Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements
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Honestly things like this show me the President has to much power. There should be government agencies where no political party can touch it without significant oversight and approval from both the president and both houses of congress.
Medicare, Medicaid, FBI, FCC, FAA, The Fed, and more all should be outside admin control of the president and any single party or group of individuals. Only when you have a 2/3s majority of both the houses and the president should you be able to make such broad sweeping policy changes.
Not just the executive, but the federal government in general has way too much power. There are so many things that the federal government does which it wasn't meant to do, all justified by an extremely bad faith reading of the commerce clause. It is a significant source of problems for our nation, because it makes federal elections (and in particular the election for president) super high stakes for people. We would be much better off without the various perversions of the constitution that FDR pushed through, but I suspect there's no political will to walk it back (because people love getting money from the government).
"Significant source of problems" that what, we have health care and clean air? You indicate your desire to tear it all down & that's what we are seeing everywhere, but why, and for what? It's so unfathomable, so unclear that "we would be much better off" to not have the world's best institutions as we do, the greatest science the best education, the world's leading medicine.
It's so unclear what drives this destructive anti-government fervor to me. You've given me not even a single remote small hint. Neither had this administration as they have, as barbarians, come in and chainsawed as much as they can down. For what? What makes people so opposed to a society? Wanting so badly to make sure there is no government, no services, no help, no collective will?
Most will never be asked for 'proof' they are unable to work as this memo directs states to review medical records to automatically exempt qualified patients.
Blindly believing a source with a known history of both bias and lying leads you to these conclusions. It's pure garbage, the headline is literally false by any angle.
[1] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-11094.pdf
There's plenty here to discuss without being hyperbolic.
On par with this administration- Goons pulled back because they're murdering innocent civilians at car stops? Chief goon steps up and says "put them back!"
Then he takes to the waves to instill fear and uncertainty in our election process.
Americans are being boiled alive, nice and slow- and a third of them love it!
If an individual IS too sick to work it should be relatively simple to get the required documents to prove that fact. God know i had enough hospital social workers and doctors asking me if it wanted said documentation.
I really hope you have a great job which fullfills you and thats the reason why you continue working but A LOT of people do not have something like this.
It only shows how little our society values humans despite us having all resources and all knowledge necessary to feed and house every single human on the planet right now.
Wish you a fullfilled happy life.
Thats common sense. People with HIV are usually able to work, and usually not terminally ill in the typical sense.
There are already comments defending the silly idea of HIV patients being excluded from work expectations: “if that’s the cost of a social safety net …”
That’s not the cost of a social safety net anywhere else in the world.
The current administration isn’t stupid. They know how get their opponents to freak out and say stupid things, and every stupid thing they say outweighs 100 reasonable things.
Be careful: work requirements are a mine field of helpfulness, good governance, and cruelty.
A half-century of struggle in other industrialized western nations happened precisely because of this kind of thing. And in the 50s and 60s and 70s ... because of that -- and because of fear of contagion from the USSR -- most countries put in universal health care systems of various forms which eliminated the need for means testing and "charity" type medical care in the first place and defined quality health care as universal available.
Time for that struggle again.
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/common-dreams-media-bia...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49089109 (citations)
> Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn’t Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements
Putting that aside, is the estimated terminal deadline a good measure for subsidy qualification...ie I'm dead in 5 years from my conditions, so when should I be exempt from the work requirement?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...