The Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA) reports that Medicaid enrollment has increased by 60% since 2012, with a significant portion of this growth driven by able-bodied adults, including those earning 138% above the poverty line. This expansion has led to concerns about the program’s sustainability and whether resources are being diverted from the most vulnerable populations.
Most of the able-bodied, including those above the poverty line, don’t work. That shouldn’t surprise anyone. If they work, they will be above the poverty line and won’t collect. They’re incentivized not to work. The system needs fixing.
While 41 states, including the District of Columbia, have adopted Medicaid expansion, 19 states have not.
Medicaid is in danger of collapse.
How is it that since 2012, there has been a 60% increase in Medicaid enrollment, yet the general population has only increased 6%?@RepBrecheen – “We have an explosion of people on Medicaid… that are able-bodied individuals…”
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There’s lots of people on psychiatric drugs who are happy being high and not working. Young males are especially targeted pre-adolescence. They end up not contributing to society. There are also people who have gone on social security very early. We are told that the US needs to import technical people for our economy. The result is America male engineers… Read more »
The Bums ought to be made to work. Welfare systems are fine for the disabled. Fine to get back on one’s feet. They were not designed to be a lifestyle for the lazy.
In the greater Chicago area there has to be 200,000+ young males doing nothing. They could be painting our houses, fixing our roofs, shoveling our snow, cutting our grass. Instead, we pay them to sit around, and we pay illegals to do the work.
No surprise here. Fraud, waste and abuse is rampant. Now let’s do something about it.
The ‘living in mom’s basement’ crowd and illegals.
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