DutchJazzer
Banned
https://www.npr.org/sections/health...et-states-require-people-to-work-for-medicaid
wow no more free rides
wow no more free rides
Trump will let states require people to work for medicaid
- Thread starter DutchJazzer
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Key to this is "able bodied". If having a disability, being elderly, a child or a pregnant woman is the way around that I have doubts on how many people this will affect. Out side of those categories most of the Medicaid recipients are working. This "free ride" that people speak of is wildly exaggerated.
candrew
Well-Known Member
There will always be anecdotal stories about leeches who game the system, but other than children and the elderly, the vast majority of recipients from these programs (Medicaid, Food Stamps, etc.) are WORKING poor people - People who have jobs that 40-50 years ago were sustainable enough to make a (meager) living on but today due to income and real wage disparity need assistance.
DutchJazzer
Banned
good to know, so their will no millions of little tims dying from this regulation change
Or disabled and thereby excluded from this rule.
I'd like to see more of a LDS church welfare system for those unemployed in Utah. For one, it would look good on a resume of someone being on prolonged unemployment and seeking a job.
We could start with a basic program of having some unemployed take torches to the invasive phragmites along the Wasatch front, and then continue on to target other invasive plants and animals. We could kill a lot of starlings if we wanted to and all it would cost is a little bit of oversight (jobs that could even eventually be filled by an unemployed person), equipment, and materials. We could send the Utah Lake carp removal team some free labor to increase that effort. We could bolster Utah's agricultural and ranching industries by giving them free, unemployed labor. Some might say that will only displace others already on the job. Nope, if targeted correctly it would make many more competitive by lowering the production price and your grocery store bill. We are already the largest poultry exporter in the world, and with BRICs growing so will that market. Lower the cost of Utah turkey and you'll see a nice spice in sales. That means more jobs for the locals.
I wouldn't mind seeing graffiti removed either. I'm sure there are plenty of ideas out there that we can come up with. 2 days a week type of work so unemployed still have time to search for a job and interview.