(07-04-2025, 10:05 PM)copycat Wrote:

(07-03-2025, 09:09 PM)Jag149 Wrote: First no pork in there. The parliamentarian would have x'd it out immediately.  Also every penny of pork would have been identified by the democrats and multiplied by infinity. LOL

Next during COVID the Feds upped the ratio of 9 fed dollars to 1 state dollar. This was reduced to almost pre-covid.  That means all the rural hospitals are actually in better shape payment wise than before COVID. They are ok as long as they do not try to cover illegal alien costs with fed dollars.

A cap of the "special" tax states could charge providers for medicare and medicaid. This and the 9 to 1 pay ratio above is how New York, Minnesota and New York (and a few other blue states) were paying for illegal benefits. 

I am unsure it is still in there but those states that remove the asset test for seniors to qualify for Medicaid (not Medicare) get a lot less money. What was occurring was an elderly senior could get Medicaid even though they were multi millionaires. (remember the "special" tax above....

is a 900+ page bill slugging through it just like I did a Democrat one earlier.  Yea I should get out more often I know.

I define pork as unnecessary spending.  One year from now the national debt will be greater than it is today.  No different from the last time Trump pushed through a BBB.