MAGAt Moses Mike Johnson: "Every single American" should be "applauding" GOP-imposed Medicaid work requirements

[Miles Archer]

WASHINGTON — Republicans have a strategy for moving Medicaid cuts through Congress when many of their own members say they can’t support cuts: Don’t call them cuts.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) said Tuesday that nobody will miss the hundreds of billions of dollars Republicans want to chop from the program, which covers health care costs for more than 70 million Americans.

“We’re not gutting Medicaid. We’re going to reduce fraud, waste and abuse, which every single American should be applauding,” Johnson said.

The meaning of “fraud, waste and abuse” in this context includes regular Medicaid benefits for unemployed adults without children or disabilities, who have received coverage in most states thanks to the health care reform signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2010. The money spent covering their health costs, in Republicans’ view, is a waste.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medicaid-work-requirement-republican-bill_n_6811214fe4b0d4c3d8e31c0a

[bullimiami]

1. Some people aren't greedy fucking holier than thou assholes.

I for one don’t begrudge helping others have a better life.

[Miles Archer]

2. The biggest insult is that it's all in the name of tax cuts for millionaires

Just like Musk's shenanigans, it's not about "fraud" or "waste."

It's about distributing more wealth from the working class to the investor class.

And we're supposed to be too stupid to see that.

[rickyhall]

3. Coming from people who never worked in their llives.

[Basso8vb]

4. Avoid light poles, Mikey.

[orangecrush]

5. Waste of oxygen

[Grins]

6. "...hundreds of BILLIONS" in fraud, and yet he can't point to any of it.

Why do they lie so much? Can’t help themselves? Their DNA? Practice…?

[Midnight Writer]

7. This is exactly the point Democrats should be making.

Every time a Republican starts with the "fraud, waste and abuse" mantra any Democrat in earshot should challenge them to produce one example, give one name, point to a single prosecution resulting from all this "fraud, waste and abuse".

They've been spinning this bullshit since Reagan (another conman) was in office.

[Miles Archer]

8. I saw an article TWO WEEKS AGO that said Musk would hit FIFTEEN PERCENT of his "savings boast" at BEST

Most likely LOWER than fifteen percent.

He's hobbled agencies that have regulatory authority over his businesses, and screwed a few competitors.

His "OTHER" accomplishments?

Can't name any. The "fraud and waste" thing was a scam from day 1.