What I would like to ask Republicans who insist on imposing work requirements for Medicaid

[Ohiogal]

or food stamps.

Wouldn't offering an able-bodied person without dependents job training or free community college be a better idea than making them work at a minimum wage dead-end job in order to receive Medicaid?

For people with chronic health conditions that prohibit them from holding down a job.... such as diabetes, asthma, depression, etc. ....why don't we offer them six months of Medicaid with no strings attached, first, THEN require them to undertake job training or work? You know, get them on the road to better health first, so then they can then look for work or enroll in school?

And, for heavens' sake .... not everyone has access to a computer or is computer literate. Not everyone has a car or lives where there is public transportation. Stop pretending they do. And stop with the ridiculous on line reporting requirements that, if missed or are late, cuts people off for six months from health services. That is especially cruel.

My two cents.

[dogman]

1. That's the gop health plan, hasn't changed.

"Get sick, die quick." Unless your rich, then you can gamble on a better outcome.

[spanone]

3. they. don't. care. at. all.

just like separating kids from parents.....we would invade another nation that did this to Americans.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. That has been a GOP talking point

since Reagan and Newt.

[LonePirate]

6. A racist talking point for the GOP. Shame on any Dem who sides with this crap.

[Wellstone ruled]

7. The real probllem is this,

big dollars in Campaigns.

Example,Joe Lieberman,never saw a Insurance Company he could not suck up to.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Very good points, Ohiogal. Maybe one day, the GOP will learn that there are other ways ...

to accomplish something other than the 'cut and slash' mentality they all seem to have in their so called efforts to rein in deficit spending (according to them, but I no longer listen to them especially after their ridiculous 2017 tax cut and jobs bill, which will cause $4 trillion in negative spending by itself).

Think of all the good that this $4 trillion could have done for those who really needed it (college, health benefits, etc.). This would have done miracles I think for the entire country. Take care.

[gratuitous]

10. But how can you best humiliate someone?

Sure, job training or community college might be proven avenues for a person's self-betterment, and relatively cheap to boot, but you're not humiliating them enough! And if they aren't held up to public ridicule, how will people ever know not to persist in being poor? Also, how are payday lenders expected to stay in business if people have a little money of their own?

[exboyfil]

8. This proposal will destroy the hospitals

Already my daughter is seeing difficulty in extracting payments for Medicaid from the private companies which operate the system in our state. The hospital is eating more and more of the cost.

They can't legally turn away patients without the ability to pay. Larger hospitals will absorb additional expense and turn around and charge other patients more (those without a strong health insurance plan for negotiation). The smaller ones will go belly up.

[Ohiogal]

9. Doesn't Medicaid expansion under the ACA

provide federal $$ to hospitals?

Too bad for the people whose states did not take the expansion.