From @damaan4u33 on Dead
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Trump's Ag Secretary Suggests Replacing Migrant Farm Workers with Medicaid Recipients, "We Should Be Able To Do That Fairly Quickly"!
What are your thoughts? Do you agree? Yes or No?
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I believe they call that indentured servitude, prohibited by the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution.
Illegal AF.
So, no.
Using #Medicaid #WorkRequirements to substitute for #Deported #FieldHands is one fuckin #Unhinged and #Unbaked and #HalfAssed #Trump #GOP idea by #BrookeRollins https://newrepublic.com/post/197702/trump-agriculture-secretary-rollins-farms-medicaid-recipients
State experiments with #WorkRequirements have been plagued with administrative issues, such as eligible enrollees' losing #coverage over paperwork problems, & budget overruns. Georgia's work requirement, which officially launched in July 2023, has cost >$90 million, with only $26 million of that spent on #health benefits, according to the Georgia Budget & Policy Institute, a nonpartisan research organization.
As voluminous research literature shows, #WorkRequirements achieve savings by implementing burdensome paperwork obligations that mostly take #Medicaid from eligible beneficiaries, not 25-yr-old guys who prefer playing video games to getting a job.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that, by imposing #Medicaid #WorkRequirements, the bill would eventually increase the #uninsured population by at least 8.6M. At first, #Republicans tried to defend this outcome on the grounds that it would affect only lazy people who refuse to work. This is clearly untrue, however.
#Republicans on the party's right flank had pushed for deeper #spending #cuts to lessen the #budget impact, but met resistance from centrists who worried that would fall too heavily on the 71 million #LowIncome Americans enrolled in #Medicaid.
#MikeJohnson made changes to address conservatives' concerns, pulling forward new #WorkRequirements for Medicaid recipients to take effect at the end of 2026, 2yrs earlier than before. That would kick SEVERAL MILLION people off the program.
«The #HouseBudgetCommittee voted against advancing #GOP’s party-line #tax & spending package Fri amid ongoing opposition frm hard-line #conservatives
To placate hard-right members on the panel, GOP leadrs r entertaining substantial changes 2 the bill b4 lawmakrs r expected 2 vote on passage next week, including enforcing #WorkRequirements on #Medicaid recipients earlier than 2029 deadline in the bill & immediately revoking Medicaid benefits from #UndocumentedImmigrants»
This is going to be rough. NH fought medicaid expansion for so long they were stingy with it until 2014. They won’t have $ to throw in place of federal funding.
They’ll probably cut off homeless people who are able-bodied, whereas now they are exempt from work requirements they will probably get them. Crazy because walmart isn’t hiring someone who can’t take a shower. And historically Walmart would keep their employees hours low enough they would still qualify for food stamps anyway, so ???
They’ll probably cut off people like me who are disabled but who get SSDI, my poverty level disability income is so high that if I couldn’t deduct medical expenses I would probably get like $20 in food stamps a month.
This last year they tried to tell me that co-pays to mental health aren’t deductible but co-pays for mental health medication is. They were lying, I got a hold of the food stamp manual pages that said that, but I got tired of fighting with them over the difference so I let it go. I was planning to be more prepared this year but it’s looking like it won’t matter. We’ll see.
But I suspect this will hurt the homeless people, and the elderly and disabled people who get enough Social Security to say they aren’t poor enough for food stamps.
Kim Reynolds, Iowa GOP and every single asshole that voted Republican can fuck all the way off.
#disabled #WorkRequirements
#CrueltyIsThePoint
Kevin McCarthy Brags About Making Struggling Americans Work for Food
I didn't come up with it, but the idea of #WorkRequirements for #Oregon #legislators definitely seems to have hit a nerve at r/Eugene! https://www.reddit.com/r/Eugene/comments/13r28ea/who_else_here_believes_that_people_struggling_to/ #legislature #representatives #accountability
(There's a #comic making this point going around as well, if anyone has seen it please reply with it, or a link to it!)
@Googlybear I stole this to repurpose about #Oregon state legislators.
Thank you. #WorkRequirements
It sounds like a reasonable idea: the GOP wants to require people age 50-55 without kids to work if they want to get food stamps.
But there are a few problems with painting that group as slackers: most of those people already work, and most of those who don't work aren't working because they are caring for kids or elders or dealing with significant health issues.
More on the numbers: https://theconversation.com/gops-proposed-expansion-of-snap-work-requirements-targets-many-low-income-people-in-their-early-50s-but-many-of-them-already-work-205960
#News #DebtCeiling #SNAP #WorkRequirements
Fetterman floats work requirements for bailed-out bank executives
Instead of #KevinMcCarthy and his band of #BananaRepublicans holding the country hostage over #WorkRequirements for #Healthcare , let's save money by asking Trump-appointed clowns 
posing as federal judges whether their cult beliefs will allow them to approve of any drug BEFORE the #FDA conducts expensive trials! 
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/18/health/rsv-vaccine-newborns-fda/index.html
Don Moynihan is the person to read about why work requirements for #Medicaid make zero sense. Many people would lose access to healthcare due to the difficulty of meeting the reporting requirements, and with absolutely no upside for labor force participation. It's a policy position that is as illogical as it is inhumane.
Why is the financial well-being of the entire country dependent on cruel nonsense like this?
John Fetterman Asks Bank Execs If CEOs Who Crash Banks Should Get Work Requirements: The Pennsylvania senator challenged former executives from Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank about the bank collapses.
@isotope239 @TonyStark Maybe there should be #WorkRequirements for people who inherit vast generational wealth? Oh and they should pay taxes, too
Once again the #DoNothing #BananaRepublicans in Congress are demonstrating an hilarious lack of self-awareness by requiring *additional #WorkRequirements * for participation in federal assistance programs! 
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/food-stamps-work-requirements-republican-lawmakers-america-works-act/
So when are THEY going to start WORKING at the job their constituents elected them to DO?!
#SaveAmerica from the #MAGA cult of consistent LOSERS!
I’ve often complained that when the US “ended welfare as we know it” (in 1996) no one kept track of what happened to the people who were on welfare. How many lost their apartments? Became drug addicts? Went to jail? Died?
There’s no doubt in my mind all of these things happened as a consequence. But we’ll never know the numbers. People with money and power didn’t want to talk about it. They didn’t want to know.
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#poverty #inequality #WorkRequirements #FoodStamps #TANF #uspolitics #usa
