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Should people be required to work in order to receive Medicaid?

In January 2018, the Trump administration announced that it would allow U.S. states to require able-bodied adults to work in order to be eligible for Medicaid. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for low-income Americans. Each state determines its own requirements for Medicaid eligibility. In most states children from low-income households, pregnant women and low-income seniors are covered. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, like nursing home care and personal care services. The Trump administration said Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin had requested approval to test programs including job training, job search, education, volunteer activities and caregiving.

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 @Tmoore0412answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, but only for those who are deemed able to work

 @5643HNNanswered…4yrs4Y

No, especially if we move to a single-player or hybrid system (ex, Australia), coverage would be guaranteed to all citizens, regardless of employment

 @8WCV5PP from New York  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, however, if they are unable to because of age, sickness, disability, etc they should be exempt from doing so

 @86NBM3N from New York  answered…4yrs4Y

No, but if you are able to work you should receive assistance in finding a job.

 @8H2MBMFanswered…5yrs5Y

unless you are disabled. everyone should work in order to have health care

 @8JP8Y7P from New Jersey  answered…5yrs5Y

Yes, unless they have a disability.

 @8PCT6VB from Wisconsin  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes but only if they are able, if they are disabled they should not have too.

 @8PCYPDW from Nevada  answered…4yrs4Y

No because with this pandemic it is hard to get a job.

 @8S5HL49 from Maine  answered…4yrs4Y

Yes, a social service in their community and if they are under the age of 65, and are able to work, ie they have no disabilities.

 @8XTW3QC from Washington D.C.  answered…3yrs3Y

Yes, But those who are disabled should not be disqualified because of there inability to work

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…6mos6MO

L.A. Times Owner Declines To Endorse Harris Over Stance On Gaza War

As the nation counted down this fall to a bitterly polarized election, the editorial board of The Los Angeles Times drew up a detailed outline for an endorsement that seemed obvious for an institution that had leaned liberal for generations: Vice President Kamala Harris should be the next president of the United States.For days, readers in overwhelmingly liberal Southern California speculated angrily about a decision that was widely regarded as a favor to Mr. Trump and a vote of no confidence in Ms. Harris.Thousands of readers canceled subscriptions. Three members of the editorial board resigned. Nearly 200 staff members signed an open letter to management demanding an explanation, complaining that the decision this close to the election had undermined the news organization’s trust with readers. The Times’s News Guild, the newsroom’s union, lodged a protest. In social media posts and subsequent interviews with his own news organization, Dr. Soon-Shiong framed the choice as an attempt at neutrality.But in a statement on Saturday that was swiftly challenged by the paper, his daughter, Nika Soon-Shiong, 31, a progressive political activist who has frequently been accused of trying to meddle in the paper’s news coverage, said the decision was motivated by Ms. Harris’s continued support for Israel in its war in Gaza.“Our family made the joint decision not to endorse a Presidential candidate. This was the first and only time I have been involved in the process,” Ms. Soon-Shiong, who has no formal role at the paper, said in a statement to The New York Times. “As a citizen of a country openly financing genocide, and as a family that experienced South African Apartheid, the endorsement was an opportunity to repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children.”The editor of editorials, who was among those who have resigned, said she was taken aback by the daughter’s assertion. “If that was the reason that Dr. Soon-Shiong blocked an endorsement of Kamala Harris, it was not communicated to me or the editorial writers,” Mariel Garza, who resigned on Tuesday, said in a statement. “If the family’s goal was to ‘repudiate justifications for the widespread targeting of journalists and ongoing war on children,’ remaining silent did not accomplish that.”

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