The Safety Net Is Eroding Faster Than I Expected—Here’s My Latest Update

Back in May, I wrote this blog post to share a white paper I had written on the quiet dismantling of America’s healthcare safety net—Medicare, Medicaid, and the VA.

At the time, I knew it was serious. I didn’t expect it to start moving this fast.

Since then, the “Big Beautiful Bill” passed, triggering new waves of cuts, privatization, and eligibility rollbacks—some hidden in plain sight, others buried in legislation that few people outside of Washington noticed. Even fringe healthcare proposals have started creeping into the mainstream.

So I’ve written a follow-up.

This new essay is far more than an update—it’s a deep dive into the accelerated erosion of Medicare, Medicaid, and VA healthcare, the growing risks for millions of Americans, and what we can still do to push back before it’s too late.

You can read it here on my Substack:
👉 Hollowed Out: How America’s Healthcare Safety Net Is Quietly Being Dismantled

I’m keeping this blog as a running record of these shifts—not because I think anyone’s sitting around reading my archives, but because these fights over healthcare are going to define the next few years in ways that many people won’t see coming.

If you’ve followed my writing before, you know this isn’t just a political exercise for me. This is personal. These policies affect veterans, working families, seniors, and anyone who depends on the healthcare safety net to survive.

I’ll keep tracking it.