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[–] 3 points 3 months ago

does my severely mentally handicapped son also need to work to cover his seizure prescription?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Not shocking at all. The system has been fucked from day one and they're only trying to make it worse. There's zero reason my mother who was bed ridden, using a feeding tube, and in a medically induced coma for 3 months with no hope of fully recovering physically should've been denied disability 3 times before approval.

    With their new policies, they'd leave her for dead.

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    [–] 121 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    well then mitch mcconnell better get the fuck back to work

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  • [–] 46 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    because nearly dead patients need to be self- reliant, & use their bootstraps to glorify the great god Orangutan Cheetoh whilst they breathe their final breath, in Jesus Christ’s name, amen!!!

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  • [–] 39 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    Does this mean Mitch McConnell isn't exempt from work requirements too?

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  • [–] 30 points 3 months ago

    Remember: the cruelty is the point.

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  • [–] 28 points 3 months ago

    The cruelty is the point

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago* (2 children)

    Of course. They would much rather see poor people with expensive needs die off. Your life has no value to these fascist ghouls. Not unless they can extract something of value from you.

    The whole idea of a work requirement for medicaid is insane. You can't mooch off healthcare to support yourself, it isn't a replacement for income. If anything, this will only cause more people to become unable to work because they lose access to the care that helps keep them in the workforce.

    It's completely backwards. They want you to be outraged because some poor person might get government funded healthcare without having a job. The real outrage is that employers can pay workers a low enough wage that they need government assistance to make up the difference.

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    Your life has no value to anyone but maybe your family, if you’re lucky. I’m not sure why anyone thought differently.

    That’s going to be even more true if you’re disabled. Regardless of what con artist politicians might say.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    What the fuck is judges rational for denying this? I hope fucking judge gets fucking terminal ass cancer and force to work.

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    I'm sorry, work where, exactly?

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago

    Always a pleasure when they add a fuck you to struggling people in the bills cutting taxes for billionaires.

    Just in case you didn’t know where you stand in the active class war being waged against you every single day.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    No government benefit work requirements until the Mitch McConnell Equal Work Requirements for Congress bill is passed.

    Pass the MMEWRC now!

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago

    Oh look. Further evidence we're all fucking slaves. Time to eat some fat fucks face off.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Sometimes I hope hell is a real place.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Can someone please give a second solution to everything that's going on?

    Where is the second solution?

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    they people need to be made an example of, put in their own worst hell.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Terminally ill Americans have NO excuse for not committing acts of heroism on a massive scale.

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  • [+] -62 points 3 months ago* (20 children)

    I have to say, that doesn't seem unreasonable. My understanding is that one can get a terminal diagnosis long before one becomes too sick to work.

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  • [–] 29 points 3 months ago

    Yes, and if you're able to work and only have months to live, that's the best use of your time. For the benefit of society, of course. But also to keep your dignity and not be a freeloader. Without those 200 or so extra hours of work, the share market might dip. Or worse, you might get to spend some time with friends or family. Or going to medical appointments.

    /s

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah cause that totally works for neurological diseases and disorders that dont show symptoms generally until 10-20 years after diagnosis.... next up chemotherapy patients still have motor function! Meaning they can run a register hurdurrr

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Can’t wait for the exciting new frontier of paying disabled people below minimum wage

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't think it matters if you're too sick to work. That's treating people as existing solely for your own benefit, to be exploited.

    What does matter, IMHO, is what your expected timeline is. At one time, HIV could've been considered a terminal diagnosis. It couldn't be treated, it would always advance to AIDS, and eventually that would cause your death. But that was likely to be 10+ years away.

    If you've got less than a year to live, the government should cover your fucking medical care, no exception. Well, maybe the ultra-rich, but I'm sure they'd find a way around it anyway.

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    That’s treating people as existing solely for your own benefit, to be exploited.

    What do you mean by that in this context? I don't think Medicaid pays for people's healthcare in order that they might work (at least not in this context). It is rather more like a charity program, with the associated reasoning being that people who could work instead of accepting charity should.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Do you want your Air Traffic Controller, Pilot, firefighter, paramedic, surgeon, or Engineer in charge of your power plant working with a terminal cancer diagnosis?

    Knowing you're dying affects your ability to focus, causes depression, and a whole host of other neurological effects that mean you're way more likely to make mistakes, and way less likely to care about other people depending on how the news affects you.

    This is likely to kill more people who didn't have to die than it would save the government monetarily. If I have to work to get Medicaid while I'm terminally ill, I'll happily just not pay taxes for that and use that money for my own care when the need arises.

    The government already can come in after you die and take all your assets to pay back what you took from Medicaid. This is literally just so they can take more from your loved ones once you're gone.

    For the record, I don't want people in low wage or low stakes jobs working while terminally ill either. I'm just illustrating how short sighted your view is.

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    [–] 16 points 3 months ago

    “One of the most significant factors in whether someone survives a cancer diagnosis is whether they have health insurance coverage,” Lisa Lacasse, president of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

    What a ridiculously brutal and stupid country.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago

    Terminally ill patients are often on a regular regimen of narcotics and benzos. Being terminally ill can be a painful process. In addition to the anxiety of feeling your own death approaching.

    So they want folks on drugs, possibly too weak to stand, at work.

    Checks out, for the Republican Party.

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Wonder if my maga dad with stage 4 cancer agrees?

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    Go Mitch Go!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Government needs that tax base to pay for wars

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    [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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

    In fact, skip the ly-ill part.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Terminally ill people are bound by no laws on earth. Nothing to lose, nothing to fear.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago

    This guy better hope the universe doesn't have a sense of humour.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    Terminally ill patients are gonna start taking pot shots at these idiots. I just know it.

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    [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I don't normally wish bad things to happen to other people...but, I really hope that a lot of Trump supporters end up losing their healthcare coverage.

    They need to see first-hand, what they voted for.

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