SPLC: 17,000 people in Arkansas lose Medicaid coverage due to work requirements

[guillaumeb]

From the article:

A new report released today by the Arkansas Department of Human Services shows that another 4,600 residents were stripped of their Medicaid coverage this month, bringing the total number of residents who have lost Medicaid coverage because of the state’s work requirements to approximately 17,000.

To read more:

https://www.splcenter.org/news/2018/12/17/splc-17000-people-arkansas-lose-medicaid-coverage-due-work-requirements

Interesting how Trump supporting states are engaged in a race to the bottom in so many ways.

[akraven]

1. We've supported SPLC since the '70's.

They speak truth. Morris Dees was awesome. Got to meet him once.

[guillaumeb]

2. Welcome to DU.

Sad that so many Trump supporters act and vote against themselves. GOP controlled states are obsessed with attacking the poor and many poor white GOP voters go along with the attacks.

[akraven]

3. Lack of education under Repukes will do that. n/t

[guillaumeb]

6. True. Defunding education is a favored tactic.

And writing textbooks to convey the conservative view.

[akraven]

8. My kids all had library cards by age 4.

They got tired of mom saying "look it up"!

[guillaumeb]

10. Ours were homeschooled.

The library was a huge resource for us.

In secondary school, we used Zinn's A Peoples History of the US.

[akraven]

11. Oh that was a fabulous resource!

I grew up on Encyclopedia Brittanica - dad got me the whole set when I was 9!

[guillaumeb]

13. The set can also be used for excercise.

Weight lifting, and other things.

[akraven]

15. LOL! I no longer have the set.

It got drowned in a hurricane. Long ago and far. far away. I still miss it!

[guillaumeb]

17. A belated welcome to DU.

And I was being a bit funny. It is an excellent resource, but internet access is far easier.

[akraven]

18. Thanks, guillaumeb!

Longtime lurker reporting for duty finally!

[guillaumeb]

19. A good time to be here,

what with the slow motion implosion of Trump and the GOP.

[akraven]

20. Heck yeah.

Dems WILL save this great nation. Hanging in there works.

[lunasun]

12. Give that to all the kids in the family at some point ! Extended family youngins too

Great for a curriculum I bet

[guillaumeb]

14. It gave them an alternative to what is generally found in US textbooks.

[akraven]

16. Got my daughter a set in 1983.

She ALWAYS challenged her teachers on various points!

[hatrack]

4. Enjoying the "Dignity of Work", Arkansas? Enjoying your "Freedom"?

Merry Christmas, everybody!

[guillaumeb]

5. Yes, the freedom to have no healthcare.

And low wage non-union jobs.

[standingtall]

7. Does not surprise me that Trump supporting States are engaged in this sort of thing

because they don't fear losing elections. In Kentucky Matt Bevin is deeply unpopular over this sort of thing. One poll had him with just a 29% approval rating, but watch when he is up against a Democrat in 2019 he will get reelected, because red state Trump supporters are idiots. There I said it.

[guillaumeb]

9. Yes, you said it.

And, much as I would like to argue, I cannot.