Some mentally ill adults are about to be screwed because they appear to be “able-bodied.”People will either be forced into environments they aren’t able to handle or lose coverage/meds/therapy as a result. The outcome will be bad for all of us. I have this situation in my family and am worried sick.
Exactly. We had to use it last year due to a family member’s SMI which qualified them. The paperwork is a nightmare; very few who don’t need it would go through all the hoops to get it started. The MAGA MoCs should have to go through the application process to see how hard it is. So disingenuous.
To get on these programs you have to have proof of disability. Everything is investigated and may take years to get it. So who is he talking about? He is full of 💩 and has no idea what he is talking about.
Most politicians' work extends beyond the time they are actually in the legislature. Out meeting constituents, providing services, holding town halls (except the GOP lately) is all work.
Medicare which retirees pay for out of their Ss checks require a supplemental ins. So, $200. A month out of $1300. Plus pay for more? Where do you live, in your car?
Those ultimately cut off will need and get some form of care. They will incur expense regardless of what idiotic plan our free loading elected representatives conjure. Healthcare providers will not get paid, AGAIN. Quality of care will diminish for all. State taxes will increase. Been there! 🤪
The wild part is that the Republicans hamstringing the bill are doing so because it isn’t draconian enough. They think it should be way harsher.
Wild times indeed.
It's kind of weird depending on the Republican Party having a sizable chunk of their representatives who want millions of dead Americans and millions of undernourished kids, so that Republican moderates can't achieve *not quite as many* dead Americans and malnourished kids.
50% or more of nursing home residents are Medicaid. This includes long term, short term, and Assisted Living in some instances. They actually can’t work and need nursing care, activities of daily living and/or some type of daily supervision but do not have the resources for private pay.
Work what jobs? They count unemployment, but what about those not in the workforce? I have students who put in applications for years and never get jobs.
Same strategy they use for voting. If you put enough speed bumps and road blocks in the way some people will not be able to negotiate them that would otherwise be eligible. They will simply do without, end up in an ER too far gone when earlier intervention could have saved them. And it costs us all.
In my 30+ year career of working with seriously mentally ill/disabled clients, I never came across an able bodied adult with no children who refused to work & was receiving Medicaid. They were mainly income folks who were genuinely unable to work, although many of them would have preferred to do so.
They seem to like accusing people with no evidence of guilt, and innocent people who are affected are inconsequential collateral damage...
Like 13 million children and disabled Americans...
It’s good that Crenshaw and the rest of the GOP members of Congress don’t receive full healthcare coverage, on the taxpayer’s dime, because he’d obviously be morally and personally opposed to it
What an absolute POS and JackHole! I’d like for him to work one day at a Medicaid office. A full eight hours. All of them. They need to all receive invitations.
This isn’t welfare, dumbass. People on Medicaid work. They’re just not making enough money to afford healthcare. It goes to poorer folks, whether they’re single or family men. I swear, what’s being revealed daily is how ignorant a lot of reps are about how ANYTHING really works.
and that’s $800 billion? And still they want a $5 trillion raise on the debt ceiling. The able brained need to see that this is a huge scam to pay billionaires.
No. The extra filings, deadlines, hoops, rejections and requests for additional information are designed to frustrate those that ARE eligible into giving up or making a mistake on the extremely burdensome paperwork.
Republican politicians know very well how these programs work. They are just banking on their voters buying their "it's rife with fraud" BS as an excuse to cut them.
No. You are taking Medicaid away from children, the severely disabled, and the elderly in nursing homes. All so that you can make billionaires into trillionaires.
Would love them to provide verifiable data about how much these supposed “able-bodied, single, childless” people who refuse to work actually cost Medicaid. I suspect they are medicaid unicorns.
There is probably 10 in all the country.
The others dont refuse to work, they can't get a job. I imagine many are homeless and no one gives someone a job when they dont have an address, phone, or shower.
No need for apologies
I go from dumbfounded to murderous rage, so I have to ration my exposure to it all or I'll be apoplectic & die of an exploded heart
Of course it did and does. Like our NHS. Saves millions of lives, makes millions of lives better, is the basic right thing to do AND makes the people, sorry *workers*, more productive for people who think that’s the only fing thing that matters anymore.
Yes. I would pay 90% in taxes just to not have to talk about this anymore.
Just take my money so I never have to call insurance again or walk past another person made homeless by medical debt or hear a friend is skipping preventative medical care bc they can't afford it.
We really need Medicaid recipients (many of whom are military families and old people) to show up at Crenshaw offices. They need signs that say, “you took my Medicaid”
A real journalist would turn around and ask Rep Crenshaw to define “able bodied”
That would be just question number 1 of many, from just that 1 sentence. Not to mention, if he has facts regarding who receives Medicaid benefits.
