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Kiwi Farms
So Trump's administration just set up a system where working age, non-handicapped medicaid patients will be required to get work if they want to keep the free health care coming. It's not in all states yet and it just passed a few hours ago but I expect salt on a level one might consider apocalyptic.
Now if you just hate the news sites and reading all those words is too challenging let's cover a couple of keynotes to ensure you get the gist.
1.) A common statement that you're going to see getting parroted a lot (more on that down below) is 'But most people on Medicaid already work'. This new system is not out to hurt them.
2.) Only ten states are currently participating in this. Last I checked there was a few more than ten but anything over the number of fingers I own is foreign to me.
3.) The number of people it is actually supposed to effect is staggeringly low.
Now out of all those numbers the one they want to utterly kill off is the three percent. Everything about that is pretty much going to remain where it was, more or less based on the situation. The states involved actually want to help initiate systems and classes to help people who can't find work actually find work...which hilariously starts pissing them off because the first immediate excuse for that is 'what if I don't have time for classes'?
Of course it's not a salt mine if I don't share some salt so here you go, enjoy.