And I think the current admins are going to find...
The new work requirements are set to take effect in states by the end of 2026, but health care advocates argue that many recipients already have jobs or are unable to work.
Quite strategically, most of the changes currently underway won't take effect until after and to improve chances for Republicans at midterms.
So, yeah, most medicaid recipients are children, people who already have low-paying jobs without health benefits and disabled people. So I think our "comrades" are going to need lots and lots of automation plus a remedial math course.
@faery yes...the elderly have medicare, for now. Many elders have low ss income. Even with medicare, co pays and medications are unaffordable. Many have a medicaid plan to supplement medicare.
You know I never was on medicaid nor had any type of insurance until 2006. Only after I retired and after 65 was I automatically was forced on Medicare and they automatically deducted $160 from my social security.
Now I need that 160 a month. I'm way below the property line. This is not being addressed in any way.
@DeWayfarer he doesn't understand because he doesn't wish to. Being unable to communicate with the va is enough. I refuse to use the va. One bad experience was enough. But many are forced to. And medicaid is a lifeline for those poverty stricken seniors on minimum ss benefits. Copays for crucial medications alone can run into the many hundreds of dollars per month. That's alright with jack though. Grandmas eating catfood and heating with handwarmers is his vision of a perfect america. Especially if that grandma is a democrat.
First of all, that 34 million "able-bodied adults" on Medicaid number seems to have been pulled out of thin air. After that, it is clear by everything the Agriculture Secretary said that not much thought was put into this plan...scheme she mouthed.
Aside from being callous, it is decidedly flawed and unrealistic.
@ScreamingFox But isn't that really the point or am I missing it. We complain (well at least I do) about China and the Asian countries abusing its population/employees with minimal pay, horrendous hours and conditions and then they flood the American market with cheap goods that us Greedy Americans gobble up because you cant have enough 72" tv's and yet WE and right now it is the democrats supporting the idea that we should do the same, we will exploit the illegals so that our lawns get cut, groceries get picked to the shelf etc. It's stunning to me how Bernie could possible support this. I think let the chips fall where they may clean everything up and live and pay what the market demands, that is capitalism. If if we have a shortage of labor we can increase the immigration to meet it as it is supposed to work.
@Jenna76 Swap out Asian countries for western countries and you get the working conditions here during Industrial revolution. We did it before they did. We exploited workers, polluted environment, destroyed eco systems. I agree with what you’re saying though. But to me, it doesn’t have to be made here. It should be ethically made with fair wages. And it could still be cheap, just not as cheap Capitalism isn’t about making things locally. It’s about making things efficiently
Cool, because getting replaced by robots is why MAGA voted for him. But they will be American robots, or what we don't buy from, China, which dominates robot components.
@Carla I read the article, it says that the able bodied should be able to work. Difficult to argue with that, assuming able bodied is properly defined.
Yep no free passes comrade Carla. Waste, fraud, and abuse were just removed as a career path by the Trump administration. Prove that any of those people are not capable and physically able to work for a living.
@TexChik i bet my people have been on this land far longer than yours. I bet you didn't spend four years serving this country you say you love. I did. I DO call myself an american. I was not only born into it, i earned it. Have you?
@jackjjackson Oh she is right on point with the lib talking points. Suddenly she is concerned with people dying...yet said nothing while Americans froze to death in tents in North Carolina after Biden and the libs would only offer them $700 each while then forcing them to apply for it. They would not allow private aid into the region until it was clear they were not going to win the election. Trump sent in the corps of Engineers and gave a grand sum of 3.2 billion to rebuild the lives that were destroyed. But cleaning the deadwood and the illegal recipients out of the Medicaid rolls is a mortal sin? Since USAID has been defunded the libs gotta get their cash from other sources.
