Democrats keep screaming about the cuts to Medicaid in the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill," and the Pravda Media tends to present very little concrete information on exactly where the cuts are coming from. 

Sure, we hear that 7-8 million people will lose their Medicaid benefits, but aside from that sounding pretty bad, what exactly does that mean, and just who are these people to whom Trump and Republicans are being so cruel to?

The answer? The vast majority of the people who are being tossed off of Medicaid fall into two broad groups: illegal aliens and working-age men who refuse to get a job, get an education, or even volunteer at least 20 hours a week doing something useful. 

Senate Democrats are fighting hard to keep illegal aliens on Medicaid.

How about fighting for Americans?

— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 3, 2025

You know that useless video gamer living in his parents' basement? Yeah, that's who. 

Other services are being cut, like "gender affirming care," but the vast majority of cuts come from doing much the same thing as was done when welfare reform was passed in the 1990s. And, as with then, the left is going absolutely crazy with rage. 

That's why you rarely hear any of Trump's critics specify exactly how the Republicans are trimming expenses in Medicaid, leaving you to imagine pregnant widows and crying orphans being dumped out onto the streets in a tremendous act of cruelty. 

As a practical matter, you could criticize the cuts as counterproductive--expelling illegal aliens is a better solution than denying them medical care. After all, anybody who shows up in an Emergency Room will eventually get care when necessary, whether Medicaid is picking up the tab or not. Turning compensated care into uncompensated care doesn't reduce the actual expenditures; it just shifts the expenditures onto a different cell on the spreadsheet. 

🚨A new study shows common activities for Medicaid recipients who are NOT EMPLOYED are watching TV, playing video games, and sleeping.

Medicaid was intended to assist vulnerable populations like the disabled — not Americans who REFUSE to go to work.

REFORM Medicaid. pic.twitter.com/aQW9TtXQzZ

— Rep. Chip Roy Press Office (@RepChipRoy) June 3, 2025

But in principle, denying government benefits to illegal aliens and, let's be honest, deadbeats is hardly immoral. The United States should not become a magnet for medical tourism, just as we shouldn't be in the business of providing free room and board to every Jose, Mohammed, and Fatma who crosses our border. 

We have limited resources, and they are stretched beyond their limits. You can focus all you want on various sob stories, and that is great PR, but when you start looking at the balance sheet of the United States government, the numbers are clear: we are tapped out. 

It's easy enough for politicians and activists to spout pablum about everybody having the right to health care, but when push comes to shove, they never want to talk about what it costs, where to get the resources (other than from "the rich," who are an inexhaustible source of money apparently), and why it is fair to make everybody else pay for deadbeats to watch TV. 

No doubt I will get trashed in the comments by some lefty who will accuse me of wanting grannies to die in the gutter or poor children to die of measles or something, to which I say...pffft. Get serious. Show me the spreadsheet that proves the United States can pay for the world's healthcare. 

Let's start with confiscating the wealth of everybody who believes that. See how far that will take us.