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If you’re a regular MAGA – i.e. not a multimillionaire professed MAGA fan of Donald Trump – you’re on your own for healthcare. But if you’re one of those millionaire MAGA fans of Trump, say, Scott Adams, the creator of the “Dilbert” comic strip, Trump will move heaven and goddamn earth for you. Adams posted to Twitter on Sunday that he was reaching out to Trump “to help save my life,” writing that Trump had “offered to help me if I need it. I need it.” Seems that Adams, a COVID and vaccine skeptic, has prostate cancer, and even with his wealth, he can’t seem to get the system to schedule him to receive a dose of the drug Pluvicto. “I am declining fast,” Adams wrote. “I will ask President Trump if he can get Kaiser of Northern California to respond and schedule it for Monday. That will give me a fighting chance to stick around on this planet a little bit longer.” Here’s how things work when you’re rich and in need of help: HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. responded. “Scott. How do I reach you? The President wants to help,” the fellow COVID and vaccine skeptic wrote back. How’s that for service? And then, not to be outdone, Trump posted to Truth Social, “On it!” If you’re rich and have puckered up, Trump, upon being told that you need help with something related to healthcare, man, he is “on it.” But if you’re a poor – and to these folks, if you’re outside the 1 percent, you’re a poor – your health insurance is going up $500 a month, whether you can afford it or not, and no amount of bleating online about your damn luck is going to get Trump or RFK Jr. to check in on you. Tell me again that you think these people are on your side.
