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Many if not most of Medicaid recipients are employed. The reason they qualify for Medicaid is so many employers don't offer healthcare coverage to their employees anymore. That's what happens when R policies kill unions and cater to the wealthy.
The working poor are really getting screwed in this bill and people need to understand that it is not the lazy guy living in his mom's basement who benefits from this program. It's the part time worker who doesn't et healthcare coverage with their job and may have to juggle multiple part time jobs that don't offer insurance.
I think Dems should invite people like this to cut ads, appear in hearings, whatever. We need to put faces to these people and hear their stories.
Blue Full Moon
(3,156 posts)pwb
(12,456 posts)guarantees eligibility for most Government services. A built in benefit from the rest of us.
Tadpole Raisin
(1,891 posts)on the State and later the federal government. Then vote against fixing or modernizing either system and tell everyone its no good and will fail unless we pass legislation to take healthcare away from people and insure its failure.
The republican long term plan in a nutshell.
senseandsensibility
(24,247 posts)Tadpole Raisin
(1,891 posts)Hornedfrog2000
(866 posts)Breakthrough. This is a cult, and they are going to only become more entrenched. We better be ready to take back DC by force in 3.5years
LaRaven
(222 posts)Were lifting up the voices of people whose lives have been directly harmed by the Trump administration.
We wont be bullied into silence. The first step in fighting back is speaking out. And thats exactly what we are doing.
gab13by13
(31,206 posts)Put faces to the devastation that is about to come.
Should have done town halls like the MSNBC town hall that put faces on the fired federal workers.
I'm afraid Dems are using the strategy to let Krasnov burn it all down and then beat them in the next election.
karynnj
(60,779 posts)I don't think it would have changed anything, because the Democrats were very successful in getting what was in the bill out. It was unpopular even with Republican voters.
The reason it passed was that too few Republican LEGISLATORS in the House or Senate were willing to vote against a bill that may admitted would hurt many constituents. The most some did was to try to trade their vote for something that helped just their state.
senseandsensibility
(24,247 posts)We're gonna need them in the run up to the midterms!