When They Voted For Trump In 2016
A major initiative of the Trump administration has been adding work requirements to benefit programs for the [implied to be lazy] poor....[That] includes Medicaid for the first time in its history...This year, Arkansas became the first state to roll out the requirement. As a result, more than 12,000 people there have lost their coverage...
Adrian McGonigal:I thought that everything was good about this. I thought it was just a one-time deal, that you report it, and then that was it.
Catherine Rampell:He was wrong. He was supposed to log those hours online every month. He became one of the 12,000 people that the state has booted from the Medicaid rolls in the last three months.
[What's more,] Arkansas has the lowest household Internet access of any state," [so] it can be difficult for Medicaid recipients to log their work hours in the online-only portal, which shuts down from 9:00 pm every night until 7:00 am the next day...”
So is Adrian --now living off his Mama at 40 years of age-- saying that he thought this republican plan was all-good because only the lazy non-working folk were going to be the ones SOL as far as getting access to healthcare?
Maybe I'm reading between the lines wrong. However, there are plenty of people who think like Adrian might be thinking. And I don't understand how you can live in a country as rich as this one and not believe that everyone deserves to see a doctor when they are ill...period.
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