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Wiz Imp

(9,269 posts)
12. It's the people subject to the work requirement in the new law.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 08:03 PM
Jul 2025
https://grantsforseniors.org/one-big-beautiful-bill-50-questions-and-answers/
17. Q: What are the new Medicaid work requirements? A: Adults aged 19-64 without disabilitiesmust work, volunteer, or study 80 hours per month (about 20 hours per week) . You must report this every 6 months. The final version also requires parents with children over 14 to work.

18. Q: Who is exempt from Medicaid work requirements? A: People with disabilities, pregnant women, caregivers for children under a certain age, students, and people over 64. However, you may need to prove your exemption status regularly.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-official-suggests-replacing-deported-224436893.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAE-XzkwEQ6a_M6A6c-6dqyGdIMjF3BBlckEx3EcYzCIZvYPzz2kNXerchHpF6wFdtvOvSarI80bJi4bV034wcvPZuAF6q02awOjSkqcgDreM4EdNTzJ2Ns68co4AQMI_jL1gSTUmfSLjlHer0FLvE5Ae9VUa-FOcco_NNUKPr6EX
However, it now appears that at least one Trump administration official — one who is specifically tasked with supporting and regulating America’s farmers — is supportive of the raids on farm workers plowing ahead. Rollins has, she professes, found a solution for those in the industry she oversees: Farmers short on field laborers due to mass deportations could replace the work with some sort of amorphous AI. You know, the kind that picks tomatoes. Alternatively, they could nab some of those purported freeloaders (child-free, able bodied adults between the ages of 19 and 64) on Medicaid who will soon have to complete work requirements (at least 80 hours per month of work, volunteering, education, or training) in order to access health care, thanks to Trump’s disastrous, Medicaid-slashing megabill.

pandr32

(13,908 posts)
15. Thank you for this.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 09:19 PM
Jul 2025

One "may need to prove...exemption status regularly" sounds like it could be a problem.

valleyrogue

(2,630 posts)
16. Anybody under 65 who is single, no dependent kids, and no disabilities, that's who.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 10:53 PM
Jul 2025

This nonsense is a backdoor way to gut ACA, which had allowed people previously denied Medicaid coverage.

Red Mountain

(2,282 posts)
2. How do the crops get to them to be picked?
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 03:45 PM
Jul 2025

Brooke can't possibly mean they have to drive out to the country?

I mean, that would be stupid. Logistically impossible.

What farmer would want to rely on that work force?

Anybody ask them?

Would they be required to make make their fields and facilities ADA compliant?

Only seems fair, I suppose.

Diamond_Dog

(40,060 posts)
3. That concept is so egregiously stupid
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 04:04 PM
Jul 2025

They must just be pandering to the cult. Like the above poster said, what farmer will hire a completely inexperienced person or crew of people to pick crops for 12 hours a day. The migrants who come here to do farm work, work hard and know what they’re doing. I don’t know how any farmer supports this orange disaster.

orangecrush

(29,295 posts)
10. The man has no decorum
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 04:40 PM
Jul 2025


Or shame.

It inflates his ego to see his ridiculous bullshit bowed to by our institutions.

Irish_Dem

(80,392 posts)
9. GOP wants only working Americans to get healthcare.
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 04:30 PM
Jul 2025

If you cannot work, you should die.

msongs

(73,220 posts)
7. oh sure, all those white christian republicans on medicaid will rush to sign up for crop picking asap nt
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 04:16 PM
Jul 2025

SheltieLover

(78,139 posts)
11. Reminds me of the scene from Happy Gilmore wherein Happy's grandma is being forced to work in the nursing home
Wed Jul 9, 2025, 05:10 PM
Jul 2025
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