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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThere's No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan's Trump-inspired #Medicaid Proposal
These legislators get paid to think, but no thinking here!
05/10/2018 07:18 pm ET Updated 6 hours ago
Theres No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigans Medicaid Proposal
The plans architects say they didnt mean to disadvantage black cities, but they had easy ways not to.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michigan-medicaid_us_5af49fa3e4b032b10bf8c60c
Michigan Republicans are pushing a new, Donald Trump-inspired bill that would require Medicaid recipients in the states mostly black cities to work to keep their health benefits, but exempt some of the states rural white residents from the same requirement.
Republican state Sen. Mike Shirkey, who wrote the legislation, has denied any discriminatory intent. He apparently came up with the bills most controversial provision which has drawn withering scrutiny from legal experts on the suggestion of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce.
We were just trying to be helpful, Michigan Chamber lobbyist Wendy Block told HuffPost. It was really just a simple suggestion, not one that were married to.
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Under the bill, Medicaid recipients in 17 mostly white counties, all represented by Republican senators, would be exempt from the work requirements, according to an analysis by the Center for Michigan, a liberal think tank. But Medicaid recipients in the six municipalities with the highest unemployment rates, including Detroit and Flint, would have to work at least 29 hours a week to keep their health benefits. All six cities have black majorities or significant numbers of black residents.
The disparity stems from a provision in the bill that would lift the work requirements in counties with unemployment rates of over 8.5 percent but not from cities with similar joblessness rates. Since most urban counties in Michigan contain both high-unemployment cities and their richer suburbs, Michigans biggest cities would be subject to the work requirements.
Take Detroit. Its in Wayne County, which had an unemployment rate of 5.4 percent in 2017. But the rate for the city itself was 9.3 percent, well over the 8.5 percent cutoff for counties. That means its majority African-American population would be subject to the Medicaid work requirement, while the mostly white residents of high-joblessness counties in the northern part of the state would not.
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There's No Good Excuse For The Racist Impact Of Michigan's Trump-inspired #Medicaid Proposal (Original Post)
riversedge
May 2018
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standingtall
(2,785 posts)1. We should not be having a debate if rather medicaid work requirement
exemptions are racist. The debate we should be having is we shouldn't have medicaid work requirements for anyone in the first place.
safeinOhio
(32,675 posts)2. I've moved back to Michigan
just to vote out the current elected officials.