Who would kick millions off health insurance in the middle of a pandemic? Yes, Trump.
In the midst of a pandemic when Americans most need health insurance, and millions cant find work the Trump administration wants to kick Americans off their health insurance if they arent working.
Heartless, but its true.
This week, the Trump administration and the state of Arkansas asked the Supreme Court to allow reinstatement of Medicaid work requirements. This disastrous policy was struck down by lower courts last year after causing 18,000 low-income Arkansans to lose their insurance. Subsequent research found that 95 percent of residents targeted by the policy were working, or had qualified for an exemption. They were kicked off Medicaid all the same.
Thats because the programs reporting requirements were so onerous and confusing that it was nearly impossible to prove compliance.
These efforts to erect artificial barriers to safety-net services that Americans are legally entitled to, and desperately need, are of apiece with other Trump regulatory actions.
President Trump claims to favor slashing red tape and bureaucracy. He boasts about his historic deregulation. Yet his administration has repeatedly raised regulatory costs for disfavored groups or perceived enemies (poor people, immigrants, media companies). It has been especially active in heightening administrative burdens as a backdoor way to limit access to safety-net programs, even when Congress rejected proposals to cut these programs directly.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-would-kick-millions-off-health-insurance-in-the-middle-of-a-pandemic-yes-trump/2020/07/16/ed7c72ee-c799-11ea-a99f-3bbdffb1af38_story.html
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,976 posts)just to punish the child's parents for contesting Fred I's will. If he could do that, eliminating the health insurance of total strangers would be no problem for him at all.
mitch96
(13,942 posts)seeing other peoples pain.......
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dlk
(11,600 posts)Trump is a sadist.
appalachiablue
(41,199 posts)Skittles
(153,298 posts)this is FUCKED UP