A Georgia Work Program Previews How Trump Could Reshape Medicaid
The nation’s only Medicaid work program is part of a broad Republican push to change how poor people qualify for health care. In a second Trump term, Medicaid could be a target for huge spending cuts.
Biden and Georgia Are Waging a Fight Over Medicaid and the Future of Obamacare
A fierce battle with Georgia over a Medicaid experiment with stricter enrollment underscores the vast divide between parties over how to cover lower-income Americans.
I worked in Florida’s Medically Needy Medicaid Program for several years. Many of these applicants are among the poorest American’s who cannot work due to disabilities and their children often living in rural areas who cannot vote or advocate for themselves due to lack of education and limited resources. Billionaire Republicans lobby for massive tax cuts and against helping these folks.
It’s gonna be so funny whoever wins. That’s why this election is so special and so much fun.
No matter what, we win. With comedy. Granted a Trump win would be the straight up funniest overall, but Kamala would be even funnier if you think about it from the perspective of tragedy.
I don’t plan to vote but I got a handfull of those red “I Voted!” stickers and plan to stick them all over my clothing on Nov 5. Like wearing a red clown nose in public. Hope to get some reactions.
Medicaid provides health care for the poorest Americans including children and the disabled. A good government should do that. Trump and the MAGA republicans have a “blame the victim” attitude toward the poor, particularly when they are not white. Also they want to deny services to immigrants. Consequently, the poor, children and the disabled will receive less medical care if Trump is elected, and their suffering will increase. This will have long term negative consequences for society.
I love how, instead of responding to the points I made, you just flagged my post for being somehow offensive or inappropriate. How? I literally said nothing offensive except pointing out the ways you are being foolish.
But please feel free to keep not responding, I guess logic and argument aren’t valued here so much as… I dunno. Carleas said something about contributing substance, but clearly that’s not the standard so… you tell me.
You ever wonder how we got to $35 trillion in debt? A not insignificant part of that is… social services obligations and “free” payments to poor people for: food, clothing, housing, transportation rides, medical care and medicine.
Let me reiterate this: I have worked in this system I have seen it from the inside. I mean in terms of budgets. I KNOW how much these things cost. For just one random person not working a job per year.
Feel free to ignore, but again. I don’t need to wonder how much of your own time and money you give to supporting the needy in society. Since you didn’t even respond to my point about that last time and literally cry about how my post was offensive somehow, yet it wasn’t. Maybe to you, since to you truth seems to be… highly offensive. Not my problem buddy.
The idea that the American national debt is primarily due to Medicare systems and social services has some basis, but it’s an oversimplification. The U.S. national debt stems from a variety of factors. While Medicare and social services (like Social Security) are significant contributors, they are not the sole or even primary cause.
The U.S. has been running budget deficits (where the government spends more than it collects in revenue) for many years. These deficits accumulate into the national debt over time. For example, the U.S. spends high amounts on defence—currently more than any other country. Defence spending has significantly contributed to deficits in some years, particularly during wartime or when the military budget increases significantly.
Lower tax revenues due to tax cuts or lower economic growth also increase national debt. For example, significant tax cuts (like those by the Trump government in 2017) reduced government revenue, leading to higher deficits in subsequent years.
Recessions, like the Great Recession of 2008 and the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, led to massive government spending on stimulus packages, unemployment benefits, and other relief programs. While these emergency measures were necessary at the time, they have also significantly increased the debt.
As the national debt grows, the interest payments on that debt also increases. With higher borrowing levels, especially during times of low interest rates, these interest payments become a larger part of the federal budget.
Where is the feasibility or logic, or ethics for that matter, in giving a poor person $100k in benefits per year, which is more than the average person earns working a job? Knowing you work 9-5 for an entire year and a significant part of your earnings are taken from you at gunpoint by taxes, some of those being given to the guy down the street sitting in his government paid-for apartment eating government paid-for food on his government paid-for couch taking government paid-for rides to government paid-for hospitals to get government paid-for medications.
Just replace government paid-for with YOU paid-for. The taxpayer.
At some point this all becomes quite ridiculous. People on the government dole consuming more in goods and services than you or I do working (I assume you are gainfully employed, maybe you aren’t). Talk about a moral hazard. Then combine the super generous welfare state with open immigration policy and see what happens. Why is the middle class suffering? Why is inflation and higher prices eating away at our earnings and purchasing power? Why do so many Americans working 2, 3, 4 jobs feel like they can’t get ahead.
But no, by all means please keep giving unlimited handfulls of free cash to the small group of people who don’t work or who work a little but are still below the imaginary line defined as “this is poverty”. Sure. And yeah, you are limited in how much you can earn if you are on Medicaid benefits. Which is another direct disincentive to finding employment. And let’s keep racking up the new trillions in debt to keep this generous free money machine system going, because taxes alone despite how oppressive they are on the middle class and the poor are not going to pay for all of this welfare. More and more debt is required to keep it all going. You ok with that? Of course you are. Because you don’t think about where it all ends.
Medicaid and Medicare are often confused. Medicare serves people who have contributed earnings to the Social Security program and their dependents. Medicaid provides health services to the poorest Americans and their children. According to recent data, Medicaid accounts for roughly 9% of the US federal budget. Last time I checked, the US healthcare system was the most expensive in the world, despite not being the best. That is the major cause of Medicaid over-cost. The Biden Administration has worked on lowering the cost of health care, and Harris plans to continue those efforts. The Republicans have a long history of opposing health care to the poor and children and Trump promises to continue those policies. This is the moral responsibility of a good government. More needs to be done to cut the cost of medical care which can be done only if obstructionist “burn down the system” MAGA Republicans are voted out of Congress.
I foresee that Trump will again give tax breaks to the richest and will cut Medicaid and Medicare. Maybe Musk will produce a plan, or the Project 2025 people. I hope I’m wrong. I don’t know what state you live in, but Medicaid contracts with the Feds vary from state to state but Congress sets the basic rules. States decide who is eligible and what services are covered within limits. Trump‘s early actions on healthcare signal is likely intention to wipe away some Biden era programs to lower drug costs and expand coverage. We’ll have to see if that includes Medicare and Medicaid which are designed to help the poorest Americans.
Communism is the best option. No government in the world has ever been communistic. That’s just isolated indigenous small tribes around the world.
They had a problem that everyone wasn’t the same through the world. So they made primitive currency like rare sea shells so if the trade wasn’t to their liking they could still get what they wanted.
That’s when capitalism became a thing on earth.
But, they all realized that they’re nothing without the support of others.
That’s when socialism was born.
The best way to handle economics.
Is to blend capitalism with socialism.
Socialism is about free education, building infrastructure, free medical care.
Capitalism is about creating a competitive edge for innovation. That can’t be done without socialism.
I am honored to have you talk down to me. I haven’t found any daylight between my views and those of Bernie Sanders with respect to the appropriate role of government. He calls himself a socialist. I would say a social democrat. But labels mean different things to different people. if communism has never been tried, it’s probably because it doesn’t work. I think it’s been tried, but it failed. The earliest church supposedly tried a theocratic form of communism in the beginning, but it didn’t last long. Other attempts were made in the communes of Europe, but they apparently failed too. And then, of course we have the Soviet Union Mao’s China. I’ve been to Cuba, It’s not going well there economically.
