If the Tories really cared about mental health, they’d stop trying to score cheap points | Micha Frazer-Carroll | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/22/tories-cared-mental-health-mel-stride
#Tories
#MentalHealth
#Stride
#Benefits
#WarOnDisabled
#WarOnTheIll
#WarOnThePoor
#WarOnTheMentallyIll
#WarOnTheChronicallyIll
#WorkRelatedStress
#BadJobs
#BackToWork
#Jobcentres
#TherapistsAtJobcentres
#Workfare
#Workhouses
#CBT
#Medicines
#RecoveryInTheBin
#Poverty
#Homelesness
#Austerity
Workfare o work for welfare significa letteralmente lavorare per ottenere un beneficio: la concessione di forme di integrazione al reddito sono vincolate a prestazioni lavorative. – Nell’ Italia neoliberista, nazionalista, fascista e sessista, il “povero”, sinonimo di proletario, è il lavoratore che dal 2005 al 2021 ha perso sino al 48% del reddito: per lo più i giovani entro i 35 anni del Centro-Sud, le donne e gli “stranieri”, i mai occupati, disoccupati, i working poor della logistica e dei servizi, i precari; essi sono l’esercito industriale di riserva della “Nuova Società del Workfare” necessario alla Sviluppo, per lo più...
Ehrlich gesagt braucht man keine #Nazis dafür, #Kriegsflüchtlinge zu illegalen Menschen zu erklären die dann in der Landwirtschaft oder auf Baustellen als de facto #Sklaven ohne jegliche Rechte arbeiten.
Oder dafür Menschen in #Zwangsarbeit zu schicken. ( #Workfare )
Und vom faschistischen #Lagersystem in den #USA zur Unterdrückung der eigenen Bevölkerung mal ganz zu schweigen.
Das wurde ALLES von Demokraten & Demokratinnen ersonnen + umgesetzt.
Permalinks: US poverty and class warfare
#Medicaid and #Workfare
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/an-overview-of-medicaid-work-requirements-what-happened-under-the-trump-and-biden-administrations/
Workfare in New York
https://web.archive.org/web/20230208181401/http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/workfare.html
The Suburban Century Begins (July 1992)
https://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/politics/ecbig/schnsub.htm How neoliberalism pits the working poor against the welfare poor. Three decades later and nothing has changed.
The Trump Administration aimed to reshape the Medicaid program by newly approving Section 1115 demonstration waivers that imposed work and reporting requirements as a condition of Medicaid eligibil…
Without a doubt, adding work-reporting requirements to Medicaid would cause many low-income adults to lose coverage due to bureaucratic hurdles and would leave people without the health care they need, including life-saving medications, treatment to manage chronic conditions, and care for acute illnesses.