Last summer I read this book called "Health Communism." I pulled it off my shelf again this afternoon to look at all the pages I highlighted.
The authors argue that healthcare cuts are designed to kill off the poor, the disabled, the sick, and the marginalized. And to do it quietly enough so that it looks like budget policy instead of violence. Capitalist health policy isn’t about keeping everyone well. It’s about deciding who deserves to live.
It’s about dividing people into the productive and the unproductive, the deserving and the undeserving. If you can’t work, if you’re poor, if you’re sick, if you’re undocumented, too bad. You don’t count. Die.
This is a system designed to kill off the people it considers what the authors call "surplus." And we know who the surplus populations are.
17 million people are set to lose their healthcare. These cuts will disproportionately impact Black, Latino, Indigenous, and immigrant families who already face barriers to care.
These are the same communities already targeted by environmental racism, police violence, wage theft, voter suppression, and mass incarceration.
This government is deliberately engineering policies that will shorten the lives of millions of its most vulnerable citizens, including children and especially children of color because they will be America's future demographic majority.
Be clear, this is strategic murder. These monsters made a CHOICE to kill people slowly, quietly, bureaucratically, while gaslighting us to make us think this is about fiscal responsibility.
I hate sharing the earth with these evil degenerates.