Friday, June 27, 2025

Congress Is Pushing for a Medicaid Work Requirement. Here's What Happened When Georgia Tried It.

Georgia, the only state with a Medicaid work mandate, started experimenting with the requirement on July 1, 2023. As the Medicaid program's two-year anniversary approaches, Georgia has enrolled just a fraction of those eligible, a result health policy researchers largely attribute to bureaucratic hurdles in the state's work verification system. As of May 2025, approximately 7,500 of the nearly 250,000 eligible Georgians were enrolled, even though state statistics show 64% of that group is working.

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NEW: GOP lawmakers want to nationalize Medicaid work requirements to offset Trump's proposed tax cuts. Yet Georgia's example shows that this could threaten health care for nearly 16 million Americans and cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. By @savmargaret.bsky.social

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-- ProPublica (@propublica.org) Jun 26, 2025 at 7:01 AM

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This is the heart of the reason I've been saying losers who aren't eligible under their parents health ins policy anymore, and refuse to work, need to get very concerned.

Social safety nets should be exactly just that, not a way for disgruntled millennials and gen Z'ers to beat the system after not contributing a dime to the system.

The article sounds like it was written by social utopia dreamer.

#1 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-06-27 09:55 AM

And crap like this is why we need Medicare for All.

There shouldn't be a question of whether you have a job, don't have a job, are a citizen, not a citizen, any of it.

If you're human and here, you should get healthcare. No insurance companies, no questions, you get healthcare when you need it.

Every other developed country on the planet has figured this out. Lots of developing countries have figured this out.

#2 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-06-27 10:08 AM

There shouldn't be a question of whether you have a job, don't have a job, are a citizen, not a citizen, any of it.

#2 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-06-27 10:08 AM | Reply | Flag:

Sounds beautiful. How much of your income are you willing to contribute to pay for it?

#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-06-27 11:19 AM

Democrats: How can we help deserving people get healthcare?
Republicans: How can we stop deserving people from getting healthcare?

#4 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-27 11:30 AM

No future in this society.

#5 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-06-27 06:41 PM

It's going to persist until people wake up to the fact both parties are currently run by the same people and Trump is using a cult built on hate and fear to rule the nation.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-27 07:22 PM

How much of your income are you willing to contribute to pay for it?
#3 | POSTED BY LFTHNDTURDS

What were the tax brackets when America was great?

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#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-27 07:24 PM

How much of your income are you willing to contribute to pay for it?
#3 | Posted by lfthndthrds

How much of your income are you willing to contribute to Social Security?

The correct answer is zero. Yet you still contribute. Why?

#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-06-27 07:26 PM

Put work requirements on the tax cuts. Make billionaires work.

#9 | Posted by TenMile at 2025-06-27 08:01 PM

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