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Full article title: Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressmanMedicaid 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 eligibilitythis is currently only a feature of the program in Georgiaand 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 owedwhat 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
bucolic_frolic
(54,010 posts)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)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.
PA Democrat
(13,417 posts)ret5hd
(22,185 posts)time for my annual recreational prostate exam!!!
Johonny
(25,415 posts)Worried about moochers.
GOP congress people insider trade on spare time instead of video gaming. You know, productive activities.
lame54
(39,207 posts)yardwork
(68,961 posts)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.
2naSalit
(99,979 posts)PROVE IT!
maxsolomon
(38,173 posts)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)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.
pstokely
(10,851 posts)nt
ProfessorGAC
(75,839 posts)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)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.