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  • GOP Lawmaker Branded ‘Hypocrite’ After Declaring the Left ‘Scared’ Doctors Over Her Ectopic Pregnancy: ‘You Voted for This’

    GOP Lawmaker Branded ‘Hypocrite’ After Declaring the Left ‘Scared’ Doctors Over Her Ectopic Pregnancy: ‘You Voted for This’

    A Republican lawmaker is being branded a “hypocrite” online after she accused the left of scaring doctors and healthcare providers after she had to plead for her ectopic pregnancy to be treated.

    Florida Rep. Kat Cammack revealed in a Wall Street Journal article earlier this week that she experienced an ectopic pregnancy in May 2024. However, due to Florida implementing bans against abortions after six weeks, medical providers were hesitant to give her the care that would save her life.

    However, despite abortion bans being largely pushed and passed by Republican legislators, Cammack blamed the left for her health scare, accusing them of “fearmongering” which she said left doctors “scared” to provide care.


    “These healthcare providers had been receiving pro-abortion lobby ads, to the tune of millions of dollars being spent on these ads that were threatening and scaring doctors away from helping women, saying that they could lose their license, they could go to jail,” Cammack said in a Fox News interview Thursday.

    Cammack said she tried to explain how she could still receive care under the law, but the providers “felt like they couldn’t do anything.”

    “It dawned on me as I was sitting there with my husband: this is what women have been experiencing because of the fearmongering around women’s healthcare. The left absolutely played a role in making sure that doctors and women were scared to seek out the help that they needed,” she continued.

    After Cammack’s interview was shared online, social media users responded with backlash. Several users accused her of not grasping the implications of a ban like Florida’s and claimed that her experience was her “fault.”


    “The left said keep government out of healthcare. You voted for this,” one user commented. Another added, “It was the right who put into place all these abortion bans. Peak gaslighting.”

    “The absolute worst kind of hypocrite. She nearly died because of her own stupid party and she’s out there shilling for them like it was nothing,” an X user chided. One user declared, “Sis this is you and your party’s fault.”


    “A bill written by the right, supported by the right, passed by the right, and signed by the right. Yet, she blames the people who fought AGAINST it! Looks like Kat just discovered that the bill she supported has consequences,” another wrote.

    Originally published on Latin Times



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  • Conservative Radio Host Turns on GOP Senator After RFK Jr Fires Entire Vaccine Panel: ‘Coward’

    Conservative Radio Host Turns on GOP Senator After RFK Jr Fires Entire Vaccine Panel: ‘Coward’

    A conservative radio host and former politician has slammed a Republican Senator for not stopping Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. before he dissolved an entire advisory panel of vaccine specialists.

    Radio host and former city council member Erick Erickson took to social media to lambaste Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy after Kennedy “retired” all 17 members of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) immunization advisory panel on Monday.

    “Senator @BillCassidy could have stopped this, but was a coward,” Erickson said on X (formerly Twitter).



    “Cassidy, as Chairman of the committee that reviewed Kennedy could have single handedly blocked his nomination and chose not to,” he continued, replying to his own post.


    Social media users took to the replies of Erickson’s post to echo his frustrations.

    “Don’t worry Erick, since this is something @BillCassidy assured us would not happen based on a promise he secured from RFK, I am sure he is now going to hold RFK to account (as he promised us he would). Is that not correct, @SenBillCassidy?” said one user.


    “Disease and infection knows no color, gender, socioeconomic class, nothing. I keep saying the decimation of CDC and HHS is the real ticking bomb in this country. Hope these judges or someone can step in before it’s too late,” added another.


    “I feel ya, but don’t let all the other senators off the hook either. They ll knew it was a bad idea,” said a third.


    “@BillCassidy will find karma is not just a bitch but also a butcher. Someday, someone he loves will be struck by something and he will know what he should have done to save that person and everyone else he stamped with the RFK Death Sentence,” wrote a fourth.


    Cassidy also acknowledged Kennedy’s removal of the 17 panel members on Monday.

    “Of course, now the fear is that the ACIP will be filled up with people who know nothing about vaccines except suspicion. I’ve just spoken with Secretary Kennedy, and I’ll continue to talk with him to ensure this is not the case,” he wrote on X.


    On Monday, RFK Jr. published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal announcing that he would be relieving all 17 of the independent vaccine experts on ACIP of their duties.

    “The committee has been plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine. It has never recommended against a vaccine—even those later withdrawn for safety reasons,” Kennedy wrote.

    Cassidy, who supported RFK Jr.’s nomination and subsequent confirmation for Health Secretary, has been an outspoken proponent of vaccines, especially in the wake of the recent measles outbreak in Texas.

    “This is a serious measles outbreak in Texas. The measles vaccine has been proven safe & effective since 1963,” he said on X in February.



    Originally published on Latin Times



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  • GOP Senator Ridiculed for Insisting Americans ‘Transitioning From Medicaid’ Will Get Insurance From Employers: ‘Do Employers Know?’

    GOP Senator Ridiculed for Insisting Americans ‘Transitioning From Medicaid’ Will Get Insurance From Employers: ‘Do Employers Know?’

    A Republican Senator is being ridiculed online for stating that the millions of people that will be removed from Medicaid if President Donald Trump’s “one big, beautiful bill” passes will then transition to employer-provided healthcare.

    Oklahoma Senator James Lankford appeared on CNBC’s ‘Squawk Box’ in conversation with host Rebecca Quick on Thursday, where he discussed the potential impacts of the Trump-back GOP spending bill.

