Nonilex

#Trump’s New #Medicaid #WorkRequirements Are Here

It’s just cruelty.

On Friday, #Nebraska became the first state to enact Medicaid work requirements, mandatory for states with Medicaid expansion due to Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. Notably, the state did it 7 months before the deadline.

Now, ~70k adults below the age of 65 in Nebraska who have Medicaid through its expansion could risk having their #HealthInsurance ripped away from them.

#law #HealthInequity
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/05/trumps-new-medicaid-work-requirements-are-here/

Trump's new Medicaid work requirements are here

It's just cruelty.

Mother Jones
May 1 at 5:33pmWeb
Show threadNonilex4d ago

#Medicaid #WorkRequirements do not increase employment. Instead, the administrative burden of work requirements only serves to kick people off this governmental #HealthInsurance. Additionally, a majority of people on Medicaid, who are not on Supplemental Security Income, work full or part-time jobs. This underlines how rhetoric around work requirements is just false.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy

Show threadNonilex4d ago

The Center on Budget & Policy Priorities also highlighted that there is not enough time to implement what could be considered less cruel systems for #Medicaid #WorkRequirements. The center called for work requirements to be pulled, “but short of that, states need more time to ensure their policies, systems, & staffing plans are in place to minimize the number of eligible people whose #healthcare is taken away.”

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #Health

Show threadNonilex4d ago

This also highlights the cruelty of Nebraska’s implementation of work requirements before the Jan 1, 2027 deadline.

Especially because an interim rule from the #HHS Secretary #RFKJr is not even due until June 1.

#Trump #law #PublicHealth #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

Show threadNonilex4d ago

Concerns about what the interim rule from #RFKJr could look like:

A person with debilitating #ChronicPain, or a serious #AutoimmuneDisease, may appear “able-bodied” by the standards RFK Jr appears poised to implement—even as they face hurdles in qualifying for #SocialSecurity #disability due to not being considered #disabled “enough”.

#Trump #law #Medicaid #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

Show threadNonilex4d ago

#HHS declined to answer a series of questions for this article, instead offering a general statement that the agency “remains committed to protecting & strengthening #Medicaid for those who rely on it…while eliminating waste, fraud, & abuse.”

#Trump #law #HealthInsurance #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #HealthInequity #EconomicDiscrimination #PublicHealth #Health #HealthyIfYoureWealthy #plutocracy #USpol

Show threadNonilex4d ago

During the congressional debate over the #law last year, #Republicans pushed #WorkRequirements for #Medicaid as a way to get "able-bodied" adults benefiting from government assistance into the workforce. #House Speaker #MikeJohnson said it would help preserve Medicaid "for people who rightly deserve it," not young men "sitting on their couches playing video games." [that’s not who uses Medicaid, but Republicans new “Welfare Queen” lie.]

#Trump #HealthInsurance #health
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/01/nx-s1-5806260/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-nebraska-big-beautiful-bill-hr1-obbba

Show threadFinchHaven sfba4d ago

@Nonilex

"“remains committed to protecting & strengthening #Medicaid for those who rely on it…while eliminating waste, fraud, & abuse.”"

"eliminating waste, fraud, & abuse"

And we're back to the #Repubican #MoralPanic about Chicago's #CadillacWelfareQueens and too many undeserving people scamming free #ObamaPhones

It's always the 1980s in #MAGA land

Show threadPhil Wolff4d ago
@Nonilex What are the work requirements? Can you hire someone for an hour a week at minimum wage to meet them?
Show threadvictorvonvortex4d ago

@evanwolf @Nonilex

https://dhhs.ne.gov/Documents/Medicaid%20Work%20Requirements%20One-Pager.pdf

Show threadmichaelbrien4d ago
@Nonilex Unfortunately the asshats in control here love doing anything they think will make Trump happy.
Show thread(((JaneinNJ)))4d ago
@Nonilex Once again, the cruelty is the point.
Show threadOldFartPhil4d ago
@JaneinNJ @Nonilex It's eugenics writ large. If you are unable to shovel slop into the maw of capitalism, Republicans want you dead.
Show threadPG1958WILLNOTCOMPLY 🇺🇸🇷🇴🇺🇦🇵🇸4d ago
@Nonilex you are absolutely 💯 correct... it's just cruelty! Worse than that even since this is part of a calculated scheme where the regime is cutting benefits everywhere to free up more money for them to steal! America should be leading the way helping its citizens not robbing them of assistance. In Romania I had surgery, spent a week in hospital and a month of aftercare and the bill was ZERO. Diabetics receive insulin FREE! RO is a poor country but it values its people. America...not so much.