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Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here’s What Happened When Georgia Tried It.
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GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump’s proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia’s example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-medicaid-work-requirement-big-beautiful-bill?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

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@FishNamedDog@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 2 days ago
@ProPublica The point of a government is things like Medicaid. It is to redirect funds, to be an institutional Robin Hood, to do things that are unfeasible for individuals to do, like cracking down on monopolies. If a government refuses to do such a thing--if it refuses to serve its basic purposes, to make things better for individuals who, for whatever reason, cannot do "productive" work and ensure they can live, not only are they worse than Neanderthals, it has ceased having a reason to exist.