AOC: Only 2% of people on Medicaid are able-bodied.. I saw Mike Johnson saying we have to stop all the able-bodied men from being on Medicaid — as if it’s a crime for someone to have healthcare in America. Healthcare is a human right, and everyone should have it.
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Johnson wants to kick poor folks off medicaid. When we should akready have national health.
Repubs always make stuff up about poor people playing video games etc
Johnson was an unusual case, the country was still emotionally tied to JFK.
We need to hit them with a surprise attack...right at their strength (which is totally a false image)
#FiretRump
#BuildtheResistance
https://chng.it/WBR8LRVmr7
There are right wing low rents who dont believe Dems have jobs.
Dem's fault not taking 15-20 of these (now baked into society) and tearing them apart one by one.
John Kerry wanted to hit back on the Swift Boating, but his staff talked him out of it.
All Dallas based assholes. The same group who made anti McCain, 'not a hero' production.
Welfare queens 💯 exist.
Did anyone remind him of this?
People need to VOTE for their own interests like we do in 🇨🇦 that’s why we have free Healthcare, Dental care, $10 Day Care etc!
If it's telling you you must do everything yourself, whatever your circumstances, then it is telling you it is superfluous and redundant.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) was one of just eight House lawmakers to vote against seizing assets from Russian oligarchs.
https://www.nydailynews.com/2022/04/28/aoc-defends-lonely-vote-against-seizing-assets-of-pro-putin-russian-oligarchs/
Remember, many Walmart workers earn so little that they still qualify for federal assistance.
That is corporate welfare because Walmart refuses to pay a living wage, instead chooses poverty wages.
People working full time yet still qualify for Government help because their minimum wage job doesn't support their family.
Madness.
FUCKING FOOLS.
Have they not heard of preventative care?
The GOP will shoulder ALL the blame for decreased life expectancy and skyrocketing infant mortality. THEY WILL ALL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE.
Never let them forget that THEY CAUSED IT ALL.
hardly seems like a bad thing
I fight everyday to smile. Work. Complete projects that healthier people slide on.
I fight everyday to keep it a normal day.
I fight everyday to hide the bleeding and pain.
I would love to know what being able bodied is, Mike.
Trump does not care
about the legal system.
Trump’s religious right political Base
does not care what Trump does.
Trump’s administration and Trump’s “political Base”
does not care what
“YOU” democrats think.
“You” democrats can go pound sand,
Trump doesn’t Care.
“You” need more than Talk.
And he doesn’t, personally. No basis for understanding or empathy.
(On the other hand, he is tasked with v difficult decisions in the House & is equally ill equipped to make them.)
They act as if people want something that they don’t deserve, something out of the ordinary.
But it’s because insurance cos are bribing (lobbying) Congress. It’s a legalized racket.
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceUnited
I had to charge the work in order to pay for the dentist to do it right. I’m still paying.
We don’t have healthcare, we have insurance.
I’m fighting with ours right now, they denied the work they said they would pay for, after my husband had it done.
Just like United Healthcare.
I’m still fighting for money we are owed from our Health Insurance too.
It’s never ending.
Thank you.
There’s absolutely nothing I can agree with more than this.
I lived in vermont for a while and met Bernie several times.
Fk these fascist republicans.
By the way why does Johnson refer to « able bodied men » as if there’s something wrong with disabled men, and women?
Evil Christian
#handsoff
https://ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/27/the-truth-about-waste-and-abuse-in-medicaid/
We need universal fucking healthcare.
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/16/mike-johnson-budget-medicaid-house-republicans
I thought that Medicaid is for poor people, period. Didn't know it's almost exclusively for the disabled.
#forSHAMEusa!
#HealthISaHumanRIGHT
#FCKFASCISM
#NOTMYFCKGPRESIDENT
The number(officially) "able-bodied" is ~20M or ~25% of all enrollees...but the vast majority of them are ALREADY WORKING, or in school, caretakers, etc. THAT'S the point.
I'm pretty sure THIS is what @aoc.bsky.social was referring to:
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/5-key-facts-about-medicaid-work-requirements/
For almost any insurance scheme, you want to insure as many healthy, "able bodied" people as you can, right?
If everyone is able-bodied, then premiums just... go down. It's just a cross-subsidy of money from the same pot, right?
🤷♂️🤨
Lori
Said with friendship and admiration
Johnson's version of Christianity would be to call the beggar lying by the gate a bum and whip the beggar out of town.
He's massaging it like the pro he is.
Are
Pillaging
Everything
Healthcare IS a human right.
So are clean air and water; food security; safe, affordable housing; and a basic livable income.
Because they are prevenient, these are more important than free speech or voting rights.
What is free speech or voting to someone diseased and starving?
STOP the 3 day work weeks!
https://generalstrikeus.com/
I'm happy to be healthy and working, and don't take it for granted.
The problem I’ve had is that they didn’t do anything to pass it or other laws when they had the trifecta in 21-22
We need results not just talking points to win back the majority
I also see a LOT of people who don't realize Biden's Senate "majority" included Joe Manchin and Kristen Sinema.
He's on disability and medicaid. He works pt- but no ft job he could work would pay him enough/ offer insurance.
What are we doing?!🤬
I've been waiting for the heavens to unleash the lightning, for those who believe, or for the algorithm to hit JACKPOT JACKPOT JACKPOT, either way reckoning soon