Tony Bark@pawb.social to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 28 days agoTrump Adviser Admits Republican Tax Bill Makes Huge Cuts to Medicaidwww.rollingstone.comexternal-linkmessage-square7linkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareMakeitstop@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·28 days agoSo, you need to be working a job that pays like shit and doesn’t provide healthcare, thus subsidizing the shittiest employers. Or you need to prove you are disabled. Which of course probably requires supporting medical evidence. Which would require access to healthcare. Oh, and even if you have an obvious disability, we’re gonna make it as hard as possible to apply for disability benefits. Justified by the idea that somehow having access to a doctor enables people to sit on the couch and play video games all day. Just admit that you (at best) don’t care if poor people suffer and die as long as it benefits you and your donors in some small way.
So, you need to be working a job that pays like shit and doesn’t provide healthcare, thus subsidizing the shittiest employers.
Or you need to prove you are disabled. Which of course probably requires supporting medical evidence. Which would require access to healthcare.
Oh, and even if you have an obvious disability, we’re gonna make it as hard as possible to apply for disability benefits.
Justified by the idea that somehow having access to a doctor enables people to sit on the couch and play video games all day.
Just admit that you (at best) don’t care if poor people suffer and die as long as it benefits you and your donors in some small way.