
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jun 30, 2025, 8:24 pm • 6 5 • view
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jun 30, 2025, 10:40 pm • 0 1 • view
Stop this budget bill CALL your senators You, your children, grandchildren, and your aging parents are depending on YOU @5calls.org
jun 30, 2025, 10:56 pm • 1 0 • view
Stop this budget bill CALL your senators You, your children, grandchildren, and your aging parents are depending on YOU @5calls.org
jun 30, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
This is straight up socialism for the rich. They load all republicans pockets with big money. Disgusting!
jun 30, 2025, 5:00 pm • 1 0 • view
The reason those other recipients aren't also below the poverty line is that MEDICAID IS KEEPING THEM FROM FALLING BELOW THE POVERTY LINE.
jul 1, 2025, 2:00 pm • 50 1 • view
The options then are raise the poverty line or tax the rich.
jun 30, 2025, 5:20 pm • 4 0 • view
Words just don’t have meaning anymore. “Waste, fraud and abuse” are literally just a stand-in for policies republicans don’t like. Because if it was truly fraudulent behavior, that hasn’t been rooted out yet, then simply decreasing the budget would be just as likely to remove “deserving” people
jun 30, 2025, 4:12 pm • 4 0 • view