A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to work in order to be exempt from new work requirements that go into effect this coming January.
While introducing over $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans, last year’s massive GOP tax and budget bill also imposed new 80-hour-per-month work requirements that states must implement for Medicaid expansion recipients, who receive government-subsidized insurance coverage at or below 138% of the poverty line.
The law specified that those who are “medically frail or otherwise have special medical needs” are excluded from the work requirement, and specifically listed people with a “serious or complex medical condition.” But it remained unclear what exact conditions met these criteria.
Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a new rule stating that even if a person receives a terminal diagnosis for a disease like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or Parkinson’s, that is still not enough for them to be exempt from the work requirements.
Beginning on January 1, 2028, it says they must also demonstrate to states that their condition “significantly impairs” their ability to meet the work requirement.
Terminally ill Americans have NO excuse for not committing acts of heroism on a massive scale.
No government benefit work requirements until the Mitch McConnell Equal Work Requirements for Congress bill is passed.
Pass the MMEWRC now!
Cruelty is the point.
What the fuck is judges rational for denying this? I hope fucking judge gets fucking terminal ass cancer and force to work.
Of course. They would much rather see poor people with expensive needs die off. Your life has no value to these fascist ghouls. Not unless they can extract something of value from you.
The whole idea of a work requirement for medicaid is insane. You can’t mooch off healthcare to support yourself, it isn’t a replacement for income. If anything, this will only cause more people to become unable to work because they lose access to the care that helps keep them in the workforce.
It’s completely backwards. They want you to be outraged because some poor person might get government funded healthcare without having a job. The real outrage is that employers can pay workers a low enough wage that they need government assistance to make up the difference.
The cruelty is the point
I’m sorry, work where, exactly?
Can someone please give a second solution to everything that’s going on?
Where is the second solution?
Oh look. Further evidence we’re all fucking slaves. Time to eat some fat fucks face off.
Sometimes I hope hell is a real place.
I have to say, that doesn’t seem unreasonable. My understanding is that one can get a terminal diagnosis long before one becomes too sick to work.
Fuck off
If I find out that I’m terminally ill, I’m spending my days doing shit I enjoy with the people I love
Your attitude is precisely what makes 'Murica such a shit hole
Imagine just offering up this opinion of your own free will
“Hey honey, I’ve got 3 weeks to live. I’m off to the pizza hut to do the night shift of delivering pizzas so I can get the healthcare I need to work at the Pizza Hut to deliver pizzas. Thanks orange man!”
And where do you draw the distinction between being too sick and not?
The same place you do for people without a terminal diagnosis - you have to have a system for doing that anyway.
Yeah cause that totally works for neurological diseases and disorders that dont show symptoms generally until 10-20 years after diagnosis… next up chemotherapy patients still have motor function! Meaning they can run a register hurdurrr
Can’t wait for the exciting new frontier of paying disabled people below minimum wage
Accurate username.