So Republican members of Congress and the odd billionaire? Doesn't seem like a large pool since one group already has benefits from their government jobs, and the others can just buy the hospital before they need to be seen.
I'd like Dan to learn about my bestie whose husband died because he lost his health ins after his company went out of business after the 2008 Crash. She, an impoverished widow with 2 young children, was not eligible for Medicaid as an "able-bodied adult" while her 2 kids were. He can STFU forever.
Oh but Trump is the family friendly president!! That’s what they sold. Couldn’t trust that woman to be interested in families. So many bought their lies.
The “fraud” in Medicaid and Medicare - where it actually exists - is from insurers’ and providers’ erroneous billing. It’s not “welfare queens” lying on an application. I’m so fucking tired of that old trope.
Hey, Republikkkans - Ronald Reagan called and wants his lie back.
imagine my surprise when i moved from the DC 'burbs to eastern oregon and discovered that the Welfare Queen isn't really a young black woman named "Shaniqua" with salon nails, hair extensions & 3 baby daddies, but a middle aged white woman named "Tammy", the 3rd of a 5-generation welfare family. 🙄
Yeah, the old "Little old lady driving her Cadillac down to the welfare office to pick up her check." The Reagan recession broke my union, de-regulated my industry, got me laid off, took away my railroad retirement, reminded me how rich I used to be, then shamed me for being unemployed.
Playbook seems pretty familiar doesn't it? Rob the coffers, then blame the working people, minorities and immigrants. Everybody knows we are the real problem.
Even those rare undocumented immigrants who might be benefiting from some government program (not medicaid though) are likely contributing more to the US treasury in taxes than the Billionares and corporations are.
The latter are now getting another tax break, paid for by those who DO contribute.
Just like the opiate crisis was also caused by providers &drug manufacturers via mismanagement and not the fault of 'evil' patients looking for relief. Just like Ozempic shortage is caused by same thing - providers&companies doing bad job. Just like antibiotic resistance is caused by same+agricultur
Just like the biggest users of drugs are the wealthy (bc u have to have money to afford drugs). The biggest thieves vis wage theft by far are also the wealthy, not the poor (poverty actually doesn't cause immorality, entitlement does). The ppl who rape (Diddy, Epstein) & kill the most - the wealthy
Define able-bodied. Define adult. Define refuses. Define work. Hell, define children while you're at it. All of these words are open to interpretation, and I'm sure they are going to take the harshest one they can find.
If you’re able bodied, you’re not taking money away from anybody by being on Medicaid. Rather, if you’re on private insurance, you’re paying out of pocket for the healthcare of old and unhealthy people. Which would be fine if you were rich. But if you’re not, absolutely you should be spared.
I know four people on Medicaid. NONE of them are able bodied who refuse to work. I call Bullshit. No one can “Live” on medicaid. They are lying to justify the cuts.
We’re just deporting the criminals! Trump is not financially benefiting from the presidency! The check is in the mail! The wind took it! The dog ate my homework! Republicans are the party of the working class!
Faux Spews gets airtime once again. And this time it's (check notes) Lyin Dan Crenshaw. Another failed human below my dignity level to even listen to.
Why does Faux get so much airtime? THAT is how extremism gets normalized.
That’s the goal. NO healthcare for you. The poor need to be doing hard labor, not seeing doctors. I’m surprised they aren’t trying to bring back slavery.
They can watch people die from lack of healthcare while they sit in their mansions paying no taxes but they can’t also be Christians. They have made their choice.
Money over god.
Projection: Most Republicans in Congress are able-bodied people who refuse to work. Does that mean We The People can take away their money and benefits?
My own crazy thoughts is that any politician - local, state, and federal - should not be earning a salary higher than a majority of their constituents and should not profit from their position. They're supposed to be civil servants. Take away their salaries, and you'll see who actually wants to help
How do you know who’s working or not? You cut the money first to support the tax cuts then you backfill victims until you match the cut. Your idiot leader has caused a bad recession we will feel in weeks. People will be laid off. Under Biden jobs were tight and workers had some power. Not now.
Even if this were true (it isn't by a long shot), Medicaid is that bare minimum safety net insurance to get access to the most basic care & even people who can work & refuse to should have that *at least*!
They seem to think that the USA has a cushy social system that supports freeloaders. This attitude is hilariously misguided to me as a European immigrant. The actual freeloaders in the USA are the super rich!
The maga target audience consists of people who have been conditioned by years of oligarch-funded propaganda to believe everything and anything the cult leaders say. "Woke" and immigrants and trans and on and on and on. Yes, there is no relation to reality; the relation is to propaganda.
This whole obsession about the debt is almost a Republican sexual kink. You cannot be fiscally responsible and not seriously consider revenue. You could almost take them seriously if they did program cuts and increased revenue by taking the wealthiest Americans. Almost but not really.
