Still doesn’t deal with the companies/corporations that do elaborate dances around regs to avoid hiring anyone disabled in the slightest. They start with job descriptions that require you to be able to lift 50lbs in jobs that employees never need to.
Work requirements and increasing recertification times are barriers to care. That paperwork is terrorizing. People with an assortment of illnesses/disabilities cannot keep up.
The "dole", a medieval English word, meaning the putting outside, of castles, manors, or rich homes, the food they did not eat. Leftovers for the poor. Nothing changes
The original sin of US health insurance was making it contingent on having a job (which goes back to WWII wage controls, resulting in employers offering insurance as a way to entice workers).
Now we think of it as a benefit, not a right. You want healthcare? Get a job!
"...as a way to entice workers." Because people could pay for most medical and dental costs out-of-pocket, but "hospitalization and major medical" insurance offered by employers provided protection from unusual expenses.
The real original sin of health insurance was making itself indispensable.
Tracks with the Christofascist Elect conception that God rewards the virtuous with health and wealth. So, if you aren’t healthy and wealthy, sucks to be you.
you should only have health care if you are willing to abase yourself for an employer, you should only have anything if you are willing to abase yourself for an employer, they are actually pretty consistent about this
The news media makes a mistake following what Trump is doing and questioning administration officials as if they'll provide reliable answers. Instead reporters should be asking tough questions of Republican voters and putting them in the headlines every day.
Isn't it true that 86% of 'welfare' recipients live in a household that includes at least one full-time worker? I feel like that's the answer to the question these assholes are desperate to ask...
Well, my argument is I'd rather have a job in my profession than use medicaid. But if I can't find one, I have no income. So how can I afford healthcare? Therefore I apply for Medicaid. And how do I work for Medicaid if I can't find a job in the first place?
Budgets are an expression of our priorities. They’re cutting -$625B from Medicaid, 2nd highest cut. What if those on Medicaid are out of work cuz of tariffs? Isn’t it in our general best interest to maintain a healthy population so rest of us don’t get sick? Germs are catchy, you know, right?💁🏻♀️
Doesn't have to be Medicare for All but if any Dem candidate can't find it in themselves to argue healthcare should not be tied to employment, I'm not interested in what they're selling.
An interesting Democratic Amendment would be to forbear the job requirement for everyone who applies for a “job” that does NOT offer health insurance on Day 1 at the same or lower rate than Obamacare.
Paywalled article.
But yes, that is the selling point for the RepubliCult: anyone gaining any service from our government is simply the lazy ppl gaming the system parasitically.
Note the difference in tune when disaster strikes, pandemics close businesses, kids are born, seniors need care...
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It's only "waste or abuse" when it's not MY needs being served by our tax dollars: when YOUR kids need school or YOU are having a baby or YOU are retiring or YOU lost your job, that's YOUR problem, not MY TAX DOLLARS' problem...but when I need FEMA or get injured and can't work, I PAID TAX, HELP ME!
THIS is not the American way; and while some say that pooling resources to help our distressed neighbor is "socialism," I will remind you of this:
"...we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."
This is not from a socialist manifesto: it's from our Declaration of Independence
They also conveniently forget the preamble to the Constitution: "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, **promote the general Welfare**" etc
Yes, but that is in the Constitution, and Republicans stopped honoring that document 1/7/21; so maybe they still honor the Declaration. If they don't START honoring our Constitution, however, they WILL BE FORCED to honor our Declaration, unfortunately. Kakistocracy/king not permitted here.
So even if you take the statistics in this article at face value, 44% of people on Medicaid that are working half time are still so poor that they qualify for Medicaid.
It is so dumb for medicaid because the people who are genuinely forced work are the least likely to actually need medical care so it doesn't actually save any money.
Had any of these rich, coddled, privileged asshats applied for public assistance, they would know about work requirements and the financial exam one must undergo to get the aid. The intrusive inspections of your home and the questions about your private life would never fly with these rich fucks.
Esp because patients don't see a DIME of Medicaid or Medicare money. It all goes to providers; many of which will close or cut back services if they aren't paid when uninsured people come into the Emergency Room. They won't be there to provide health care for anyone, including private pay patients.
Just nakedly cutting eligible folks off Health Insurance, because, apparently, some people should just die so that billionaires can pay even less in taxes.
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Perhaps this is My biggest shift over time
Now we think of it as a benefit, not a right. You want healthcare? Get a job!
The real original sin of health insurance was making itself indispensable.
So would not cutting crucial benefits that keep people healthy & employed
Like childcare subsidies, healthcare, & food stamps
Cuts in those areas end people's ability to keep jobs & advance in them
Raises often end the help before workers can stabilize
If You Want Welfare And Can Work, You Must Correctly Fill Out Eight Pages of Forms Specifically Designed To Trip You Up
But yes, that is the selling point for the RepubliCult: anyone gaining any service from our government is simply the lazy ppl gaming the system parasitically.
Note the difference in tune when disaster strikes, pandemics close businesses, kids are born, seniors need care...
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"...we mutually pledge our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour."
This is not from a socialist manifesto: it's from our Declaration of Independence