Anonymous #1 8w

Let me try to address this politely with two concerns: 1. There is a work requirement, but there is also a ~$1T cut in federal funding which will ultimately cause states to cut people or services out of their Medicaid offerings. 2. The fraction of Medicaid enrollees that are legitimately sitting around doing nothing is not as large as you think. What’s most likely to come from the work requirement is that people who care for their elderly/sick relatives will have to work more and it’ll be in the

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Anonymous OP 8w

hands of the federal government to decide what is “disabled” or not. Which will almost certainly lead to genuinely disabled people losing their coverage (people who might really need it) and having to go through loads of paperwork regardless.

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Anonymous OP 8w

Do you have any numbers for the amount of people looking after elderly/sick relatives who are going to be taken off healthcare

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Anonymous #1 8w

According to the analysis done here: https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/understanding-the-intersection-of-medicaid-and-work-an-update/ about 12% of people claimed they were “not working due to caregiving.” Which, in all fairness, is not specifically “elderly/sick relatives,” and there is an exemption for caregivers of disabled children. Only 8% responded saying they were not working due to “retirement, inability to find a job, or another reason.” These “retired” people are also

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statistically likely to be women (~80%) who left the workforce to care for a relative, according to this analysis https://www.milbank.org/quarterly/opinions/whos-affected-by-medicaid-work-requirements-its-not-who-you-think/

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