mmalcJun 6
Broadwaybabyto

This is why we should never debate the worth of another person

We all have value just for being ourselves

It’s not tied to our job, or health status or our economic contribution

Saying that someone must prove they “matter” to get Medicaid is blatant eugenics

Disabled people aren’t expendable!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-oz-says-people-will-receive-medicaid-if-they-can-prove-that-they-matter/

#uspol #hhs #medicaid #disability #ableism #eugenics #DrOz

Dr. Oz Says People Will Receive Medicaid If They Can ‘Prove That They Matter’

He continues to defend Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” by claiming that there will be no Medicaid cuts.

The Daily Beast
Jun 6 at 3:38amWeb
Show threadThee Mighty PeculiaJun 6
@broadwaybabyto Imagine being ghoulish enough to even think a thing like this about other humans.
Show threadPeter LichotaJun 6
@broadwaybabyto
Exactly! When I read this I immediately thought of “What does a disabled person cost the state?” loosely reworded from 1930s German Eugenics Philosophy… Evil and insane!
Show threadT Jones NoKings FilmICEJun 6

@DrSprockets @broadwaybabyto

Netflix has a 20 minute movie, Forgive Us Our Trespasses. In Nazi Germany, a boy with a limb difference (lost arm) sits in class while his teacher-mother has to give a lesson on the expense of the disabled. Later he is hunted down.

Show threadGray Rockin' EvelynJun 6

@broadwaybabyto How does a person prove that they matter? Do they need to provide testimonies from their loved ones? Samples of their creative work? Results from a panel of judges scoring the quality of their hugs or the brightness of their smiles?

…Oh, I get it, Mr Oz. You just meant the monetizable value of goods and services they provide to others. If only I could monetize the full extent of the Gross National Pity that I feel for you right now.

Show threadJonathan EmmesediJun 6
@broadwaybabyto 🤮
Show threadJanisJun 6

@broadwaybabyto "...audiences"?

Iif people on Medicaid could work, they would. It's not like the benefits actually pay the rent. What this is, effectively, is keeping single moms (and about 5% dads) in the what is the modern slave class.

Mother's Day is effectively wasted every year when these guys continue to have zero clue what it took to raise them (a shit job, tho.)

Additionally, it's quite literally industry's role to drive up GDP, not non-living-waged workers... or disabled people.

Show threadFat_FarangJun 6
@broadwaybabyto So, Dr. Oz won't be getting Medicaid then.
Show threadMetalpoet Jun 6
@broadwaybabyto the idea of a very rich man deciding if other people "matter" is the kind of evil that Dickenson lived through and wrote about, and the idea of going back to that is fucking intolerable.
Show threadToni AittoniemiJun 6

@broadwaybabyto Starting to measure people’s worth is the royal road to fascism.

And this includes utilitarians, effective altruists, posthumanists. All the fucking lot if them. Half of Silicon Valley nowadays.

Show threadMcWabbit 🍋🌻🍉Jun 6
@broadwaybabyto Elect scumbags, expect this eugenics shit. 😩
Show threadTor Iver WilhelmsenJun 6
@McWabbit @broadwaybabyto Not that Oz as such is elected; he’s just another of the TV personalities Trump appointed since the uneducated fool just golfs and watches television..
Show threadEstarriol, lucozade dragonJun 6
@broadwaybabyto so he doesn't qualify then.
Show threadGentleman TechnologistJun 6

@broadwaybabyto this attitude always bugs me.

The point of the government is to serve the people. That’s what it is *for*

The point of people is not to be economically profitable. That’s not what people are for

Show threadEnara ❔Jun 6
@broadwaybabyto Jesús Christ! These people masked off so hard they peeled off their face and ended up showing their skull.
Show threadKonosocioJun 6
@broadwaybabyto does Dr Oz matter is my question.
Show threadHyperSoop ‮Jun 6
@broadwaybabyto the idea that one should have to "earn" a living is utter fascist brainrot
Show threadsamiamsamJun 6

@broadwaybabyto

a large percentage of republicans are psychopaths

Show threadMooMoo the CatJun 6
@broadwaybabyto I know these are 2 different people, but I'm getting strong Geert Wilders vibes from that photo of Dr. Oz in that article.
(Image of Geert is taken from the Wikipedia page about him, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geert_Wilders )
Show threadT Jones NoKings FilmICEJun 6

@broadwaybabyto

#ThanksOprah

Show threadsandywb14Jun 6
@broadwaybabyto seems this attitude violates the oath he took as a dr.
Show threadJocelynephiliac Jun 6
@broadwaybabyto @david I think doc oz needs to prove that he matters, first
Show threadJhooperJun 6
@broadwaybabyto Oz demonstrably has negative value, as he's been using his medical degree to peddle snake oil bullshit and has hurt people.
Show threadEdelruth In The Wrong TimelineJun 6

@broadwaybabyto

So Dr. Oz himself will not qualify then.

Show threadHugs4friends ♾🇺🇦 🇵🇸😷Jun 7
@broadwaybabyto He's such a dirtbag...which is why RFKJr wanted him. Just one member of the #Dirtbags_R_Us hires of 47's Basket of Execrables Cabinet. #MakeAmericaSickAgain #SurvivalOfTheRichest
#8647now
Show threadMiakodaJun 7
@broadwaybabyto I worked till I couldn't anymore. So much so, that gap between applying for disability and getting it was dangerous to myself and those around me. I should not have been in control of a 3,000 lb machine, capable of killing, while experiencing meltdown and extreme fatagiue. I had no real choice. I worked beyond my limit.
Show threadGreg BurnsJun 7
@broadwaybabyto Dr Oz doesn't matter to me but I'm not judging.