Trump plots to punish poor people like no other president in history ever has

[babylonsister]

Friday, November 17th, 2017

Trump plots to punish poor people like no other president in history ever has
By Matthew Chapman | November 17, 2017

Trump’s Medicaid administrator plans to let states kick Medicaid recipients off their insurance if they can’t find work, further building on the "welfare queen" myth.



Republicans have failed, time and time again, to cut Medicaid. It remains highly popular, with voters in Maine decisively choosing to expand it last week, and so far public opposition has thwarted any legislation to roll it back.

But according to the Hill, the Trump administration is now planning to unilaterally let Republican governors take a sledgehammer to Medicaid for millions of people, by imposing “work requirements” to obtain coverage — and they have made their motives perfectly clear.

In the coming months, the Trump administration could approve waivers allowing eight states to implement the work requirements: Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, Utah and Wisconsin. All but three of the states accepted ObamaCare’s expansion of Medicaid to cover more low-income adults.

The Obama administration rejected similar waiver requests, but “those days are over,” according to Seema Verma, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Verma has said that arguments against the work requirements are “a tragic example of the soft bigotry of low expectations consistently espoused by the prior administration.”

This would be the first time a president has ever allowed a state to waive Medicaid funding requirements for the express purpose of covering fewer people — a heartless and dangerous precedent.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. Trump has invited SATAN into his soul

he has had SATAN in his soul since he was a little boy

[The Genealogist]

2. Complete lack of basic empathy

I doubt the man has ever had to miss a meal, much less a doctor's visit or a prescription refill, because the choice is between food or medical care. I doubt the man has ever had to decide between the rent or the utility bill, or a dozen other painful choices poor people have to cope with on a daily basis. On top of having to cope with such choices, they have to cope with people like Trump mocking and degrading them. Foul excuses for human beings, Trump and his deplorables.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. This is one of his favorite

go to whipping boy themes. The Guy is a Fascist piece of sh*t.

[Doreen]

4. Yet, a whole lot of poor people voted for him.

Sie Konnen in die Holle gehen.

[blueinredohio]

5. I HATE to see it happen because some people can't work diseases, mentally challenged

and physically challenged but sometimes you have to learn the hard way

[dalton99a]

6. Trump is pure unadulterated evil.