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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
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GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.

GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Jun 26 at 1:00pmWeb
Show threadMaki3d ago
@ProPublica The cruelty is the point with these people.
Show threadTheFwGuy 🇪🇺🇮🇹🇺🇸🖖3d ago
@ProPublica Stupidity runs deep on who vote GQP
Show threadGhostOnTheHalfShell3d ago

@ProPublica

The GOP are expert at waste fraud and abuse.

Show threada fish named dog 🎗️✡️♾️3d ago
@ProPublica The point of a government is things like Medicaid. It is to redirect funds, to be an institutional Robin Hood, to do things that are unfeasible for individuals to do, like cracking down on monopolies. If a government refuses to do such a thing--if it refuses to serve its basic purposes, to make things better for individuals who, for whatever reason, cannot do "productive" work and ensure they can live, not only are they worse than Neanderthals, it has ceased having a reason to exist.
Show threadHam on Wry3d ago

@ProPublica

Does this include GOP lawmakers because they essentially don’t do their jobs.

Show threadMarcantonio Rendino1d ago
@ProPublica precisely - a Medicaid work requirement is much like “Trickle Down” (aka “Horse and Sparrow”, "Supply Side”, …) - these are not new ideas, they're simply _bad_ ideas — trotted out again, to do the combo of increasing wealth transfer to the wealthy, and causing pain to their “enemies”