Should we cut Medicaid?

It’s all just a bleeding-heart handout to the poors who don’t know the difference between “yea” and “yay,” who cling to a sense of the proliferation of the latter locution by “influencers” (and their confederates among the hoi polloi) as ego-preserving justification for their ignorance.

Oh, wait. You didn’t want a reasoned discussion about policy, personal responsibility, and whether and how the community might feel some kind of kinship to the downtrodden, did you? I mean, you posted it here and you appear to be less than stellar in your morality and intellect, so perhaps I unfairly jumped the gun.

We need to start thinking if these people should be euthanized. It seems cutting their medical assistance is a bit inhumane.

47.4% of Medicaid and CHIP recipients are children you absolute pieces of human garbage.

The states can take care of kids. The federal dollars for adult leeches should be cancelled unless they meet a minimum work criteria.

So who is Medicaid spending 175b for nursing home care on? I sure thought it was the elderly…..

Maybe they need to move to Europe if they're depending on government to survive. This is America.

Shouldn't they be eligible for Obama care? Private health insurance is prohibitively expensive

Hey man. Maybe those “pieces of garbage” were just kindly figuring that if you take away benefits from adults who didn’t do the right thing in the first place when the child was conceived, ostracize them, and double down by calling them names publicly, those troubled souls would just straighten up and fly right and provide a better life for those kids.

Use your head. You’re talking to people who are street-smart, hard-headed pragmatists, not Ivory Tower Liberals with their pie-in-the sky ideals. They know those kids will be just fine as long as idiots like you finally come around to pulling the right lever in the booth each November. They know facts, and you follow your wimpy feelings.

And you better believe those Patriots have an outstanding answer for how they cast this as a situation where Medicare is for seniors but Medicaid is for goldbrickers (including, I’d have to imagine, the nearly 8 million Americans over 65 who are on Medicaid as well as developmentally disabled adults (remember that we’re pro-Life right up until the baby is born), those disabled in workplace accidents whose other compensation has not covered all expenses, an military vets under similar circumstances (I mean, PTSD, pfffft. Show us an effin wound).

So? Why should we subsidize unproductive and unintelligent members of society - women on welfare - to have kids? Give subsidies to more intelligent parents instead. The world would be a better place if Elon Musk or even just normal, upper-middle class families had 13 kids and women on welfare had one or none.

Easy answer. You never saw the videos of all the guys who swore fealty to the Somali warlords riding around in Jeeps toting Kalshnikovs in the 90s?

An armed society is a polite society.

But maybe you want some drag queen at story hour instead.

Amazing how many people on here with such string opinions don't know the difference between Medicare and medicaid.

Likely an either-or fallacy, in spite of the reality of finite resources. Not every optimizati9n problem is a zero-sum game or something similar (in fact, very few are).

You a eugenics fan, too? Love you some Margaret Sanger? You been pushing at the state legislatures on that score? Crowdfunding for Planned Parenthood and hounding that org to move away from its general healthcare priorities and more toward the “get us some zygotes with a greater promise of productivity” tack?

Just cut both and there won't be any difference between the two. Hopefully Elon gets to do that next.

Cool. You took Step one in your noble intervention. Step two? Instruct.

About 17% of the elderly receive both Medicare and Medicaid benefits.

Social Security benefits have not kept up with inflation, and even if workers thought they had saved enough extra, the rising costs of basic health care and everything else make it difficult to survive for many older people.

Medicare is not free health care, and it does not cover all aspects of health care.

The best thing about cutting off medicaid is that there would be no negative repercussions.

The Medicaid people would just go out and get good jobs with excellent health benefits and we will all live happily ever after.

Of course they wouldn't. That's why they need to be deported.

We should reverse many of the Biden and Obama era Medicaid expansions and reduce the subsidies for Obamacare to match the taxation expansions enacted to fund them. The combined programs were not designed with adequate funding mechanisms and should be adjusted accordingly. Even if you exclude the COVID expansion and subsequent rollback, Biden and Obama added 33.8 million Americans to Medicaid (a 71.6% expansion during which time the population only increased 11%). Annual Medicaid costs rose $472 billion between 2008 and 2022 (from $352 billion to $824 billion, a 134% increase). Obamacare subsidies add another $125 billion a year. So you have these two expensive programs costing about $600 billion extra per year over the 2008 baseline with maybe enough revenue from the enacted taxes to cover the subsidies, but nothing to cover the Medicaid expansion. Federal revenue is not the problem. Expenditures are the problem.

I’m not on Medicaid so shouldn’t have to pay for it. Only those using Medicaid should pay for it. Same with food stamps and welfare