U.S. Budget & OBBB | OCT 1 - Gov’t Shutdown Begins

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Does anyone have an idea of what 'you gotta work" to get Medicaid means ?
I certainly know day laborers that work independently that are on Medicaid-as are their children
Do you have to have an employer swear you work for them--or is it tax filings ?
If I mow someone's lawn for $100-am I suppossed to declare that-pay Soc Tax etc?
 
mpaer said:
Does anyone have an idea of what 'you gotta work" to get Medicaid means ?
I certainly know day laborers that work independently that are on Medicaid-as are their children
Do you have to have an employer swear you work for them--or is it tax filings ?
If I mow someone's lawn for $100-am I suppossed to declare that-pay Soc Tax etc?
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“… The new Republican plan would require beneficiaries to spend at least 80 hours a month working, training for a job, in school or volunteering to qualify for Medicaid.…

Work requirements are meant to reduce the number of people on the program: Roughly a third of the $800 billion in health-care savings in the GOP’s sweeping tax bill would come from the work rules, which would result in 4.8 million people becoming uninsured, according to an estimatefrom the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office reported by The Washington Post’s Fact Checker.…”

For SNAP, “… Able-bodied adults between 18 and 54 who don’t have dependents must work at least 80 hours a month to be eligible. Those who don’t qualify can only receive food assistance for three months in a three-year period. People can be exempt because of homelessness, being in foster care or for other reasons, or states can apply for waivers if there aren’t enough jobs in a region [which the bill would define as over 10% unemployment rate in a county — which not many counties currently meet].

 
Most people can see through that bullshit, right? I mean, how many people would take this statement at face value:

I'm not having an affair, I'm just transitioning to a polyamorous relationship.

Everyone would be able to call out that bullshit, right? Everyone, yes? I can't think of a single person who would fall for that. It's too obviously stupid to be a funny sitcom gag.

And that is exactly what Lankford is doing on national TV. People understand it's bullshit, right?
 
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Of course, they're basically trying to keep their pet projects and boondoggles for their states while sacrificing programs like Medicaid that help the poor, a group that the GOP cares nothing about and holds in contempt. The compromise budget bill that emerges from all this will likely spare a few of the programs that the House GOP wanted cut or abolished, still cut taxes aimed at the wealthy getting the largest cut, explode the deficit even worse than the House GOP version would, and still gut programs like Medicaid aimed at the less-fortunate. They'll also cut Medicare by claiming that they are only going after the virtually nonexistent "fraud" in the system, when that will just be an excuse to cut the program's budget.
 
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