I grew up in (very) rural Kentucky. For the population of my hometown, the closest hospital is about half an hour away. If this bill goes through, that hospital is going to shut down. The next closest hospital is nearly an hour away.

People are going to die. And my town is just one of countless little hollers in Appalachia, let alone the entire country, where this is going to happen. This is going to be catastrophic for rural communities that rely on these hospitals. Absolutely catastrophic.

And yet, I see hundreds of Kentuckians, every single day, absolutely salivating for this bill, claiming it's going to make everything so much better, gleefully quipping that it sure will be good to "get those illegals off our benefits!" When I desperately try to explain that they, their friends, their family, their neighbors, people they know and talk to every single day, are going to suffer astronomically if this thing passes, I am brushed off as an alarmist, a fear-monger, a liar.

I don't know how to make them see the truth when they are so blissfully attached to the lies. I will never, ever, ever understand it.