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I am losing Medicaid starting March 1st because I make $131 a month too much SSDI and am fully disabled. There are 40 million more Americas just like me and there is no solution.
There is a solution. Universal healthcare. There just isn't the political will. I'm sorry you're losing Medicaid. I hope you don't have any chronic health conditions.
Yeah, and we've been trying since Teddy Roosevelt. But hey, at least there's the political will to support Netanyahu's genocide. That's way more important than whatever piddly nonsense poor sick people want.
The welfare cliff is, I think, one of the biggest drivers of poverty in the states. Without a system that provides a smooth transition there’s really no way that people can get out of poverty.
Often, people who actually get jobs so that they don't have to be dependent on Welfare end up making less money because of the cutoff salary.
How is anyone supposed to get off welfare when the system is set up that way?
Yep. That’s the cliff. You make enough to not qualify but not enough to survive or even keep up with what you got before. It actively incentives people to not work
Sorry to hear that. The Republican-controlled house of congress is so dysfunctional that I can't imagine their fixing it before you lose coverage.
Vote Biden?