What a bunch of callous, cruel, sleazy, no-account, classless low-lifes these people are.
Because the way to get an addict back to work is to strip away their rehab coverage.
I know some people who are going to be very unhappy about this.
One of them is a nephew, big hulking guy, early 30s, with PTSD. Hasn’t been able to get/keep a job because of the PTSD. Trump supporter in MI, so GOP governor. Interested in his reaction to this news.
So grandma in a nursing home may have to push a broom to earn her keep?
There’s little in R plans that is crueler than this.
Cutting off federal funding for Planned Parenthood — a longstanding conservative goal that is included in the Republican bill to replace the Affordable Care Act — would reduce access to birth control for many women and result in thousands of additional Medicaid births, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Because nearly half of all births nationwide are to Medicaid patients, and many of those babies are Medicaid patients themselves, the budget office estimated that defunding Planned Parenthood even for a year would increase Medicaid spending by $21 million in the first year, and $77 million by 2026.
@katscherger Grandma and her daughter and her newborn grandchild all with different size brooms.
Get those freeloading layabouts out of their beds and cleaning bed pans. What? You think we’ve got bucket loads of Christian charity just sitting around unused?
As if Medicaid recipients aren’t nickel and dimed to death already. Anything over the counter comes out of pocket. Back brace or food?
Perhaps we should just impose work requirements on Congress. Time clocks in every office, and you have to punch in yourself, 8 hours a day, no overtime.
I have a hard time working up sympathy for sickly hillbillies forced to work for their meager health care. However, I want you to remember this moment when and if we ever see another Democratic President, and some weak, slap fighting Dem comes in here and tries to maintain a centrist DNC line. We are at war. There is no Kumbaya moments to be had. Win. Crush your enemies. Ram thru effective legislation, and if at all possible, always tweak your enemy.
These people are literally evil.
And why aren’t Democrats talking about ending tax exemption for churches? They’re building empires on the backs of the taxpayers and using that money to fight us.
States could also require Medicaid recipients to pay premiums or co-pays for emergency room visits.
So Trump DID listen the Ohio’s Gov Kasich. Kasich wants to be able to do that.
Work requirements aren’t “flexibility” – they’re a way to push people out of the medicaid program. And, for some reason we don’t fully understand, infectious diseases are precisely as infectious when they are carried by someone who doesn’t work was when they are carried by someone who doesn’t.
First lets see who qualifies for Medicaid in the first place:
"In order to participate in Medicaid, federal law requires states to cover certain groups of individuals. Low income families, qualified pregnant women and children, and individuals receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) are examples of mandatory eligibility groups. States have additional options for coverage and may choose to cover other groups, such as individuals receiving home and community based services and children in foster care who are not otherwise eligible. "
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/eligibility/
Pregnant women,children,the elderley,people with disabilities to name a few.How much of a work pool you have left is questionable and ridiculous on its face.
No - just bedpan duty. And feeding bedridden patients.
When I first came to this country and saw how black people were treated (Georgia, 1969) I thought there would come a revolution, surely all of Columbus would soon be burning. Nothing happened.
Lately I have been waiting for someone to say to Trump and his ilk “This far and no further” while he is dismantling everything we have created and bragging about it - but nothing happens.
I guess what bothers me most is the “In your face vulgarity” with which he is proceeding and, of course the fact that I am too old to climb on barricades or be a fire bomber.
“No more free lunch grandma. Get up out of that hospital bed and get to work!”
Yes, let’s turn Medicaid over to the states, because 50 bureaucracies will be so much more efficient than just one. Logic is apparently not a Republican strength. Ignorance, on the other hand…
Voters in these states think they need to get the federal government out of their health care.
Maybe this will change a few minds.
Also, no fundraising on taxpayer’s dime. Do that on your own time, the same way those of us looking for jobs has to
We had a president who is either loved or hated depending your political leanings, who talked about a city on a shining hill, and the ideals that would flow into the country because of the shininess. It was reagan. It didn’t happen, never will, but it was a mighty fine speech.
But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here.
How very Republican of you.
More than half of Medicaid spending is for prenatal care and childbirth costs, disabled people, and seniors in long-term care facilities.