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They did not vote against that, they voted against the way they were claiming the were going to pay for it.
What is that a response to? Medicaid so far is still being honored and is a type of welfare, just as SNAP is. illegals are now using slightly more than half of both benefits, depleting the benefits for those who are legally enrolled.
Sorry, I left this out:
Yep, Medicare is insurance for which we have paid premiums all our working lives; Medicaid is welfare for the poorest among us. Putting them under the same umbrella at the Federal level confuses things too, as the states administer Medicaid using mostly Federal funding, while the state have little to do with Medicare. which comes directly from the Federal Government. Medicaid generally pays providers more than Medicare does and there are no copays, as exist with Medicare.
Very true. But do you know what really irritates me about it? FICA deductions are mandatory (and automatic) but you have to jump through a ton of hoops to qualify for benefits. And anytime the government wants to they can say you don't qualify anymore and cut you off. And if that is all you have, then you have nothing. And people say "Oh well, maybe you didn't qualify in the first place." Yet if insurance companies tried to do business like that, people would scream bloody murder.
I don't know @Axel Slingerland. I have never known anyone over 65 who had benefits, then was cut off. If you have/had Federal representation that cared at all about you, you could petition them for redress. If you are speaking of your son, perhaps you could consult an attorney or again, it doesn't hurt to ask your representatives to represent you.
It wasn't my son. But I have known people who got kicked off that were previously qualified and approved, but were cut off and had to do the robot dance to get their benefits back. Having a lawyer helps them more that it does you. But sometimes "Ya gotta do what ya gotta do."
It is good to have a social safety net, but when one exists at the government level, there will always be corruption within it.
Try harshly, unrealistic.
That's good news.
John doesn't look like a typical politician, and more importantly, he doesn't act like one.
Once all of the illegals who are living and being supported financially here in the United States have been moved back to wherever they came from, there will be a whole lot fewer people on all of these programs. The graph (which is online if you look) shows that the number of illegals almost tripled after Biden took office and started bringing in people as “refugees” from all over, and the others came across the border.
I have met young women in the ER who made the claim that they were trying to become pregnant to claim Medicaid and SNAP. Those who claim that doesn't happen are ill informed.I was exaggerating above @Yvonne Smith - probably because all of those stupid TikTok videos from entitled abusers got under my skin.
There is nothing fake about them though. Even when I was in high school in the start of the 1970s it was not uncommon to overhear girls approaching graduation bantering about strategies to start pumping out babies to maximize welfare payments. Forced busing really opened our eyes to subcultures we'd never known in the North.
Dunno, maybe a Party boy?
