Thirty percent of Medicaid recipients are Latino

[senseandsensibility]

according to the Kaiser foundation. Just saw on Rev. Al's show. Two thoughts occurred to me: 1) Latinos work the kind of low paying jobs that do not provide health insurance 2) Latinos are going to be a target again of trump's policies.

Of course, there are plenty of low income white people who will lose their healthcare too. Low wage workers are the main users of Medicaid, in spite of the propaganda. Greedy employers do not want to pay for healthcare for their employees.

[jrthin]

1. Oh well. nt

[kirby]

2. FAFO...

Maybe 47-48 percent of Latino men should not have voted for Trump?

[senseandsensibility]

4. True but what about the huge percentage of white men

who voted for trump (by far his core support)? Many of them will lose healthcare too. I somehow think that the Latino voters will learn their lesson before they will.

[ananda]

3. So I guess now they can become farm slaves.

Well, that does seem to be what they voted for.

[Norrrm]

5. Who is on Medicaid?

Women account for just over half of Medicaid enrollees (52.2%), slightly higher than their share of the overall U.S. population (50.7%).
Non-Hispanic White enrollees account for 39.6% of all Medicaid recipients (versus 58.0% of the U.S. population as a whole). Hispanic people, who can be of any race, comprise 30.8% of enrollees (versus 19.7% of the population), and Black people make up 20.8% of enrollees (versus 13.5% of the population). The share of Asian American enrollees (6.0%) was about the same as their share of the overall population (6.6%).
Medicaid enrollees ages 19 to 64 are more likely than Americans in that age group overall to have never been married (47.9% vs. 36.3%) or to be divorced or separated (14.8% vs. 11.1%). They’re much less likely than Americans overall to be currently married (34.9% vs. 51.0%).

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/06/24/what-the-data-says-about-medicaid/#:~:text=As%20of%20January%202025%2C%2071.4%20million%20people%20were,million%20children%2C%20or%2023%25%20of%20the%20U.S.%20population.