Adults on Medicaid will be required to work 80 hours per month. The Trump administration says people who are sick will have to prove they are too sick to work to be exempt from the new work rules.
That’s the point.
Make no mistake about it - the goal here is not to get Medicaid recipients to work. The explicit goal is to provide an additional excuse for denying coverage.
Exactly this. In addition to flexing on the place and station of working class.
I was in the medical insurance industry for a number of years. Its such a cold calculation. glad I am out. Also glad im in an area where all this is covered if God forbid I get it.
If one finds themselves in that situation: you can get life insurance and cash out if you get Cancer. “accelerated death benefit”
Oh hey, they’re talking about me.
The meds are so insanely expensive that even working, the jobs I am qualified for do not provide good enough insurance to cover enough of them for me to not be going deeply into debt.
My treatment is going well, I’m about a year out from being considered safe to wean me off the meds, which will take another year.
So I need a year and a half after this kicks in to make it all the way through, financially.
This is a purposeful benefits cliff, and it already was a benefits cliff. It is literally financially unsound for me to work if I will die because I can’t afford the medications.
The goal is absolutely to kill people because these people truly believe in Darwinism even if they claim to be religious and reject it. They think only the strong survive and they’re just culling the weak who can’t hack it in society anyway. They think those people deserve death somehow, not that the system is broken and they simply cannot afford proper treatment.
I’m so sorry you’re facing this and I hope you’re able to get through all of this and back to health.
I think it’s less Darwinism and more Just World Fallacy. If you believe in a just world, then it means anyone who’s sick did something to deserve to be sick, so culling them is getting rid of bad people. And sadly, that fits perfectly within religious dogma because if you believe God is almighty and omnipotent, then it’s easy to believe that God would keep good people healthy and only let bad people get sick; or at least if good people are sick it’s “God’s plan.”
The reason naming it is worse than Darwinism because is because the Just World view is logically consistent with their world view, making it even harder to convince them of anything else.
I mean that’s fair to say about a lot of christians, but Trump literally learned from his father and family that sickness and frailness is weakness that should be exploited. He took all he learned and exploited his sick father before his death, just like he was taught to. Trump is not some christian, he does not believe in a just world, those who surround him ascribe to the same mafia politics, even if they hide it behind faux-christianity. The people actually running this government and making these decisions aren’t actually christians, they don’t believe in anything, they’re more like Ayn Rand than anyone.
Yeah, fair. Difference in politicians making the policy vs people supporting those politicians. I was thinking about the supporters, but your comment was more about the politicians.
For sure, my focus is on the the people actually crafting the policy. Sure the idiotic christian voters vote these people in, but those idiotic christian voters often actually support things like universal healthcare if you describe it without using the words “universal healthcare.” They vote the politicians in for entirely different reasons and then the politicians just do what they were gonna do anyway and screw everyone over while making themselves rich.
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“If you’re sitting at home, which is true for the millions of people who are able-bodied on Medicaid, on average, you’re spending 6.1 hours watching television, or just hanging around,” Oz said. “So, as a path to prosperity, Congress very wisely said, ‘Let’s get you back into the workforce.’”
Why? Why do they need to be in the workforce? I pay taxes so people like that stay out of the workforce!
If they’re on Medicaid there’s a reason for that. Why TF should we be making them work? Just “because”?
Not everyone is meant to work! Some people are born to be wards of the state. Pretending people like this don’t exist is insanity.
Other people get sick or have accidents that make them wards of the state. That’s what “the system” is for!
Also, let’s not pretend that this doesn’t cost much. The elderly, and people on permanent disability are the most expensive to care for. That’s why the Trump administration wants to kick them off… Because for each person that actually needs this vital government service that they kick off, they can save something like $100,000-130,000 (yes, that’s the real figure… It’s from Kaiser Family Foundation data).
This is why it wouldn’t really cost that much to move everyone off private health insurance and into a socialized program (e.g. Medicare for all or similar proposals). Because we’re already paying for the most expensive people/illnesses, tacking on the remaining healthy population would only add a marginal amount to the total cost and save taxpayers enormous amounts of money (compared to the amounts they’re currently paying for health insurance).
The Trump administration’s policies have one unifying theme (apart from corruption): fascist eugenics. They have (Nazi-like and stupid) views about which races are superior and which people are superior, and they are trying to kill off everyone else. Only in this light does any of it make sense.
Of course when they get cancer or HIV it’s different…
“If it were up to Stephen Miller, there’d only be 100 million people in this country, and they’d all look like Miller.”
- Donald Trump, talking about one of the most influential members of his cabinet
Bigot employer: -cuts hours below 80- “Welp, you have to die now. My sincerely held religious beliefs prevent me from giving you enough hours to live.”
This is the end goal.
Trump. Cruelty is the point.
Eventually, if you work 80 hours a week, you earn too much for Medicaid and if you can’t work 80 hours a week, you don’t qualify for Medicaid cause you’re lazy.
Then no one needs Medicaid so it can be removed.
Fuckers need to burn.
Yes, get your pain wracked, emaciated, highly drugged, cancer eaten body out of bed and get to work you lazy animal. Don’t you know your place as working class?
—MAGA
