Stunned Trump voter’s medication costs $20,000 a month, realizes Medicaid cut means doom – We Got This Covered

Donald Trump voters up and down the nation are suddenly feeling like turkeys who enthusiastically voted for Thanksgiving. Whether it’s families who’ve had a member snatched by ICE or business owners whose profits have been destroyed by tariff chaos, many are sorely regretting their vote.

But the true scale of that regret is likely to be felt over the coming months as the cuts to Medicaid from the Big, Beautiful Bill become apparent. Trump spent his 2024 campaign insisting that he had no plans to cut Medicaid.

On Feb. 18 in an interview he said “none of that stuff is going to be touched”, on Feb. 26 he told a Cabinet meeting “we’re not going to touch it”, and on May 4 he told journalists he’d veto any bill that includes Medicaid cuts, saying “they’re not cutting it”, underlining: “We’re not cutting Medicaid, we’re not cutting Medicare.”

Well, Trump lied. Medicaid is being cut and now MAGA devotees are realizing they’re in the FO phase of FAFO. A video posted by More Perfect Union on TikTok shows Trump voters in California’s 22nd Congressional District ruing the day they chose to vote Trump:

One Trump voter, who’s on an oxygen tank, explains: “My medication, it runs $20,000 a month without insurance. I make $800 a month. That will kill me. That would kill my friends. That would kill millions of people in this country if they lose their health care”. Well, yeah, that’s the whole idea.

The interviewer also speaks to 64-year-old Trump voter Irma Arrendondo. She’s seriously ill and requires complex medical care, while also being the full-time caregiver for her daughter with cerebral palsy, and her sister with Turner’s syndrome.

“The medication that my daughter takes for seizures. I won’t be able to afford it, so we feel helpless. If those cuts come, you know, what are we going to do? … I feel like they are stabbing us in the back. Trump promised a lot of things. I thought it would be more family values.”

The interview concludes with Arrendondo being asked if she could go back knowing what she knows now, she’d change her vote. She shakes her head and says she simply wouldn’t vote for either candidate.

Should we feel sorry for them?

If you’re MAGA and feeling the urge to dismiss these unfortunate people as unfortunate but necessary sacrifices on the path to progress, just remember that you, I, and pretty much everyone else reading this are only one unfortunate accident away from suddenly having to rely on the state for care.

What society looks like once the safety net has been torn away is anyone’s guess (and that safety net is already threadbare and full of holes). But make no mistake, it’s not going to be pretty and we’re going to have to dig an awful lot of graves.