You shouldn't be taking it away from anyone, because everyone needs healthcare.
This idea of deserving tiers - especially from a freeloader like Crenshaw, who is paid by taxdollars to undermine the lives of others to enrich his friends - is especially stupid when it comes to healthcare
Back inna day we called them the 'deserving poor'
Y'know, those kids who couldn't work anymore because they lost an arm in the factory, or the widow with 13 kids....
I like 'deserving tiers' though, it can be turned into 'deserving tears', what I want for Trump & his Magidiots, easily
Yeah h the able-bodies single person who has to work three jobs at minimum wage just to be able to pay their rent. Rep Crenshaw, maybe you should demand that workers get paid a living wage. In my area now it is $24 and change per hour
They just make shit up. Has he ever actually talked to anyone on Medicaid, like EVER? Have they just asked what's up with people's real stories? Of course not, they would have to have empathy for that! They'd have to care and be okay with being proven wrong.
Hey i know what this is, this is one of those straw man stories that legitimizes somehow ending Medicare and Medicaid for millions and millions of people.
Yeah, that's one of the problems with Crenshaw. Like Vance, these guys actually aren't stupid - evil and conniving maybe, willing to twist perceptions of the weak minded with tuned stories meant to glorify self and denigrate the 'other'. Tactically more polished than Trump, and more dangerous.
ITA that the intelligent ones are scarier, but it's also true that they lack Dear Leader's "charisma" so Maga may find them too fancy pants when DL kicks it. As with Putin, I wonder who's on deck when DL finally dies
If they weren't all such terrible people, I'd have a bucket of popcorn while watching the Machiavellian manoeuvres for advantage. The big ? is: Without DL's charisma (weird that it is) will the cult cling together? Does anyone fill the void? Is MAGA a herd, or more a composite that will dissolve?
It's always weird when I hear anyone talk about the Dumpster's "charisma" ~ because to anyone with a functioning frontal cortex, that's kinda like saying a malignant tumour has 'charm'.
I'm asking myself the same questions: what happened to Peronism or Chavism after they shook off the mortal coil? Putin's end interests me and not just because I really want him dead. Dude trusts no one and hasn't indicated a successor because like Trump, the only. . .
Does he mean the thousands of Walmart employees that they refuse to provide medical insurance to? The US system seems to be that employed people should get insurance through work? So why are huge corporations not held accountable if they don’t provide it?
In the Georgia program, 95% of the qualified workers couldn't get the benefit even though they were working, because the paperwork was so consuming, and it ended up costing the state more money than it would have cost to just drop the requirement. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/05/16/medicaid-work-trump-cuts/
He’s just repeating the usual anti-Welfare, dog-whistling nonsense so he can suggest that only “colored folks” get Medicaid. But there’s a ton of Red State white folks (many of whom support Trump) who are on it as well. But he and the others will couch the Medicaid cuts as anti-“DEI” and so on.
I take care of my two disabled parents because social security and Medicare doesn't pay me. I work much more than a job I would actually get paid for. So I don't deserve insurance that covers me seeing a doctor every year to make sure I don't have cancer again. These people are evil.
Caregivers who’ve had to quit the jobs that gave them insurance (which should not depend on your job anyway) and people with ALS and other fatal diseases and pregnant women and children.
Right, I will take care of my parents no matter what circumstances come up. I've had to go without a lot the past 8 years, but the love they showed me all my life makes up for it. I just hate that I don't bring actual money to help my medical and basic necessities.
I would've much rather someone remotely qualified took care of them but they won't. They'll let them lay in a shit diaper for hours when they're in rehab and send them home to die on you from the thing they're there for.
I'm sorry to hear that it's such a hard thing to go through as a family im sure you tired your best. Nursing homes and care for the needy is so unstable and not given nearly the help needed.
If one of your parents was a veteran, there is a program within the VA that can pay a caregiver. (At least before DODG-E). It’s hard to find, but it is there.
Neither were but thank you for the info. I used to get paid with my mom on medicaid not a lot,but still something. When my dad got his disability it combined their income so they both don't qualify for mediciad anymore.
Well, that's good. At least they can get healthcare.
Honestly, this is ludicrous. Why are we cutting access when everyone should have access to quality healthcare.
The money is there. Tax the rich & corporations & eliminate for-profit insurers. Those companies are already denying services.
I don't think there is ANY minimum for child labor on farms...
There are theoretical guidelines that are supposed to be followed: limits on the number of hours per week and the number of hours in a row on any given day, no ladders or heavy equipment, etc.
14 years old in most cases, but we all know that kids younger than that work, especially for under the table cash, and especially if it is a family business.
I believe they're referring to a proposal that only adults with children under 7 be exempt from the work requirement. Though, I had only heard that for SNAP rather than MA.