    “People are screaming and saying, ‘It’s kicking people off Medicaid.’ It’s not kicking people off Medicaid. It’s transitioning from Medicaid to employer-provided healthcare. So yes, we’ve got 10 million people that are not gonna be on Medicaid, but they then are gonna be on employer-provided healthcare,” said Lankford.


    Social media users reacted incredulously, mocking Lankford for assuming that millions of people would immediately have access to employer provided healthcare options.

    “Do the employers who don’t provide health insurance know??” said one user.


    “Except when your minimum wage job has no healthcare,” said another.


    “So it’s kicking people off medicaid,” wrote a third.


    “That’s IF the employer provides healthcare that is affordable! These are working poor who live paycheck to paycheck and have little left to afford healthcare!” concurred a fourth.


    Lankford, who is a member of the Finance Committee, met with Trump to discuss the tax and spending bill on Wednesday. He continued to outline what exactly legislators discussed with Trump in the meeting.

    “About a two hour conversation about what’s happening on taxes, what are agreements going to be, what direction we’re going to try and take. It was broad in many areas. The House has already passed their piece, the Senate has got to pass our piece then that’s going to line up with the House and the President has got to sign. It’s very important that we align all three right now, so it was a coordination meeting yesterday quite frankly,” said Lankford.

    Originally published on Latin Times



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  • GOP Lawmaker Refuses to Read Their Own ‘Tanning Bed Tax Break’ Out Loud for Democrat in Congressional Hearing

    GOP Lawmaker Refuses to Read Their Own ‘Tanning Bed Tax Break’ Out Loud for Democrat in Congressional Hearing

    A Democratic lawmaker challenged Republicans on Capitol Hill over a provision in their sweeping budget bill that repeals the federal excise tax on indoor tanning services.

    When asked to read the line item during a public hearing Tuesday, Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) refused.


    “So that the American public knows what this bill does… Would you please read page 901, line 20?” New Mexico Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez asked Smith.

    “I think it’d be better if you read it,” Smith responded.

    “Oh, he doesn’t want to read it. This is in their bill. They don’t want to read a line from their own bill,” she said, as the back-and-forth continued. “This is amazing.”

    Rep. Gwen Moore (D-WI) eventually read the provision aloud: “Section 11106: Repeal of excise tax on indoor tanning services.”

    Leger Fernandez contrasted the provision incentivizing tanning bed-ownership with funding cuts to vital services in a critique of GOP priorities. “So if you have a tanning bed, you get a little bit of a tax break,” she said. “And if you need a hospital bed in rural America, I’m sorry, you’re out of luck.”

    In a more pointed jab, she alluded to President Donald Trump. “There are certain elected officials who appear to have a certain orange hue about them,” she quipped, “maybe they want to make sure tanning beds get a little bit of special credit.”

    “Really, we are prioritizing tanning beds over hospital beds in rural America,” Leger Fernandez emphasized.

    The tanning bed tax, originally enacted as part of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, was intended to both raise revenue and discourage use of ultraviolet tanning services due to health risks.

    The exchange underscored ongoing Democratic criticism that the Republican-led bill favors narrow interests and tax breaks for the wealthy over essential services like rural health care.

    Originally published on Latin Times



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  • GOP Lawmaker Insists People Can ‘Keep Their Medicaid’ If They ‘Just Get a Job’

    GOP Lawmaker Insists People Can ‘Keep Their Medicaid’ If They ‘Just Get a Job’

    As the GOP works to complete its “big, beautiful bill,” Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) defended proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients.


    House Republicans have been tasked with finding $880 billion in Medicaid savings over the next decade — a substantial hurdle for lawmakers beholden to voters, 76% of whom oppose cuts to Medicaid, according to a recent KFF poll. Rather than explicitly cutting services, the GOP is reportedly looking to save money with work requirements for “able-bodied adults” who receive Medicaid.

    “The person we’re taking it away from is the able-bodied adult with no children who refuses to work,” Crenshaw told FOX Business. “By the way, if they would just get a job, they could keep their Medicaid.”

    The proposal would require able-bodied adults to work or volunteer 20 hours each week to qualify for Medicaid coverage.

    Crenshaw’s comments echo GOP messaging on the issue.

    “For some people, the best way to get back on your feet is to get off your ass,” Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) said in February.

    House Speaker Mike Johnson described the work requirement as a way to, “Return the dignity of work to young men who need to be at work instead of playing video games all day.”

    Housing Secretary Scott Turner also framed the reform as the restoration of dignity. “We’ve created welfare as a lifestyle in our country,” Turner said. “Able-bodied, able-minded people that are receiving HUD funding should go to work and restore dignity.”

    While the GOP insists work requirements are not benefit cuts, research has suggested otherwise.

    In Arkansas, where Medicaid work requirements were implemented between June 2018 and March 2019 before a federal court deemed the program unlawful, more than 18,000 people lost coverage. Among those who lost coverage, researchers found many had met the work requirements or would qualify for an exemption, but failed to navigate and comply with reporting requirements. The state saw an increase in uninsured adults and no significant changes in employment.

    Most adults with Medicaid (64%) are already working. Of those who aren’t employed, most would qualify for exemption from work requirements due to an illness or disability, caregiving responsibilities, or school attendance.

    The legislation aims at “restoring dignity” for the remaining 8% of adults on Medicaid who are not working due to retirement, an inability to find work, or undisclosed reasons. However, critics warn the reporting requirements could impact millions of recipients beyond the targeted group, particularly vulnerable populations who lack internet access or computer literacy.

    The House Budget Committee voted to reject the bill on Friday. While the committee is set to reconvene next week, it’s unclear if they will meet Speaker Johnson’s Memorial Day deadline to pass the bill to the Senate.

    Originally published on Latin Times



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