The Minister of Finance of Donald Trump, Scott Bessent, is a hedge fund manager who has no idea what it is like to be without and cannot afford health insurance.
At the state of the Union of CNN, Dana Bash said to Bessent: “The president promised that there would be no changes in Medicaid -and the application of a work requirement is by definition a change in the benefits.”
Bessent argued that the people who will lose their Medicaid should get a job, “No, there are no change in benefits. There is a change in requirements to get the benefits. And what we do, we bring the production jobs back. We bring jobs back in the working class.
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There are some problems with the suggestion of Bessent. Thirty percent of American jobs do not offer health insurance. Sixty percent of people who have health insurance through their employer report that struggles to pay medical accounts, so the idea that employers offer good health insurance is more myth than reality.
The Trump and Republicans government push the lie that most people can work on Medicaid. 56% of Medicaid recipients are children, people with disabilities and the elderly.
Ninety From adults under the age of 65 and non -disabled people who receive Medicaid, worked full or part -time.
People on Medicaid generally fall into four groups: children, people with disabilities, seniors or the working poor.
Because Republicans remove Medicaid from tens of millions of Americans, the reality is that people who do not fit the Republican story to be “valid and lazy” are losing their health insurance.
The Trump administration lies about who is on Medicaid. These are not people who can get a job. Many of them work on jobs that do not offer health insurance.
A rich man tells people who have an economic trouble working harder to get health care that may not be affordable or available to them, regardless of how many jobs they work.
The cutbacks on Trump Medicaid are built on a fundamental lie that will harm people or even kill by preventing them from getting life -saving care.
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