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Related: About this forumMy idiot state senator (Tom Greene) wants Medicaid recipients to work
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/editorials/2018/02/14/medicaid-bill-low-income-iowans-legislature-delays-drug-tests-work-requirements/332659002/Why?
The best result from a state welfare program is the number of citizens who remove themselves from assistance via education and employment, Greene said.
Actually Medicaid is not a state welfare program. It is a health insurance program largely funded by the federal government. Providing coverage to people helps ensure they have the care they need to be physically and mentally well enough to hold a job. It ensures health providers are paid to care for otherwise uninsured Iowans.
More than half of the Iowans who rely on Medicaid are children. Only 16 percent of beneficiaries in this state are adults not also categorized as disabled or elderly. Kids and people living in nursing homes are unable to work. The majority of able-bodied adults on Medicaid already have jobs, and many of them have full-time jobs.
We lost one of the best legislators ever (Tom Courtney) to this idiot.
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My idiot state senator (Tom Greene) wants Medicaid recipients to work (Original Post)
rurallib
Feb 2018
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Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)1. I want him to shut up and go back to parking cars.
rurallib
(62,411 posts)2. he's smart enough to do that?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,109 posts)3. Sorry, cars deserve better.