This sounds sexist to me. 🤷♀️
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.
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In February, healthcare researcher KFF reported that the majority of people who use Medicaid do work. 64% of Medicaid recipients under the age of 65 work full or part-time, according to the organization’s analysis, and most of those who are not working have an illness or disability, are caregivers, or are in school.
And if being able to see a doctor while unemployed makes people lazy, I’m not sure why US politicians spend so much time fretting over China’s growing economy, because its universal healthcare program covers over 95% of its population.
The US is an odd duck when it comes to providing healthcare services for its people, as some effort at universal healthcare is available in dozens of countries around the world. China has it. US neighbors Canada, Mexico, and Cuba have it. The countries of Europe have it. Russia has it. The US does not.
At his confirmation hearing in January, it wasn’t clear that new US health secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr knew the difference between Medicaid and Medicare, two distinct programs. He also suggested using AI to improve Medicaid.
Speaking of AI, new education secretary Linda McMahon seems to think that it’s “A1,” like the steak sauce, so things aren’t going much better over there.
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