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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMike Johnson Mocks Millions Who Could Lose Medicaid: 'Do Something Constructive'
If President Donald Trumps 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.) doesnt feel bad for them and has argued, in fact, that stripping their health care is the moral thing to do. Johnsons message to these millions of people on Tuesday was to insult them. For heavens sake, do something constructive, he said at a press conference on Capitol Hill, arguing the legislation simply brings common sense to the Medicaid program.
Trumps 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.

spanone
(139,742 posts)aocommunalpunch
(4,520 posts)Mike Johnson cannot be good nor a person.
Mariana
(15,570 posts)Most Christian voters cast their ballots for Trump three times.
Bernardo de La Paz
(57,352 posts)AltairIV
(911 posts)"....do something constructive..." that's rich coming from a professional politican, the most useless lifeform on the planet.
allegorical oracle
(5,445 posts)who work hard. Everybody else is lounging around eating chocolates all day.
Klarkashton
(3,670 posts)For the military. You know the kind of places that the govt supports that pay for medical insurance.
CentralMass
(16,370 posts)Traildogbob
(11,582 posts)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)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 LAs congressional districts
B.See
(5,980 posts)on behalf of AMERICANS, instead of your filthy rich fascists, you SPINELESS FUCK.
Initech
(105,798 posts)
Demovictory9
(36,885 posts)sinkingfeeling
(56,009 posts)valleyrogue
(2,245 posts)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)... taught him to stomp on the poor for they are only slackers and leeches.
What an asshole.
hlthe2b
(110,827 posts)but that you may well deserve, given your fake piety and complete lack of compassion and empathy.
Qutzupalotl
(15,444 posts)Hypocrite.
kentuck
(114,447 posts)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.
Bristlecone
(10,827 posts)sakabatou
(45,138 posts)peggysue2
(12,064 posts)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
bdamomma
(68,906 posts)and true hatred of Americans is disgusting. Such bastards.
moondust
(20,961 posts)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)that Mike the snake Johnson made doesn't sound to Christian to me.
What a POS he is.
OrlandoDem2
(3,058 posts)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.
Clouds Passing
(5,430 posts)DonCoquixote
(13,919 posts)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.
Just_Vote_Dem
(3,319 posts)Aren't trying to DESTROY THE COUNTRY!!!!!!
TomSlick
(12,624 posts)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.