"Able bodied people on Medicaid will pick the crops"

[orangecrush]

Tell Grandma she's leaving the nursing home!

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[pandr32]

1. Who decides who is able bodied?

So, breathing is it?

[orangecrush]

6. A pulse

[pandr32]

8. Probably!

[Wiz Imp]

12. It's the people subject to the work requirement in the new law.

https://grantsforseniors.org/one-big-beautiful-bill-50-questions-and-answers/

17. Q: What are the new Medicaid work requirements? A: Adults aged 19-64 without disabilitiesmust work, volunteer, or study 80 hours per month (about 20 hours per week) . You must report this every 6 months. The final version also requires parents with children over 14 to work.

18. Q: Who is exempt from Medicaid work requirements? A: People with disabilities, pregnant women, caregivers for children under a certain age, students, and people over 64. However, you may need to prove your exemption status regularly.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-official-suggests-replacing-deported-224436893.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE-XzkwEQ6a_M6A6c-6dqyGdIMjF3BBlckEx3EcYzCIZvYPzz2kNXerchHpF6wFdtvOvSarI80bJi4bV034wcvPZuAF6q02awOjSkqcgDreM4EdNTzJ2Ns68co4AQMI_jL1gSTUmfSLjlHer0FLvE5Ae9VUa-FOcco_NNUKPr6EX

However, it now appears that at least one Trump administration official — one who is specifically tasked with supporting and regulating America’s farmers — is supportive of the raids on farm workers plowing ahead. Rollins has, she professes, found a solution for those in the industry she oversees: Farmers short on field laborers due to mass deportations could replace the work with some sort of amorphous AI. You know, the kind that picks tomatoes. Alternatively, they could nab some of those purported freeloaders (child-free, able bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 64) on Medicaid who will soon have to complete work requirements (at least 80 hours per month of work, volunteering, education, or training) in order to access health care, thanks to Trump’s disastrous, Medicaid-slashing megabill.

[pandr32]

15. Thank you for this.

One "may need to prove...exemption status regularly" sounds like it could be a problem.

[valleyrogue]

16. Anybody under 65 who is single, no dependent kids, and no disabilities, that's who.

This nonsense is a backdoor way to gut ACA, which had allowed people previously denied Medicaid coverage.

[Red Mountain]

2. How do the crops get to them to be picked?

Brooke can't possibly mean they have to drive out to the country?

I mean, that would be stupid. Logistically impossible.

What farmer would want to rely on that work force?

Anybody ask them?

Would they be required to make make their fields and facilities ADA compliant?

Only seems fair, I suppose.

[Diamond_Dog]

3. That concept is so egregiously stupid

They must just be pandering to the cult. Like the above poster said, what farmer will hire a completely inexperienced person or crew of people to pick crops for 12 hours a day. The migrants who come here to do farm work, work hard and know what they’re doing. I don’t know how any farmer supports this orange disaster.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

4. Nice hat, "The Gulf of America"? The gulf is the space bewteen his ears. Gulf: abyss, chasm...

[orangecrush]

10. The man has no decorum

Or shame.

It inflates his ego to see his ridiculous bullshit bowed to by our institutions.

[Srkdqltr]

5. They seem to think medicaid is welfare. Instead of health insurance.

[Irish_Dem]

9. GOP wants only working Americans to get healthcare.

If you cannot work, you should die.

[msongs]

7. oh sure, all those white christian republicans on medicaid will rush to sign up for crop picking asap nt

[SheltieLover]

11. Reminds me of the scene from Happy Gilmore wherein Happy's grandma is being forced to work in the nursing home

[UTUSN]

13. Labor camps, internment camps, concentration camps

[superpatriotman]

14. Wheelchair-bound are closer to the ground

For lower crops.