House Speaker Mike Johnson claimed adding a Medicaid work requirement to the Republican spending bill has a "moral component."
  • doingthestuff@lemy.lolEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Is it moral to deny Medicaid to people who earned $5 too much? Because that’s what we’ve been doing forever. The benefit cliff intencentivises people to stay in poverty.

    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.oneEnglish
      1·
      15 days ago

      It seems like social programs are just poverty treadmills to keep a certain class of people in a quasi underclass system to be abused.