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Zorro

(18,342 posts)
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 02:38 PM Apr 2025

Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare

Full article title: Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

Medicaid is a US health insurance program for people with low incomes. It's funded by states and the federal government, and like most government programs that help people in some way, it's one of the Trump administration's targets for cuts.

Why? Videogames, of course.

More specifically, part of the plan is to implement work requirements for Medicaid eligibility—this is currently only a feature of the program in Georgia—and to justify adding this administrative hurdle for patients and states, Republicans are claiming that access to taxpayer-funded healthcare is causing young men to waste all their time playing videogames instead of working.

"No one has talked about cutting one benefit in Medicaid to anyone who's duly owed—what we've talked about is returning work requirements, so, for example, you don't have able-bodied young men on a program that's designed for single mothers and the elderly and disabled. They're draining resources from people,” said House Speaker Mike Johnson last week.

"So if you clean that up and shore it up, you save a lot of money, and you return the dignity of work to young men who need to be out working instead of playing videogames all day."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/young-men-playing-videogames-day-013604874.html
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Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare (Original Post) Zorro Apr 2025 OP
According to MAGAMike bucolic_frolic Apr 2025 #1
Young men, demographically, need the least healthcare of any group. House of Roberts Apr 2025 #2
Sounds like Reagan's fictional Cadillac-driving "welfare queen" PA Democrat Apr 2025 #3
oh man, this reminds me... ret5hd Apr 2025 #4
Man with free health care, barely works, Johonny Apr 2025 #5
And, yet, they are more useful than you lame54 Apr 2025 #6
Two immediate thoughts.. yardwork Apr 2025 #7
Two words... 2naSalit Apr 2025 #8
Au Contraire. maxsolomon Apr 2025 #10
Validity of this claim... 2naSalit Apr 2025 #9
the same young men that tRump won? pstokely Apr 2025 #11
Sounds Completely Fabricated ProfessorGAC Apr 2025 #12
Most young men aren't even worrying about healthcare. Crunchy Frog Apr 2025 #13

bucolic_frolic

(54,010 posts)
1. According to MAGAMike
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 02:42 PM
Apr 2025

Medicaid seems to have been designed with rather sexist and ageist targets in mind. It was only targeted to single mothers and the elderly? Did LBJ say that?

House of Roberts

(6,398 posts)
2. Young men, demographically, need the least healthcare of any group.
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 02:55 PM
Apr 2025

They're also the least skilled of any group. Medicaid only costs government when it's used. Young men rarely need it, hence, they aren't the drag on the system he wants to claim.

Johonny

(25,415 posts)
5. Man with free health care, barely works,
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 03:09 PM
Apr 2025

Worried about moochers.

GOP congress people insider trade on spare time instead of video gaming. You know, productive activities.

yardwork

(68,961 posts)
7. Two immediate thoughts..
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 03:28 PM
Apr 2025

1. This comment might piss off the "burn it down" demographic who voted for Trump because they think he's fun. But they won't see it.

2. I don't think any young people decide not to work because "Wow! I've got Medicaid!" There might be some young people covered by their parents' health insurance who don't feel an obligation to work. And so what? There aren't jobs for all of them anyway. I guess Mikey plans to have them pick crops, once all the migrants are gone.

maxsolomon

(38,173 posts)
10. Au Contraire.
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 04:07 PM
Apr 2025

The GQP never has to prove shit. Dems will have to prove the negative: that there are NO videogame-playing Medicare moochers.

Otherwise, the Laken Riley principle applies: 1 Venezuelan murderer means Venezuelans are murderers.

2naSalit

(99,979 posts)
9. Validity of this claim...
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 04:02 PM
Apr 2025

Is bullshit.

The hoop jump and dance of the 7 fucking veils one must perform in order to even qualify for medicaid is extreme in many cases. These shitheads think that you just waltz into the local welfare office and get on madicaid like one orders a pizza have no association with reality.

ProfessorGAC

(75,839 posts)
12. Sounds Completely Fabricated
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 04:29 PM
Apr 2025

Does it happen? Probably.
It also probably represents 0.001% of total Medicaid spending, so if this is an actual target, they're chasing phantoms.

Crunchy Frog

(28,214 posts)
13. Most young men aren't even worrying about healthcare.
Tue Apr 15, 2025, 04:31 PM
Apr 2025

And statistically, most of them aren't likely to need it.

Young men who are inclined to play video games all day will likely do it regardless of medicaid status. But if they should happen to have a medical emergency, not having coverage will mean that the medical facilities will have to eat the cost, and eventually be pushed out of business.

Which I guess is probably their real agenda.

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