The Real Cost of "One Big Beautiful Bill"
The Financial Times published a piece this week titled "A full-blown crisis: Americans brace for a surge in healthcare costs,” and they zeroed in on West Virginia to show the damage.
This isn't just about market fluctuations; it’s about survival. The article breaks down the reality we are facing here: premiums skyrocketing while rural hospitals teeter on the edge of closure due to Medicaid cuts.
I spoke with the reporters to give them the view from Pineville, specifically, how the current system actually punishes working people. As I told them, my own insurance costs are set to rise next year even as my income drops. It’s a math problem that doesn't add up for thousands of families in this state.
The article notes that I’ve been writing songs about these specific policies, and they linked readers to the video for my song "One Big Beautiful Bill" on YouTube. I wrote that song as a warning about the legislation pushing these cuts. It’s good that a global financial paper is finally paying attention to the crisis, but the numbers they are reporting are the lives we are living every day.
We need to keep telling these stories until the policy changes.
Read the full article below, and then go listen to the track that warned this was coming.
Link to Financial Times Article: https://www.ft.com/content/beec76df-8e6d-4238-bae2-e51683b62aa4
Link to “One Big Beautiful Bill”: https://youtu.be/4izwKvRd1lY?si=Un_7dC-rdgNUOnJi
— Curtis Lovejoy