Am disabled. About 50% of the people in my group home could go back to work but there is zero infrastructure to enable that months long process and there are no jobs in the small town I live in.
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So they can't go back to work.
jul 1, 2025, 2:00 pm • 2 0 • view
Well, they wouldn't be able to work if they lose insurance to cover their psych meds. They can work while stable. This bill will result in hundreds of thousands going homeless and hungry and crime will rise as people steal to eat.
jul 1, 2025, 2:02 pm • 4 0 • view
They can't work without assistance to get them TO jobs, and if Medicaid is nuked/dismantled/aborted then they won't have the needed medicines and in-home care. They need more help, not less. We are agreeing in different ways.
jul 1, 2025, 2:21 pm • 3 0 • view
They need assistance to continue medicine and to find a place to live. There are people who could go back to work but they need a safety net during this transfer period, not to be cut off with a good luck middle finger.
jul 1, 2025, 2:23 pm • 0 0 • view
Oh I'm sure the Republicans will get on that "safety net during the transfer period"...
jul 1, 2025, 2:31 pm • 1 0 • view
And if you got jobs, what are the chances they would provide that fabulous health insurance the GOP thinks is available to everyone who works a minimum-wage job?
jul 1, 2025, 1:57 pm • 85 1 • view
Are there jobs which provide health insurance? Offering a very expensive plan which covers basically nothing is no benefit. Where I work the company has a health "insurance" plan which almost no one chooses to buy because it's extremely expensive and covers basically nothing.
jul 1, 2025, 2:01 pm • 3 0 • view
Most jobs offer insurance but it takes weeks or months to find a job. These people need their psych meds and won't be able to work without them. There needs to be a transfer plan, not a cut off plan.
jul 1, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
The concern is finding a place to live after they find a job. The job and home market isn't so good, the local Facebook page constantly complains about this. So that means the people in the group home would be instantly homeless and shoplifting to eat would rise.
jul 1, 2025, 1:59 pm • 27 2 • view
Most minimum wage jobs offer health insurance. Even McDonald’s health insurance isn’t too bad relatively speaking. I would think the cost of living though is what would crush them.
jul 1, 2025, 2:04 pm • 2 0 • view
Yes, cost of living and our prescriptions go into the thousands.
jul 1, 2025, 2:05 pm • 2 0 • view
Yeah it really sucks. There has to be a better way.
jul 1, 2025, 2:06 pm • 1 0 • view
It's going to blow up in Republicans faces. I thought the cuts would be instant but it's not for a couple of years so they can lie and blame it on democrats. It should be illegal to lie about politics.
jul 1, 2025, 2:08 pm • 3 0 • view
I don't know, I had a friend who could never leave her insurance-providing job at our newspaper because her husband, a decently paid and experienced welder, was given no insurance by his employer. You never know who's going to provide insurance ... the problem of tying insurance to work.
jul 1, 2025, 2:55 pm • 2 0 • view
I don’t think I said anything that contradicts your point. I agree with it. I’m going to guess that he’s a contract employee as opposed to an actual employee because by law after a certain amount of employees they have to. But it could be what they offer is awful.
jul 1, 2025, 4:05 pm • 0 0 • view
Trimp can put you to work in the coal mines. I mean cmon! (I’m joking by the way) it’s bullshit what they are attempting to do
jul 1, 2025, 2:04 pm • 3 0 • view
I guarantee you petty crimes will skyrocket because of this.
jul 1, 2025, 2:06 pm • 5 0 • view