Poll: With More Than Half the Public Saying They or a Family Member Have Been Covered by Medicaid, Large Majorities Don’t Want Cuts, Including Most Trump Voters and Rural Residents | KFF
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As Congress considers changes to the Medicaid program as part of the budget debate, relatively few (17%) in the public say they want to see a reduction in Medicaid spending, with larger shares saying they want spending to stay about the same (40%) or increase (42%), a new KFF Health Tracking Poll finds. Support for…More

Most Support Adding Work Requirements to Medicaid, but Views Shift with Arguments Made for and Against

    • darvocet@infosec.pub
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      2 days ago

      I’m ready for it to get much much worse so i can actually enjoy the stories of people saying they regret their choice. It’s not nearly bad enough yet.

      • ilinamorato@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        It will have to get really bad before people actually say it out loud. There are probably already a significant number of people who are thinking it, but to actually admit they were wrong or shortsighted?

        The American conservative machine is built on always doubling down, never admitting you’re wrong, never conceding, and never expressing doubts. Admitting you’re wrong is “losing.” They might vote in accordance with the belief that they were wrong (though more likely they’ll just stay home), but they won’t say it out loud.

        • ArcturusRoot@lemmy.world
          6·
          2 days ago

          This makes more sense when you look at conservatives as a whole. They’re by far the largest consumers of sports, sports betting, and are hyper-competitive - they’ll do anything to win.

          Just go to any youth sports event and just observe who is doing what. The parents that are doing nothing but positive cheering for their team (and even congratulating the other team on a genuinely good play) look like your stereotypical NPR mom/dad. The ones screaming, coaching from the sidelines, complaining the “ref is fucking us”, are all the same stereotypical conservatives sporting a goatee, karen cut, oakleys, and tacticool tshirts promoting warrior mentality.

          For them, loss is weakness. Aggression is strength. The only way they’ll even come close to admitting they fucked up is couching in a way that lets them save face. They’ll blame someone or something else. Never themselves.

          You can’t lose if you never accept the final score.

    • ceenote@lemmy.world
      8·
      2 days ago

      By this point, it’s clear that it’s foolishly optimistic to assume they’ll think of it in the next election, either. Fox News will spend the next year bleaching any memory of it from their brains.

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    13·
    2 days ago

    If President Musk, who PROMISED to Cut my Medicaid, CUTS my Medicaid it’s JOE BIDENS FAULT!

          • Drax_@lemmy.world
            10·
            2 days ago

            Not at the moment. Seems pretty similar to Reddit except for a smaller user base and community-controlled. Going to take some adjusting that the subs I used to spend all of my time on have almost no members.

            • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
              6·
              2 days ago

              At the risk of giving unsolicited advice, I find that you get a lot of people willing to discuss things if you post in a general community related to the topic.

              For example instead of posting in an empty sub for a specific video game or sports team, there’s /c/gaming or /c/baseball that have people who are happy to chat.

            • can@sh.itjust.works
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              2 days ago

              If you’re willing I have found that regularly contributing to a community, even if it’s just you, will lead to others participating sooner than you may expect.

              That advice about broader topics is also good however. Niche communities aren’t generally necessary until the broader ones become too flooded.

              Edit: unless focused on a hyper-niche, with tight focus, such as !obscureinstruments@sh.itjust.works or !soundfontcovers@sh.itjust.works

              (Disclosure: I created both examples.

  • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    A work requirement would be particularly perverse. It just further normalizes employers paying shit wages and providing little or no benefits, with programs like medicaid and snap making up the difference. It’s an indirect subsidy that only makes it easier to keep wages low.

    Maybe we should do the opposite and tax businesses that pay low enough wages for their employees to qualify for assistance. Although, we’d probably get more results by instituting an income inequality tax that increases based on the difference in total compensation between the highest and lowest paid employees. Make it so that the only way executives can increase their own pay is by paying their employees well too.

    • CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      It’s not enough for conservatives to win. They want to rub your face in it. Make you bend the knee and kiss the ring.

      This is about flexing power and influence and not about politicking.

      And their base absolutely eats it up.