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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To me, some version of a Medicaid work requirement seems like what you expect to get when Republicans are in office.

It’s not great, but it’s a minor nuisance compared with destroying NATO or possibly just canceling the general elections.

The problem is with how this might be administered.

If the administration were OK, there’s plenty of room here for officials to make allowances for people with intellectual disabilities or people with cancer.

And maybe you could argue that most people with intellectual disabilities want to be “engaged in the community.”  If this law forced communities to expand work and volunteer programs for people with intellectual disabilities, that would be good.

If the current rules are too hard on people with sometimes of health concerns, good regulators could fix those rules.

The problem is, obviously, the difficulty of believing that the Trump administration will administer a program in a good way. [/quote]

You talk a good game but who administers these volunteer programs?  The staff must be paid. If the “volunteers “ are terribly afflicted there must be a supervisor for every five “volunteers.”  The program must be insured against the “volunteers” becoming injured or causing damage or injury to others. They must be transported to work sites since they can’t drive and public transport sucks in the areas where people with an income of $900 per month (on average) can afford to live. You’ve just created a bigger bureaucracy. [/quote]

Follow the money.

Is healthcare really care or something we call care to make us feel better while not caring at all.[/quote]

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