Crenshaw is a Texas sized liar, he's taking it away from cancer, kidney patients and blind adults. He's taking it away from people whose medical so high that if they did try to pay the bills they would become completely impoverished.
I mean, they're already cheering for the erasure of due process, which will no longer protect them when they voice their anger at the Medicaid cuts. They live in a different reality and are having their brain's chemistry used against them in a combination of nostalgia and High School mob mentality.
No point in appealing to their better natures - they don’t have any! These sociopathic ghouls only want people (i.e. indentured servants) who can work for peanuts to keep their lives running smoothly. Anyone else is just a drag on their way of life (indolent luxury).
Wonder how he is going to ensure that this happens? Hmmm, maybe actually look at all the records individually and find only those people who shouldn't be receiving benefits. Naah, the MAGA GOP is far too lazy for that. It's easier to sit around and do nothing. Funny, how that happens.
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In the dictionary, the definition of politician is “lazy motherfucker”
Most politicians' work extends beyond the time they are actually in the legislature. Out meeting constituents, providing services, holding town halls (except the GOP lately) is all work.
Hence why so many of them are so damn out of touch.
Where is the data to show that this happens?
Just say it, Dan. It's what you're thinking.
He Became the Face of Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement. Now He’s Fed Up With It.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-pathways-brian-kemp-luke-seaborn-testimonial-video
https://www.businessinsider.com/spacex-boca-chica-texas-starbase-bird-habitat-2024-7
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-pathways-to-coverage-hurdles
Wild times indeed.
Like 13 million children and disabled Americans...
He is a preacher of Trump cult, period.
Dan Crenshaw hypocrisy have ZERO limit!!!!
I saw him first.
🙄🤮
The others dont refuse to work, they can't get a job. I imagine many are homeless and no one gives someone a job when they dont have an address, phone, or shower.
I go from dumbfounded to murderous rage, so I have to ration my exposure to it all or I'll be apoplectic & die of an exploded heart
"a KFF analysis found that 92% of non-disabled Medicaid enrollees under 65 were employed in 2023"
Just take my money so I never have to call insurance again or walk past another person made homeless by medical debt or hear a friend is skipping preventative medical care bc they can't afford it.
But even if it wasn't, I'd pay so much tax to get to stop thinking about how fucked up the system is and watching people get hurt by it. Worth it.)
We have to get better at messaging and comms
That would be just question number 1 of many, from just that 1 sentence. Not to mention, if he has facts regarding who receives Medicaid benefits.
Hey, Republikkkans - Ronald Reagan called and wants his lie back.
The latter are now getting another tax break, paid for by those who DO contribute.
Either that or he is just an evil SOB!
Kicking people off Medicaid doesn’t solve the fucking problem, but it does, once again, show how cruel and awful Republicans are.
He is a fool.
Please explain... I'll wait.
Why does Faux get so much airtime? THAT is how extremism gets normalized.
Corporations do it on purpose so they don't have to provide.
Oh, so what you mean is..."People are saying"
Typical MAGA BS to keep the donors happy!!!
Money over god.
They have too much leeway.
I know he's just full of shit, but still need to mock the stupid white imbeciles who vote republican.
Zombie Fourth Estate: This MAGAt KKKult logical fallacy is going to create tons of click-bait and make us all kinds of money, so let's run with it.
This idea of deserving tiers - especially from a freeloader like Crenshaw, who is paid by taxdollars to undermine the lives of others to enrich his friends - is especially stupid when it comes to healthcare
Y'know, those kids who couldn't work anymore because they lost an arm in the factory, or the widow with 13 kids....
I like 'deserving tiers' though, it can be turned into 'deserving tears', what I want for Trump & his Magidiots, easily
https://www.house.gov/representatives
I’d rather the boogie man “lazy SOB” gets it.
MAGAs are truly bad human beings.
These are truly
Get bone cancer dan crenshaw.
I would've much rather someone remotely qualified took care of them but they won't. They'll let them lay in a shit diaper for hours when they're in rehab and send them home to die on you from the thing they're there for.
Honestly, this is ludicrous. Why are we cutting access when everyone should have access to quality healthcare.
The money is there. Tax the rich & corporations & eliminate for-profit insurers. Those companies are already denying services.
There are theoretical guidelines that are supposed to be followed: limits on the number of hours per week and the number of hours in a row on any given day, no ladders or heavy equipment, etc.
But no one enforces them.
Performative scumbag
Take his insurance away.
Familiarize yourself with this unholy movement! These people took part in the insurrection. They want your children white, ignorant, armed and angry!!
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/new-apostolic-reformation-christian-nationalism/
Hope it rankled
And, trump voters are really, really, really good at believing it.
Yes, a cruel monster deserves an equally cruel response to his lie.