The Cynical Republican Plan to Cut Medicaid: Work requirements set up a thicket of paperwork that leads eligible Medicaid recipients to lose their insurance. That’s the point.

https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/

• Requires states to conduct eligibility redeterminations at least every 6 months for Medicaid expansion adults.

I'm on Medicaid currently because I'm on SSDI. I have to recertify my eligibility every year. It takes the local office 4-5 months to make the determination. A LOT of people are going to get left behind if this happens. Local offices will never be able to keep up and people are going to lose coverage.

Those of us on the bottom of society that have to utilize the safety net already had to go through hell to get approved in the first place in most cases. These assholes lack empathy completely because they've never had to utilize the safety net and think we're lying or something about needing it.

If you're in the U.S. and have never needed any kind of government assistance, let me clarify the process a bit:

Imagine you're on a plane and you have to jump out with a parachute to get to safety. That's scary.
Just before you jump, you're told you have to charge up the parachute release by free falling through rings in the sky. That are on fire.
You make it through all the rings of fiery death and your parachute doesn't open because it didn't charge up the release for some reason (why would it, in what world does it make sense to have to do that?)
As you're falling you see what looks to be like a bouncy house on the ground. Lucky for you there's a safety net halfway between you and the ground.
The safety net has a tiny tear in it and as you fall into the net the tear becomes a split down the entire net and you continue falling.
Bracing for impact into the bouncy house you can see it's starting to sag a little. Is it leaking air? Will you make it in time before the air is completely out?
The bouncy house had enough air to keep you safe thankfully and you never touch the ground until the air completely deflates from the bouncy house.
Oh but wait....you've been on solid ground for a year? Nope, you're going to repeat the process only this time instead of a bunch of rings of fire you only have to go through one. But there's no safety net....and no parachute. Just the ring of fire and the slowly leaking bouncy house on the "ground".

They're not taking Medicaid away, they're just purposefully making it harder to keep it. So technically they didn't "cut" Medicaid. Because, after all, Trump didn't lie when he said Medicaid and Social Security were off the table, right?

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That number wouldn't cover the tax cuts for the rich and it's over a decade. POS republicans.
The fiscal centerpiece of the “big, beautiful bill” now making its way through Congress is to take Medicaid away from jobless adults. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the work requirement would save $300 billion over a decade and take health insurance from 7.6 million people. This would not come close to offsetting the deficit-exploding effects of extending and expanding the 2017 tax cut, but it’s one of the only big spending reductions the congressional Republican caucus can agree on.
Repubs: "Stop saying we're cutting Medicaid! We're not cutting Medicaid! So relax! We're just changing the rules so that no one will be eligible for it any more."
https://www.kff.org/tracking-the-medicaid-provisions-in-the-2025-budget-bill/
• Requires states to conduct eligibility redeterminations at least every 6 months for Medicaid expansion adults.
I'm on Medicaid currently because I'm on SSDI. I have to recertify my eligibility every year. It takes the local office 4-5 months to make the determination. A LOT of people are going to get left behind if this happens. Local offices will never be able to keep up and people are going to lose coverage.
Those of us on the bottom of society that have to utilize the safety net already had to go through hell to get approved in the first place in most cases. These assholes lack empathy completely because they've never had to utilize the safety net and think we're lying or something about needing it.
If you're in the U.S. and have never needed any kind of government assistance, let me clarify the process a bit:
Imagine you're on a plane and you have to jump out with a parachute to get to safety. That's scary.
Just before you jump, you're told you have to charge up the parachute release by free falling through rings in the sky. That are on fire.
You make it through all the rings of fiery death and your parachute doesn't open because it didn't charge up the release for some reason (why would it, in what world does it make sense to have to do that?)
As you're falling you see what looks to be like a bouncy house on the ground. Lucky for you there's a safety net halfway between you and the ground.
The safety net has a tiny tear in it and as you fall into the net the tear becomes a split down the entire net and you continue falling.
Bracing for impact into the bouncy house you can see it's starting to sag a little. Is it leaking air? Will you make it in time before the air is completely out?
The bouncy house had enough air to keep you safe thankfully and you never touch the ground until the air completely deflates from the bouncy house.
Oh but wait....you've been on solid ground for a year? Nope, you're going to repeat the process only this time instead of a bunch of rings of fire you only have to go through one. But there's no safety net....and no parachute. Just the ring of fire and the slowly leaking bouncy house on the "ground".
They're not taking Medicaid away, they're just purposefully making it harder to keep it. So technically they didn't "cut" Medicaid. Because, after all, Trump didn't lie when he said Medicaid and Social Security were off the table, right?
- I can promise you they know they're being cruel.
  The supposed savings come from when people like you die sooner.
They have to find money to aid the genocide in Gaza.
- Just like Germany, who sells Israel weapons.
Mother fuckers