Under a new policy the administration is defending in court, low-income people with cancer, HIV, Parkinson's, and other life-threatening illnesses must prove they're too sick to work or risk losing their health insurance.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/50111363

A federal judge on Thursday denied a request by more than two dozen Democratic states to halt a Trump administration policy announced last month that would require Medicaid recipients with terminal diseases to prove they are too sick to work in order to be exempt from new work requirements that go into effect this coming January.

While introducing over $1 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthiest 1% of Americans, last year’s massive GOP tax and budget bill also imposed new 80-hour-per-month work requirements that states must implement for Medicaid expansion recipients, who receive government-subsidized insurance coverage at or below 138% of the poverty line.

The law specified that those who are “medically frail or otherwise have special medical needs” are excluded from the work requirement, and specifically listed people with a “serious or complex medical condition.” But it remained unclear what exact conditions met these criteria.

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) introduced a new rule stating that even if a person receives a terminal diagnosis for a disease like cancer, HIV/AIDS, or Parkinson’s, that is still not enough for them to be exempt from the work requirements.

Beginning on January 1, 2028, it says they must also demonstrate to states that their condition “significantly impairs” their ability to meet the work requirement.

  • _chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    We should make these Nazi pedophiles all terminally ill and see how they feel about it.

    In fact, skip the ly-ill part.

    • Hideakikarate@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      You’ve already seen the gymnastics they go through when they need an abortion, either for themselves or their mistresses. They’d find some way to justify it.

      • QueenHawlSera@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        The only moral abortion is my abortion after all…

        Hell we’ve seen from the rise of trans conservatives like Caitlyn Jenner, that the only moral transition is their transition.

  • WatDabney@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    2 days ago

    There is not and never has been any expectation that people will actually meet the work requirement.

    The expectation from the very beginning, and in fact the exact point, is that people will fail to meet it, and therefore be denied, and therefore die.

    The goal is to establish a society in which those who cannot or will not serve to enrich the oligarchs will be systematically culled.