GOP lawmaker caught dumping Medicaid provider stock before megabill vote

We all knew this was going to pass.

If you thought otherwise I've got a bag for you to hold.

I’ve got a bridge to sell, when you’re done with them.
- Florida real estate magnate here, a highly sought, beautiful lot that combines refreshing moisture and a healthy wildlife population has just come up
That doesn't make this acceptable.

So people are just going to die right?

We’re going to have old people cut off from their health care, rural areas will have their hospitals closed, and people are going to die.

Why is the world such a sick place?

The world? No, it's the US.
- Unfortunately, the gutting of USAID and foreign aid programs is projected to kill millions in the developing world.
- Well, no. It's the world, but especially the US.
- It'll absolutely influence the rest of the world though :(
- These are Americans, they don't understand the difference.
Listen to that one rep who said we're all gonna die!
We just need to accept the lord jesus into our hearts so that the hereafter will be assured! Fuck the present earth, it should go through trials like extreme weather, rampant sickness, wars etc - that's just a sign that the second coming is near!
/s
- A significant number of people running the country right now truly believe this, and are willing to kill for it.
Because they can't get off unless people are suffering. And the current suffering is getting boring, so they have to raise the stakes.
- Nah, it's dumber than that. They don't want suffering to lose money, they want all the suffering and misery in the world to be incredibly profitable.
Conservatives and religion. There's also a strong overlap between the two.
- Yeah they both suck
Reports states 25,000 people in US who uses Medicaid will die every year.
- aren't they also going to let ACA subsidies lapse, too? So, the total unnecessary deaths will certainly be higher...

Are you telling me that the US gov. is corrupt? I don't believe it!

I don't know if this one is considered insider trading. The bill was public record and we all knew how he was going to vote. I guess he could have known the result before the official vote, But at the same time anyone can look up party affiliations and vote history.
Nah, just curious coincides. You have seen nothing, citizen. That's an order.

But he has an R next to his name. I thought the Rs were above the law. They can't do "crimes". Crimes are for poors.

No no. Crime is if you vote blue. If you vote Red, and kill a cop or rape a kid.. you get a pardon
You misunderstood... By "caught" they just mean that we know he did it. Nothing at all will ever come of this.

Yeah, but it’s not insider trading. Everyone knows they fucked Medicare up.

Doesn't even matter anyways. It's legal for them to insider trade. Stories like this are nothing.
Medicaid*
(this time)
- Medicare too.

Guys chill, he's not a Democrat so this is legal and no need to assassinate him.

The whole system is broken. I wish I didn’t have to wake up everyday in it.

Wish I would have thought of having enough money to invest in stuff.

Bad title. "Caught" implies that someone will be holding him accountable.

Can't wait to hear all about how democrats are bad because of this.

remember when the democrats did this first, and the republicans called them shitty and called for their heads? oh wait....

Why is healthcare a stock!?

Everything is financialised in the US
it is more delicious to gamble on people's livelihoods and lick their tears
Healthcare isn't a stock. Healthcare is a large industry, comprised of many companies, and government entities. Individual companies in the healthcare industry may have publicly traded stock. Hope that helps.

Fuck this dude and his vote and all, but I didn’t need to be in congress to know that’s the GOP had the votes and motivation to fuck over Medicaid.

Why didn't Chuck Schumer do more to stop this?

He got many non-budgetary provisions out from the Byrd rule, which is essentially enforcing the rules that allow the thin Republican majority to pass a budget.
But the Republican Senate also made up an accounting magic trick to pretend that a several trillion dollar budget line item has no effect on the deficit. And pretended that this is now a rule because 51 senators think this is a good idea.
Senate Democrats did virtually everything within the legislative process that they could on their own.
House Leader Jeffries did at least delay the vote for 8 hours, 44 minutes to talk about the bill, and bring it to the afternoon news cycle instead of at 4am.
Every democrat and one republican voted agianst this bill.
What else do you think they can do?
- Remove some Republicans from office via the 14th amendment.
  Lead protests. Not just parades but actual disruptive protests
  Back left wing candidates
  Use any and all procedural tricks to delay things.
  other stuff that moderators don't like
- Sharpen the guillotine
He forced them to change the name so take that 😏
Maybe next time and everytime go out and vote blue so they have even a chance of doing something to stop it.
Elections have consequences.
- According to Pew, Trump would have won even if everyone had turned out to vote.
  Source: https://www.npr.org/2025/06/26/nx-s1-5447450/trump-2024-election-non-voters-coalition
His printer must have run out of the "Strongly Worded Letter" paper.

Insider trading much.

It's time to come up with something better than the stock market, especially when morality and shame have left the building and have been replaced by greed and "lookin' out for number one".

The corruption is endemic, unsustainable, and will lead to collapse.

Well he was late to the party.

Everyone else would have dumped it back in November.

Where is the SEC? Defunded. F'n Government of Putin.

What about nancy pelosi though?!? Her and her husband traded google stock! No one trades google, its such an obscure stock where almost no major news happens. Clearly both parties are the same.

So she is just like them.
- No, not at all actually. I was joking.

What the fuck is this shit? Is this a bot?
What the fuck is this

What, me worry?