Get a job or lose Medicaid? Arkansas and Georgia show it's not that simple.

[Dulcinea]

(USA Today) Republicans in Congress are resurfacing an old idea − requiring many adults on Medicaid to get a job in order to keep their health insurance.

The work requirement is one of several ways the GOP is seeking to slash hundreds of billions of dollars from Medicaid, the government health program for low-income and disabled residents that covers about 1 in 5 Americans. Medicaid also covers pregnant women, 2 in 5 child births, and nursing homes for some low-income seniors and others.

Conservatives who support the idea say a work requirement would motivate people to seek employment and potentially secure health insurance through the workplace, saving taxpayers money. A Medicaid work requirement for healthy adults is about "empowering Americans" and would save more than $100 billion over a decade, according to U.S. Rep Dan Crenshaw, a Texas Republican, who introduced the legislation this month.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/job-lose-medicaid-arkansas-georgia-182846547.html?.tsrc=daily_mail&segment_id=DY_VTO_CORE&ncid=crm_19908-1475736-20250225-0&bt_user_id=jlKQpTiIrs8glxiW14uy%2BM5ZBew0p%2BBIgk5uCZdy5QNf7C4zzr%2FlH%2BLZItWidtJi&bt_ts=1740489582040

[roscoeroscoe]

1. So, pregnant lady with 1-year old out there running a weed wacker?

This kind of noise runs up against reality pretty quick. But that doesn't matter, does it?

[KT2000]

2. When someone has to live in a nursing home

their assets are depleted. This is where people have to go on Medicaid. There is an assumption by these idiots that Medicaid is for poor people, who they despise, when it is also for people who have had to spend everything they have for medical care or nursing home care. What exactly do the republicans think they will do when their assets run out - put them on the street. That has been done before.

[DBoon]

3. So what jobs still provide health insurance?

Any job that a Medicare recipient would get would likely have no benefits, especially in Arkansas or Georgia.