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Bluchek Mark's avatar

“This is similar to what Bill Clinton did back in 1996 with welfare reform, basically saying that you cant be a layabout and get welfare.”

Will some intrepid member of the press please call these Bozos out when they repeat BS talking points like this? The Clinton era “welfare reforms” changed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which didn’t have work requirements, to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) which did. But both programs provided direct benefits to recipients. Medicaid does not. Medicaid pays health care facilities and providers. It won’t pay for rent, groceries, or any other necessities. So this trope about huge numbers of able-bodied people living in their parents’ basements somehow profiting off their Medicaid is BS.

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Mingo's avatar

Finally someone who understands Medicaid is not health insurance but payment to health care providers for services rendered. What happens to the many elderly and disabled people who can't work because they're living in a skilled nursing facility. They're really living it up. It's utter bullshit nonsense.

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