To justify Medicaid cuts, House Speaker Mike Johnson says the healthcare program leads to "able-bodied young men" playing videogames instead of working.
  • WraithGear@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    He knows this is false. It’s bait, that even i see this time. There really is nothing to see here

    • Botzo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Only when you’re so poor (earn less than 15k/yr out 21k a year in some states) not having it functionally costs more money, but only so long as you follow all the bureaucratic rules to continually prove eligibility.

      And don’t forget, you still have to find healthcare providers that accept Medicaid, pay copays, etc.

      • scathliath@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 months ago

        In some states they don’t even have that. I’ve been seeking disability for six years in America for a partially broken back, with ten years of documented ongoing treatment at this point from childhood and my parent’s medical coverage (I can walk, but I’m stooped most of the time and get to live with chronic pain, yippee) and because I couldn’t get by on nothing, and got a part time gig that didn’t cross the threshold I still got my benefits denied. So like, in all technicality, though I see myself as an able-bodied young man and pursue an active lifestyle to make sure my weight doesn’t cause my spine to degrade and leave me fully paralyzed, I’m not even who this guy’s talking about, and I can’t get benefits through the current system. Now I’m just uninsured and planning to immigrate for education (and healthcare).

  • Thrillhouse@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    People are checking out because the middle class is non-existent. It doesn’t matter how hard you work - the the prospect of getting ahead, owning a home, retirement is out of reach for the vast majority of people.

    People can work hard and stress themselves out or they can check out of the system and achieve largely the same result.

    This is about the failures of late stage capitalism. To claim the issue is free healthcare is gaslighting.

      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
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        3 months ago

        Didn’t you know sex is bad? It’s absolutely reprehensible and the only allowable exception is for the purposes of procreation, where you are allowed only to use the missionary position and your lawfully wedded wife is to be completely obscured by a blanket covering her entire body apart from a small hole in her crotch area. You can not look down or touch her body with your hands at any point, you should be reciting prayer the entire time and preferably keep one hand on the Bible during the whole process.

        All other ways to engage with sexual acts and sexuality are unnatural, ungodly and frankly disgusting.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Just a normal US politician. They lost all connection to reality ages ago. Take his ID papers away and let him survive on minimum wage jobs somewhere where nobody knows his sorry face.

    • Buelldozer@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Get elected to the US Congress. They don’t do anything and get 6 figure salaries AND free Healthcare!

    • whotookkarl@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Become a congressperson, they get Medicare for life just like every other citizen should have but don’t because Congress will grant it to themselves but not everyone else. If it’s good enough for them it should be good enough to cover us.

  • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Hey look, an “elite” with absolutely no concept of how actual reality works, who’s just trying to stir up a base consisting of people with IQs smaller than their shoe size.

    I promise you, if I could stay home all day and play video games by somehow using free healthcare, I’d be doing it.

    • Jarix@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Dunno if it is satire, i honestly am struggling to tell these days, but there’s a post that says this fucker routinely plays surgeon simulator while attending meetings…on twitch

  • Jaysyn@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    This is rich coming from someone that has literally never worked a days labor in their lives.

    Young men as a cohort have a 90% employment rate.