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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(126,604 posts)
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:05 PM Jun 25

Mike Johnson Mocks Millions Who Could Lose Medicaid: 'Do Something Constructive'

If President Donald Trump’s tax bill becomes law, millions of people are expected to lose access to Medicaid, the government insurance program for low-income and disabled Americans.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doesn’t feel bad for them — and has argued, in fact, that stripping their health care is the “moral” thing to do. Johnson’s message to these millions of people on Tuesday was to insult them. “For heaven’s sake, do something constructive,” he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill, arguing the legislation simply brings “common sense” to the Medicaid program.

Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” would authorize another round of tax cuts for the rich — and it would be financed, in part, with sweeping cuts to Medicaid.

Some of these savings would be achieved by imposing work requirements on all supposedly “able-bodied” adults on Medicaid under the age of 65, demanding they either work or volunteer at least 20 hours a week. Medicaid contains strict income caps mandating that recipients earn little money — so the new work requirements are effectively a demand that recipients toil in low-wage jobs in order to maintain their health insurance.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/mike-johnson-mocks-millions-could-203430774.html

Mighty Xtian of you Mike.

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Mike Johnson Mocks Millions Who Could Lose Medicaid: 'Do Something Constructive' (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 25 OP
He appears more satanist than Christian to me. spanone Jun 25 #1
Satanists can be good people. aocommunalpunch Jun 25 #3
Sadist. milestogo Jun 25 #23
Christianity is as Christianity does. Mariana Jun 25 #24
Sad... spanone Jun 25 #25
Blue Storm Surge 2026 would be constructive. Careful what you pray for, Moses Mike. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Jun 25 #2
So... AltairIV Jun 25 #4
Mikey's disconnected from reality. Seems all Repugs believe they're the only people allegorical oracle Jun 25 #14
There are only so many factories making bombs Klarkashton Jun 25 #5
Well there is always becoming a masked bounty hunter for tRump. CentralMass Jun 25 #6
Constructive ????? Traildogbob Jun 25 #7
maga Mike needs to be confronted with facts about Medicaid in Louisiana. Snarkoleptic Jun 25 #8
No, Mikey, how 'bout YOU do something CONSTRUCTIVE B.See Jun 25 #9
Hey Mike, how about you start doing something constructive and stop being a Murdoch / Trump stooge? Initech Jun 25 #10
He uses a no-porn app to keep himself off porno. Demovictory9 Jun 25 #11
You go first, Mikey. Do something constructive. sinkingfeeling Jun 25 #12
He is an absolute POS. valleyrogue Jun 25 #13
Mike Johnson's Jesus C_U_L8R Jun 25 #15
Mikey, you just might find out that taunting the desperate can result in consequences you'd not intended... hlthe2b Jun 25 #16
"...while I continue the destruction." Qutzupalotl Jun 25 #17
If voters wanted to do something "constructive"... kentuck Jun 25 #18
Says one of the least constructive people in government Bristlecone Jun 25 #19
Man, what an asshole sakabatou Jun 25 #20
Hard to make a call on who's the worst in this argument/complaint peggysue2 Jun 25 #21
Their arrogance bdamomma Jun 25 #27
Question for Mike: moondust Jun 25 #22
That response bdamomma Jun 25 #26
I'd like Democrats to point out that in real first world countries healthcare is a right. OrlandoDem2 Jun 25 #28
Hey Mikey, Do something not destructive to humans and earth! Clouds Passing Jun 25 #29
Volunteer, you mean tat the places DonCoquixote Jun 25 #30
Hey Mikey, at least people on medicaid Just_Vote_Dem Jun 25 #31
According to Newsweek 32.4% of the Louisiana population is on Medicaid. TomSlick Jun 25 #32

Mariana

(15,570 posts)
24. Christianity is as Christianity does.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:37 PM
Jun 25

Most Christian voters cast their ballots for Trump three times.

AltairIV

(911 posts)
4. So...
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:10 PM
Jun 25

"....do something constructive..." that's rich coming from a professional politican, the most useless lifeform on the planet.

allegorical oracle

(5,445 posts)
14. Mikey's disconnected from reality. Seems all Repugs believe they're the only people
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:26 PM
Jun 25

who work hard. Everybody else is lounging around eating chocolates all day.

Klarkashton

(3,670 posts)
5. There are only so many factories making bombs
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:25 PM
Jun 25

For the military. You know the kind of places that the govt supports that pay for medical insurance.

