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The state of Georgia is preparing to offer a limited number of lower-income people Medicaid coverage in exchange for 80 hours of work or volunteering a month.
The Biden administration surprisingly decided not to appeal a federal court ruling that granted Georgia the right to try the work-for-Medicaid program — a program first approved during the Trump administration for 12 states but later canceled by Biden.
The program will actually cost significantly more than standard Medicaid coverage and the program’s strict requirements won’t cover a lot of Georgians. But Kemp believes it’s worth doing.
“The best-case scenario is that some uninsured Georgians would get coverage for some amount of time,’’ Laura Colbert, executive director of the consumer advocacy group Georgians for a Healthy Future, told the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. “It’s going to be a big headache for the state and for people who enroll or try to enroll.”
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Am I the only one who sees the delicious creamy, nutty irony in this?
80 hours a month huh? Never know how expensive something is until it’s free…
FJB
“The program will actually cost significantly more than standard Medicaid coverage and the program’s strict requirements won’t cover a lot of Georgians. But Kemp believes it’s worth doing.”
Why? What’s the upside?
Sorry, sounds like more useless, wasteful, bureaucratic bullshit.
mortem tyrannis
izlamo delenda est …
Let’s see. Out of work, coastal Georgians can clean-up frog poop. And Butterers, inland Georgians can hand-pick those Peanuts, thus saving the environment from internal combustion engines. Yeah, I see a lot of creamy goodness here.
And the best part . . .
The Work Crew Over Watchers
Will be the Millenials
With their Smart Phones
Working at the Car Wash
It’s long been said that the most expensive thing on the planet is Free Shit!
Maybe this is filling the Gap… the Stacy Abrams Gap!
Medicaid was intended for illegals, anyway.
First define work! The term work covers a lot of functions such as those Asshats in Congress publicly declaring how hard they ‘WORK!
Sure, I could collect or even count ballots. Will that work?
Fill half a warehouse with cinder blocks. Every day the welfare bums go in and move the blocks from one side of the warehouse to the other. Make them feel as useless as they really are, plus you’re not taking away work from an honest citizen.