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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Consider that the cuts to Medicaid will lead to increased healthcare costs and/or lack of healthcare facilities for everyone. Do you want to live in a country with a class of people who don’t get healthcare? It’s disgusting.[/quote]

Reverting to a work requirement of 20 hours per week for healthy non pregnamt adults is not an unreasonable burden.[/quote]

Except the vast majority on Medicaid programs are kids, elderly and disabled---people who cannot work.  [/quote]

Also, where are these 20 hour a week jobs? They aren't in every state. I know people who have been looking for months and not found something.

Also the requirement to constantly reapply will bog everything down is massive papework.

It will be a crapshow of amazing proportions.

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I really don’t see how you can criticize a work requirement for able bodied Americans to receive Medicaid. This doesn’t sound unreasonable and even in model liberal societies it’s a requirement to work.

The noise and hysteria over this is a problem because it causes confusion and then the legit issues and grievances by this admin are overshadowed.

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The bill cuts $1trillion from Medicaid. The cuts go far, far beyond work requirements— those account for about $300 billion of the $1 trillion. Those cuts will harm not just poor people, but deeply affect doctors, hospitals, nursing homes, and every other provider who is actually taking care of patients every day. 
As to work requirements, of course they seem like a good idea. In reality, most people on Medicaid already work. So why the concern, and why the projection that the law will cut $320 billion as a result of the work requirements? Because the administration of those requirements means many people who should qualify don’t. The system goes down during the one day you actually have off to put in your hours. The library is closed the day you have off, and since you are poor, you don’t have a computer, so need to use the library to do it. Your manager decides business is slow, and cuts your hours unexpectedly, and you can’t scramble fast enough to get enough hours to stay qualified that month. You get the flu and stay home from work to avoid infecting colleagues and the public, so your boss fires you, so you lose coverage. You live in a state that decides it wants to make it as hard as possible for you to meet those requirements so sets up new requirements, new forms, new websites, every few months so that you spend more time trying to keep up with the reporting requirements than you spent actually working. There are SO many ways a person working her a$d off, trying very hard to comply, will find herself without coverage. And get sick, so she can’t really work, which makes the problem worse. It’s like an actual death spiral brought about by your seemingly innocuous appeal to “reasonable”. [/quote]

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