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red dog 1

(27,806 posts)
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 01:43 PM Mar 2019

Trump Officials Take Bold Steps on Medicaid

The Hill
March 20, 2019


The Trump administration is pulling out all the stops to encourage red states to make conservative changes to Medicaid without Congressional input.

Administration officials are pushing ahead and granting approvals to states seeking to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients, even in the face of legal challenges and large-scale losses in the number of people covered.

Last week, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) granted Ohio's request for work requirements, the ninth such approval since Trump took office.

The approval was announced just one day after administration lawyers were in federal court defending the work requirements for two other states, Arkansas and Kentucky.

"To approve it the day after the court hearing was pretty in-your-face," said Joan Alker, executive director of the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families.
"It's a statement of 'we're going to push forward with our policy regardless of what a judge thinks.' "

Read more:
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/434834-trump-officials-take-bold-steps-on-medicaid

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Trump Officials Take Bold Steps on Medicaid (Original Post) red dog 1 Mar 2019 OP
What's next with the publicans? safeinOhio Mar 2019 #1
And death benefits. TreasonousBastard Mar 2019 #3
Yes, make them WORK, otherwise NO HEALTH CARE! mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #2
I agree with you about The Hill's phrasing of "Bold Steps" red dog 1 Mar 2019 #5
Yeah, you get my point ... mr_lebowski Mar 2019 #7
lol red dog 1 Mar 2019 #9
Welcome to District 12 underpants Mar 2019 #6
No compassion for those who suffer..... ProudMNDemocrat Mar 2019 #4
They have no compassion for ANYONE. period spanone Mar 2019 #8
The rethuglicants answer to health care ... lpbk2713 Mar 2019 #10
+ 1 red dog 1 Mar 2019 #11
 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
2. Yes, make them WORK, otherwise NO HEALTH CARE!
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 01:51 PM
Mar 2019

Oh, what's that? You're on Medicaid and not working because you're actually deathly ill? TOO BAD! Get to WORK, or DIE!

Trump is the ANTI-CHRIST.

BTW, NICE WORK, MEDIA ... with your "BOLD STEPS" bullshit.

red dog 1

(27,806 posts)
5. I agree with you about The Hill's phrasing of "Bold Steps"
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 02:00 PM
Mar 2019

I think the use of the word "bold" implies that it took "courage" to do what the bastard did.

I also agree with you about the possibility of Trump being the AntiChrist.
(That would explain a lot)

If he's not the AntiChrist, then he's got to be the Devil.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
7. Yeah, you get my point ...
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 02:23 PM
Mar 2019

Allow me to suggest a more accurate headline:

"Breaking Campaign Promises, Total Dick Donald Trump Does as the Total Dick Does, and Pulls Total Dick Move by Fucking Over Poor, Sick People in the Most Cowardly, Bullshit Manner Possible"

There ... that's better.

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,786 posts)
4. No compassion for those who suffer.....
Wed Mar 20, 2019, 01:52 PM
Mar 2019

From dibilitating illnesses, physical disabilities, even severe mental disabilities.

What are Republicans planning to do? Make even Seniors work until they 80 and rop in order to get Medicare and Social Security ? Piss on that.

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