Traildogbob

(11,582 posts)
7. Constructive ?????
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:35 PM
Jun 25

Like Mitch said. “Get over it”
Exactly what Jesus told poor and sick people.
“Get over it assholes, daddy has priorities”. Rich people.
Eat shit in hell Moses. He is as fake as Trump hair, color, religion, height, waist size and golf victories.
May RFK Jr health care make an Example of him and his smirk. An extremely painful lesson, as we smirk.

Snarkoleptic

(6,170 posts)
8. maga Mike needs to be confronted with facts about Medicaid in Louisiana.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:42 PM
Jun 25

KFF has data by State at the link-
https://www.kff.org/interactive/medicaid-state-fact-sheets/

Medicaid in Louisiana May 2025 - 1,856,000 children and adults are enrolled in Louisiana Medicaid
Among all Medicaid enrollees in Louisiana:
3 in 8 (36%) are children
1 in 5 (20%) live in a rural area
1 in 6 (18%) have three or more chronic conditions

LA expansion status: Adopted
Adults in expansion group: 785,000

A majority (69%) of Medicaid adults are working in Louisiana

Medicaid covers from 31% to 47% of people in LA’s congressional districts

B.See

(5,980 posts)
9. No, Mikey, how 'bout YOU do something CONSTRUCTIVE
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:44 PM
Jun 25

on behalf of AMERICANS, instead of your filthy rich fascists, you SPINELESS FUCK.

Initech

(105,798 posts)
10. Hey Mike, how about you start doing something constructive and stop being a Murdoch / Trump stooge?
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 01:44 PM
Jun 25

valleyrogue

(2,245 posts)
13. He is an absolute POS.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:13 PM
Jun 25

The great bulk of the money spent in Medicaid are for those people in nursing homes. They can't work, and they aren't bums.

Single mothers with ten kids from ten different fathers on Medicaid "milking the system" is a myth and always was.

What an asshole Mike Johnson is. Still pandering to the b.s. "politics of resentment."

C_U_L8R

(47,750 posts)
15. Mike Johnson's Jesus
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:40 PM
Jun 25

... taught him to stomp on the poor for they are only slackers and leeches.

What an asshole.

hlthe2b

(110,827 posts)
16. Mikey, you just might find out that taunting the desperate can result in consequences you'd not intended...
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 02:42 PM
Jun 25

but that you may well deserve, given your fake piety and complete lack of compassion and empathy.

kentuck

(114,447 posts)
18. If voters wanted to do something "constructive"...
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 03:01 PM
Jun 25

They could vote out the faux Christian that aims to make all his people's lives much more difficult. He is a plastic man, a quisling, a coward, a traitor to our country.

peggysue2

(12,064 posts)
21. Hard to make a call on who's the worst in this argument/complaint
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 04:54 PM
Jun 25

Over drastic cuts to life-saving health care benefits.

Mike Johnson: Oh for Heaven's sake, do something constructive

Or,

Mitch McConnell: They'll get over it

Or,

Joni Ernst: We're all going to die

Joni has my vote with that extra effort, a stroll through a cemetery. Oscar bound!

Brought to you by Republicans, otherwise known as The Death Party

moondust

(20,961 posts)
22. Question for Mike:
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:02 PM
Jun 25

Hey Mike, are you, Mitch, Joni, and the gang going to use the savings from gutting Medicaid to set up some regional camps for those former Medicaid patients to get together and let their illnesses run their course?

You know...death camps.

bdamomma

(68,906 posts)
26. That response
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:50 PM
Jun 25

that Mike the snake Johnson made doesn't sound to Christian to me.

What a POS he is.

OrlandoDem2

(3,058 posts)
28. I'd like Democrats to point out that in real first world countries healthcare is a right.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 05:53 PM
Jun 25

In America you have to find the right job to have healthcare.

We are feudal serfs to our corporate masters who tie healthcare to employment.

DonCoquixote

(13,919 posts)
30. Volunteer, you mean tat the places
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 06:02 PM
Jun 25

That would never hire or even want volunteer work from anyone not recommended by the local ham-fisted churches? Mike's idea of constructive is whatever lets him get a paycheck while sucking up to Trump, even as fellow maga have called for his head because he does not shovel people, into the furnace fast enough.

TomSlick

(12,624 posts)
32. According to Newsweek 32.4% of the Louisiana population is on Medicaid.
Wed Jun 25, 2025, 07:35 PM
Jun 25
https://www.newsweek.com/maga-medicaid-which-states-have-highest-beneficiaries-2033077

If a significant part of these folks are thrown off Medicaid, hospitals in Louisiana will close. I cannot understand how this is politically attractive to any Congress member from the state. To remain Speaker, he must first be re-elected.
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