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Honestly. We really don't care up here if people in the US want to die of mesethelioma.
But this isn't about US manufaqcturers suddenly wanting to pump their proucts full of that sweet, sweet asbestos fibre (which I miss in many products), but nullifying liability.
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Forever chemicals, which take hundreds or thousands of years to break down in the environment, are a family of as many as 15,000 human-made chemicals that have become pervasive in U.S. tap water — as well as in human beings...
In 2024, President Joe Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency set limits for the first time on six types of forever chemicals, restricting their prevalence in drinking water. If utilities detected these compounds above the designated thresholds, the Biden-era rule required that they filter them out by 2029.
But now, the Trump administration is watering down these policies. The EPA recently said it plans to “rescind” and “reconsider” limits on four of the six PFAS covered by the Biden-era rule. For the other two forever chemicals, companies now have until 2031 to eliminate them from the drinking supply.
Well...hold our beer, please.U.S. Cases in 2025 as of 13-Jun-2025
Total cases: 1197 up from 1168 last week
Age
- Under 5 years: 347 (29%)
- 5-19 years: 446 (37%)
- 20+ years: 393 (33%)
- Age unknown: 11 (1%)
Vaccination Status
- Unvaccinated or Unknown: 95%
- One MMR dose: 2%
- Two MMR doses: 3%
U.S. Hospitalizations in 2025: 12% (144 of 1197) - 7 new hospitalizations this week
Percent of Age Group Hospitalized
- Under 5 years: 21% (72 of 347)
- 5-19 years: 8% (35 of 446)
- 20+ years: 9% (36 of 393)
- Age unknown: 9% (1 of 11)
U.S. Deaths in 2025 : 3
Calling this out in context to Medicaid and Mitch McConnell [R-KY] being quoted yesterday as saying that Republicans should vote for the Big Ugly Bill because "people will get over it".The "Big Beautiful Bill" will cut Medicaid by a number somewhere around 400-600 billion over a 10 year period. It would also mandate at least 80 hours of work per month for adult recipients under age 65, however that is not enough hours/month for most people to qualify for employer-based health insurance.
- The State where most of the Medicaid recipients are over age 18? Kentucky! Years ago, Kentucky developed a robust Medicaid program. 35% of KY's Medicaid recipients are age 27-44 and 30% are 45-64. Only 9% are under age 18. Kentucky has 1,467,416 people on Medicaid - that's 32% of the population of Kentucky!
Senate Bill Would Make Deep Cuts to Medicaid, Setting Up Fight With House
While the House measure would add a new work requirement to Medicaid for childless adults, the Senate proposal would expand its application to the parents of older children. It also would crack down even harder than the House bill on strategies that many states have developed to tax medical providers and pay them higher prices for Medicaid services.
Nearly two-thirds of adults oppose President Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” approved in May by the House of Representatives, according to a KFF poll released Tuesday.
And even Trump’s most ardent supporters like the legislation a lot less when they learn how it would cut federal spending on health programs, the poll shows.
The KFF poll found that about 61% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents — and 72% of the subset who identify with Trump’s “Make American Great Again” movement — support the bill, which would extend many of Trump’s 2017 tax cuts while reducing spending on domestic programs, including cutting billions from Medicaid.
But when pollsters told survey respondents about the bill’s consequences for health care, opposition grew, including among MAGA supporters.
For example, after being told that the bill would decrease funding for local hospitals and increase the number of people without health insurance, support among those who back MAGA dropped more than 20 percentage points — resulting in fewer than half the group still backing the bill.
If the One Big Beautiful Bill Act is signed into law, it would result in a $50.4 billion reduction in federal Medicaid spending on rural hospitals over the next decade, which could put 338 rural hospitals at risk of closure, according to new analyses.
The American Hospital Association (Opens in a new window) (AHA) estimates that the passage of this legislation would result in a $50.4 billion reduction (Opens in a new window) in federal Medicaid spending on rural hospitals over the next decade, as well as 1.8 million people in rural communities losing their Medicaid coverage.
Basically, the same solution. Dead people don't complain... or vote you out of office.Well, as McConnell said 'They'll get over it' and as Ernst told them 'You're all going to die anyway'.
No, I don't think that's their goal. Their goal is to destroy as much of the New Deal, the Great Society and Obamacare as possible. It's been their goal but they weren't able to find even sociopaths willing to sign on to that agenda. Trump is the sociopath who will barter without regard to what the impacts are... unless they affect him.So you agree. Their objective is to create conditions that kill people.
No. Their objective is to not provide conditions to help people live.So you agree. Their objective is to create conditions that kill people.
