Trump readies new round of controversial Medicaid changes

[workinclasszero]

The changes, involving work requirements and questions about drug use, could push tens of thousands of people off coverage.
By DAN DIAMOND 08/16/2018 06:56 PM EDT

The Trump administration is preparing to let conservative-led states impose additional restrictions on the nation’s health program for the poor that could push tens of thousands of people off coverage, POLITICO has learned.

The high-stakes changes, involving work requirements and questions about illegal drug use, have been the subject of intense behind-the-scenes lobbying in recent months by federal and state lawmakers in the latest chapter of the GOP’s long-running efforts to reshape Medicaid — a policy priority extending back to the Reagan era.

And they are moving forward even after a federal judge blocked Kentucky’s work requirement in June, saying the Trump administration failed to consider how the plan would affect coverage, and new evidence that thousands of Arkansans will lose benefits because of the state's work requirement. Advocacy groups have sued to stop Medicaid work requirements in both states and threaten further litigation if more changes are OK'd.

Nonetheless, the administration is expected to sign off soon on work requirements in three more states — Arizona, Wisconsin and Maine — while approving limited drug testing questions sought by Wisconsin’s GOP Gov. Scott Walker, according to four individuals with knowledge of the process.

Advocates say the result will be disastrous for poor and working-class Americans.

“The Trump administration seems intent on moving as quickly as possible to approve these harmful waivers which will clearly result in many more thousands of vulnerable people losing their Medicaid coverage,” said Joan Alker, who runs Georgetown University's Center for Children and Families.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/16/medicaid-changes-trump-work-drug-use-741890

[dalton99a]

1. Another day, another attempt to murder Americans.

[workinclasszero]

3. GOP: Trillions for billionaires, a baseball bat in the nads for all other Americans!

[ooky]

7. Including a lot of Trumptards.

[Matthew28]

2. Pure evil

The goal is to force the poor into a form of wage slavery.

[workinclasszero]

4. Republican death panels

On the way.

[haele]

5. It would be more humane just to create local "fitness panel" for all citizens...

Have everyone with a felony record or who requires federal services to line up in some remote community center out of the public eye.
Line up the felons, the elderly, disabled, and "able bodied" adults with their families...
Separate out the kids and put them "in daycare"

Everyone gets a form to fill out. Their police file, credit rating, and hospital records are already stacked in front of the panel.
One side of the room, there's a door, behind which all the kids and a federally subsidized McJob "with benefits" are waiting
Other side of the room, there's a door, behind which there is no return.

Doesn't matter if a married couple gets split up and goes through different doors. In those cases, automatic divorce.
Any kids who aren't collected go into federal "fosterage" to get sold off to good religious adoption agencies.

If after a year, a "citizen" still needs assistance, back to the panel. Once a kid turns 18, to the panel s/he goes.

Tough Love, and all that other Dominionist social engineering lies. It's Triage time for Freedumb, don'tcha know?

I have no doubt that's the Federalist Society/ALEC view on how the government should handle aid.
On edit - I weep, because I've heard more than a couple "conservatives" think this way aloud before since before Reagan. There's some very hate-filled, selfish people out there who want the rest of the world to be just like them...cheating, small and bitter.

Governance is like running a farm to them - so long as they're the farmers.

Haele

[GeorgeGist]

6. Mean-spirited Christians ... are FAKE christians.

Stupid Christians don't care.