GOP Congressman Wants Americans Off Medicaid and Working

Monday, October 06, 2025

Rep. James Comer (R-KY): "There are people who get huge subsidies for Obamacare and that's obviously very helpful for them, but who's paying for that? It's the small business owner, it's the people that are working, it's the people who have group health insurance plans. Their premiums are skyrocketing because of the gimmicks in Obamacare. It's just not fair to everyone. You got Democrat and socialist plans that create winners and losers. We gotta look at everybody. We care about the people that are gonna lose " ah, that could potentially lose healthcare. But there are people that can't afford healthcare. We've gotta get people off Medicaid and into the workforce and into private healthcare, but we can't because off of these subsidies in this fake healthcare economy that was created with Obamacare."

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Says Comer, a longtime, ongoing, and enthusiastic sucker off the public teat.

#1 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2025-10-06 05:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Denigrating humanitarian policy as "socialist" gets curious minds to examine just what exactly is "socialism"

#2 | Posted by hamburglar at 2025-10-06 06:09 AM | Reply

He wants us working, but he won't provide work for us.

How's the Jobs Report coming, Donald?

#3 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-06 08:19 AM | Reply

In the face of a major emergency-nobody, nobody, nobody can afford health care except for the ultra-rich.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-10-06 08:21 AM | Reply

GOP Congressman Wants Americans Off Medicaid and Working

Working what jobs?

In the Trump Economy, there's fewer job openings than job seekers.

And I can't imagine disabled Medicaid recipients are going to be anyone's first choice.

#5 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 10:07 AM | Reply

Either Gomer Comer doesn't know the difference between Medicaid and Medicare, or he's lying through his teeth.

Or, considering Comer ... both.

FTW, someone on Medicaid does NOT get coverage via the ACA. And the reason they're on Medicaid is because they have no assets.

Republicans want to add three days a week of transportation expenses to and from jobs, or to and from volunteer work ... for folks deemed too poor to afford medical premiums.

And all to justify borrowing trillions for tax giveaways.

#6 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-06 10:36 AM | Reply

Another Repub hypocrite who has been in government nearly his entire life lecturing the rest of us as if he can.

#7 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-06 10:58 AM | Reply

Goober Comer enjoys the best health insurance in America paid for the taxpayers.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-10-06 11:08 AM | Reply

Now you're messing with West Virginia's meth belt.

#9 | Posted by fresno500 at 2025-10-06 11:20 AM | Reply

Love these Trumper-Free threads!

It's like 2/3 of the threads these days.

#11 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-06 09:36 PM | Reply

I want all of Gomer Comer's health insurance pulled immediately.

#12 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-06 10:50 PM | Reply

I want all of Gomer Comer's health insurance pulled immediately.

#13 | Posted by a_monson at 2025-10-06 10:59 PM | Reply

Well, the subsidies set to expire are borrowed money paid to insurance / medical industry complex, who make obscene profit. So either way there will be 'taxes' given away to the rich. ('taxes' because it's not taxes per se, it's all debt now. Taxes only cover usury to the banking cartel and MIC spending)
also, the kid in opie's picture is obviously not able-bodied therefore unaffected by work requirement. He's being exploited by leftists as a poster child for the insurance industry.

#10 | Posted by fishmarket

$120 billion in tax cuts to the ultra rich in the Big Beautiful Bill
$180 billion in yearly corporate subsidies
$10 billion far bailout

But no, it's the disabled and the working poor that are the problem!

#14 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-07 12:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 3

MAGA ---------- like daddysfist support the noxious------------------- who just pissed away $20 billion on Argentina.

#18 | Posted by Reinheitsgebot at 2025-10-07 02:22 AM | Reply

Remember, some of the leftists' hostage demands are that we fund benefits for noncitizens and illegal interlopers.

#16 | Posted by fishmarket

Demonstrably false bulls*&^ talking point.

So which stupid pile of s*&^ retread is this?

#19 | Posted by jpw at 2025-10-07 02:32 AM | Reply

#19:

Remember, some of the leftists' hostage demands are that we fund benefits for noncitizens and illegal interlopers.

This is the syntax of either an illiterate foreigner or faulty AI.

#20 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-07 03:17 AM | Reply

"disabled Medicaid recipients are not affected by a work requirement."

^
Always nice to hear from the voice of experience.
How did you disable yourself?

#21 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 09:31 AM | Reply

In 2018, House Republican James Comer only had a net worth of $5,285,011 and platinum healthcare overseen by the attending physician of the United States Congress, a USN Admiral, so we shouldn't be too hard on the poor man who makes $174,000 per annum: www.opensecrets.org

#22 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-07 09:39 AM | Reply

"the subsidies set to expire are borrowed money paid to insurance / medical industry complex"

So?

"either way there will be 'taxes' given away to the rich. "

One is in return for services, the other is a tax giveaway. Are you actually stating you don't know the difference?!?

#23 | Posted by Danforth at 2025-10-07 10:43 AM | Reply

-Have enough to worry about without NONCITIZENS soaking up benefits. Remember, some of the leftists' hostage demands are that we fund benefits for noncitizens and illegal interlopers.
#16 | Posted by fishmarket

How about a little fire, Scarecrow!
#17 | Posted by fishmarket

Creating a scarecrow about illegals getting benefits when the Dems proposal doesn't include that and the law doesn't allow it.

MAGAt Pedos sure are stupid.

#24 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-10-07 05:32 PM | Reply

Have enough to worry about without NONCITIZENS soaking up benefits.
#16 | Posted by fishmarket

Is that what you do, get benefits as a non-citizen?

#25 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-10-07 05:55 PM | Reply

*** Rural Hospital Closings Will Be Fatal for Red States ***

Across the country, hospitals are vanishing, and a new wave of Medicaid cuts could accelerate the collapse.

Dummkopf's Trumpf's Big Beautiful Bill slashes nearly $1 trillion in Medicaid funding over the next decade. The junta says this cuts wasteful spending and will create a $50 billion fund for rural hospitals. But many health experts say that's not nearly enough.

Already, nearly 100 rural hospitals have closed or eliminated inpatient services in the last decade, threatening health care access to some of the more than 16 million people living in rural communities who rely on Medicaid.

Source: abcnews.go.com

"So get off Medicaid and get back to work!"

#26 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-10-08 09:31 AM | Reply