Medicaid not just for 'lazy welfare people': GOP lawmaker

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Source: Raw Story

February 25, 2025 9:09AM ET


House Republicans' plan to take an ax to Medicaid appears to be in real trouble as several Republicans from swing districts are voicing fear that it could harm their own constituents.

One such Republican is Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ), who made his case for not cutting Medicaid on the grounds that such cuts won't just hurt "lazy" people.

“Don’t touch seniors’ Medicare, and don’t cut Medicaid, because it isn’t just for lazy welfare people. It’s for real people,” Van Drew told the Washington Post this week. “That’s the new Republican Party, a populist party, a party of working people, a party of blue-collar people.”

Medicaid provides health insurance to more than 70 million Americans and polls have shown that cutting it would be politically perilous for the GOP, particularly if the money saved from the cuts is used to fund more tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the top one percent of earners.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/gop-medicaid-2671215550/

[Ocelot II]

1. That dog whistle is more like a siren.

"Lazy welfare people" is another word for CRT or DEI, or really that other word, which is what he really means but dares not say in public.

[durablend]

2. "That's the new Republican Party, a populist party, a party of working people, a party of blue-collar people."

SNORT.

Thanks for the laugh.

[SunSeeker]

3. Medicaid is what pays for grandma's nursing home. Where will grandma go?

As of July 2024, Medicaid was the primary payer for 63% of nursing home residents, according to KFF. Medicaid is the largest public payer of long-term care services. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/a-look-at-nursing-facility-characteristics/#:~:text=The%20share%20of%20residents%20by,private%20equity%20ownership%20in%202022.

[Strelnikov_]

6. Yep 80% to 48%

https://www.kff.org/infographic/medicaids-role-in-nursing-home-care/

DC 80%
Alaska 79%
West Virginny 76%
Mississippi 75%
Louisiana 74%
Georgia 73%

..
Kentucky 67%
Alabama 67%
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Arkansas 66%
Oklahoma 65%
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North Dakota 51%
Iowa 48%

[SunSeeker]

8. I don't think low info voters understand Medicaid pays for nursing homes. Fucking idiots.

The same idiots who thought Trump will bring down the price of eggs.

[BlueKota]

10. My sister was head of finance for a not for

profit nursing home for many years. She retired last year. She's been asking where do Republicans think the sick and elderly people are going to go? Nursing Homes rely on Medicaid reimbursement to
keep operating. The nurses, and other support staff aren't going to work for free.

Some of the cult think their cost of living is high now. What happens when they have to start taking in and taking care of elderly family members along with themselves and their kids?

They have not even the slightest inkling of how cause and effect works.😥😡 The ones who voted Maga deserve the awful consequences, but the rest of the people don't.

[CountAllVotes]

13. Grandma ends up in your driveway

That was the plan for Mr. CAV before he died in 2022.

When they realized he had no assets in his name, that changed.

They put in a 24/7 Hospice plan the last week he was alive. That cost me $500/day.

They were trying to find a nursing home for him to go to but they could not find one.

Then he fell and broke his hip, they operated on the 100 lb. man that was left of him stupidly (GREED) and that was the end of him.

Medicaid never came into the picture and the VA did nothing for him at all.

Had I not been there with the $500/day I don't know what would have happened at the end.

[SunSeeker]

14. We need to revive this ad:

[Karasu]

4. Just conveniently ignoring the fact that their entire fucking party has spent DECADES saying precisely that.

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5. Man, they are really trying hard to rebrand themselves out from under trump!

A populist party, a party of working people... yeah, right. But one against worker safety rights and worker's labor rights. And I detest ANY of these idiots naming ANY other person than one just like themselves as "lazy." Most people eligible for Medicaid are bringing home small paychecks from multiple jobs, or are elderly enough that working is a ridiculous idea.

While we're all about this cost-cutting... how about cutting all the medical perks these representatives get! Seems since trumps first time in office, they killed a lot of what feds provided for civil servants instead of keeping up with salaries. Should these Representatives start cutting into their own largesse, for the good of the country... and their personal, living god. When is musk going to start firing do nothing representatives? Ask them to give 5 bullet points of what they did last week that actually helped the American people, and let us see what they write! Have AI grade THEM.

[Marthe48]

7. I have 2 nephews

One is autistic. One was brain damaged at birth, a forcep delivery. They are adults in their 30s. The autisitc nephew has lived in a group home and worked in a sheltered workshop since both of his parents passed away in 2011 and 2012. He has a sister who is married with children. She made the decision to let him stay with the sheltered workshop and get a room in the group housing, which is with other guys he works with and a staff member who also works at the sheltered workshop. He is also near relatives who love him and visit him often. My nephew gets SSI and Medicaid for his needs. He gets a small stipend for the work he does at the shetered workshop.
My brain-damaged nephew hasn't had such a straight-forward life. My brother and his wife adopted him, knowing he would have special needs. My brother and his wife divorced and neither were deemed capable of caring for my nephew's needs. My brother was a long haul truck driver at the time. His wife was not a good person. My nephew's grandmother fought for and got custody of him, until she passed away a few years ago. My brother was involved in an accident and he died in 2002. When my nephew's grandmother died, my ex s-i-l regained custody (or custodial care) of him and he's lived with her since. My nephew has gotten SSI since he was born, because the damage at birth caused irrepable harm. I can easily imagine that if he were not getting SSI, his adoptive mother wouldn't have tried so hard to get custody.
Anyway, stories of 2 living people who get SSI because of their needs and circumstances. I knew other people who got SSI and Medicaid, but they have passed away.

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9. "I don't think low info voters understand Medicaid pays for nursing homes."

Children in foster care are eligible for Medicaid.

Children subject to abuse or neglect placed in a relative’s home are eligible for Medicaid.

Republicans are either ignorant or just don’t care about harming children.

[Rebl2]

11. My parents

we’re on Medicaid the last few years of their lives in a nursing home. I would guess there are many seniors in their 80’s and 90’s on Medicaid in nursing homes that would be hurt by cuts to Medicaid and Medicare.
In the beginning they paid full price for the nursing home, but that money ran out and they went on Medicaid. They were lucky there was a room available for them so we didn’t have to move them to another nursing home.

[mpcamb]

12. Hey! YOU get gramma's fulltime care, compliments of Elon, Donnie and the

empty-headed repub representative you put in office!