Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements
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#2The original title is:
> Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn’t Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements
Re: Admin: Terminally Ill Patients Aren't Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements
#3The Cruelty Is the Point.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...
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#4This just sounds cartoonishly evil
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#6Evil. Just evil. Terminally ill patients can't work, they're on deaths door. If they don't get treatment, they are dead. Let's let the medical decisions be handled by doctors and not some politician.
Honestly things like this show me the President has to much power. There should be government agencies where no political party can touch it without significant oversight and approval from both the president and both houses of congress.
Medicare, Medicaid, FBI, FCC, FAA, The Fed, and more all should be outside admin control of the president and any single party or group of individuals. Only when you have a 2/3s majority of both the houses and the president should you be able to make such broad sweeping policy changes.
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> Are we supposed to accept the idea that an IV drug user sharing needles contracts HIV and they never have to work again even though they'll be getting medication which completely suppresses the virus and will leave a largely normal lifespan?
Is that the price of the “right” people being exempted? Then sure.
Also simply having HIV doesn’t mean you’re terminally ill.
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> Are we supposed to accept the idea that an IV drug user sharing needles contracts HIV and they never have to work again even though they'll be getting medication which completely suppresses the virus and will leave a largely normal lifespan? Is that the price of the “right” people being exempted? Then sure. Also simply having HIV doesn’t mean you’re terminally ill.
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#10People have always suffered under the banality of indifferent evils. A blanket policy is bad policy and that dovetails into Trump's laziness/stupidity.
Putting that aside, is the estimated terminal deadline a good measure for subsidy qualification...ie I'm dead in 5 years from my conditions, so when should I be exempt from the work requirement?