looming recessions, war in the middle east, feels like high school again
Dylan Scott
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Dylan Scott
@dylanlscott
Senior correspondent and editor for @voxdotcom. Send news tips to [email protected]. Gonna kick the darkness till it bleeds daylight.
- First death in the ongoing measles outbreak, per the Texas health department. Unvaccinated school-aged child.
- Rs are betting they can destroy the social safety net for millions of Americans and enough of them won't notice or won't care enough to vote on it the next time around. There will be much rejoicing after passage today. I'll be curious to see how this bet pays out in 5-10 years
- Thousands of projected deaths per year is “immaterial”Replying to @JDVanceEverything else—the CBO score, the proper baseline, the minutiae of the Medicaid policy—is immaterial compared to the ICE money and immigration enforcement provisions.
- It’s worth stipulating what millions of people losing Medicaid really means: Fewer people are going to get medical services and some of those people are going to die.
- I haven’t done much of the “since I left DC” nonsense, but this week, it’s really hit me how divorced the political and policy conversations can be from the lived experiences of normal people — and how blind many people are to the consequences of The Great Game they are playing
- I can go buy Coke with cane sugar at my grocery store *right now*Coca-Cola said it will add a cane-sugar version of its trademark cola to its US lineup this fall, confirming a recent announcement by President Trump. trib.al/O7xPOSS
- Pretty much my entire time covering health care has been defined by the Affordable Care Act (and then Covid). Now we're entering the era of the "Big Beautiful Bill" and its Medicaid cuts:
- should be easy, Hacks is better than The Bear“Is Hacks the perfect show? No. But in this moment, we want comedy to be rewarded.” @joereid goes inside the whisper campaign to unseat The Bear as the Emmy’s Best Comedy vulture.com/article/how-ha…
- Replying to @dylanlscottIt may not be intuitive, but cutting $1 trillion from Medicaid and leaving millions more people uninsured will raise costs for *everyone*. When people go to the ER without insurance, that raises *your* premiums:
- okay i came back
- But don't worry, states will be able to effectively implement a Medicaid work requirement and only the "undeserving" who shouldn't have coverage will lose it. For sure, man, for sure:
- Replying to @dylanlscottnot a particularly novel thought, but it is true that once you leave the bubble, you can see how small it is more clearly
- the teenagers wearing blink 182 vintage are committing ageism imo
