{"id":179438,"date":"2018-02-08T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/08\/the-bottom-line-is-that-these-are-evil-hateful-ratfs\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T22:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T03:04:00","slug":"the-bottom-line-is-that-these-are-evil-hateful-ratfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/02\/08\/the-bottom-line-is-that-these-are-evil-hateful-ratfs\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bottom Line Is That These Are Evil Hateful Ratf%$#S"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Because hurting the chronically ill and infirm sexually arouses them, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/politics-government\/article198549039.html\">the Trump administration is looking to add lifetime limits to Medicaid<\/a>.<\/div>\n<p>This is in addition their proposal to add a work requirement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">After allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid enrollees, the Trump administration is now pondering lifetime limits on adults\u2019 access to coverage. <\/p>\n<p>Capping health care benefits \u2014 like federal welfare benefits \u2014 would be a first for Medicaid, the joint state-and-federal health plan for low-income and disabled Americans. <\/p>\n<p>If approved, the dramatic policy change would recast government-subsidized health coverage as temporary assistance by placing a limit on the number of months adults have access to Medicaid benefits. <\/p>\n<p>The move would continue the Trump administration\u2019s push to inject conservative policies into the Medicaid program through the use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/blog\/fixgov\/2017\/03\/28\/will-trump-turn-to-states-to-revise-aca\/?utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=gs\">federal waivers<\/a>, which allow states more flexibility to create policies designed to promote personal and financial responsibility among enrollees. <\/p>\n<p>However, advocates say capping Medicaid benefits would amount to a massive breach of the nation\u2019s social safety net designed to protect children, the elderly and the impoverished. <\/p>\n<p>In January, the Trump administration approved waiver requests from Kentucky and Indiana to terminate Medicaid coverage for able-bodied enrollees who do not meet new program work requirements. Ten other states have asked to do the same.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These folks really should have drowned at birth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because hurting the chronically ill and infirm sexually arouses them, the Trump administration is looking to add lifetime limits to Medicaid. This is in addition their proposal to add a work requirement: After allowing states to impose work requirements for Medicaid enrollees, the Trump administration is now pondering lifetime limits on adults\u2019 access to coverage. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,364,374,460,454],"class_list":["post-179438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-evil","tag-politics","tag-public-health","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179438"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}