Would you as a business owner hire who had no pride in his/her appearance and desire to work! They need to realize that people need to work for their self-respect and fairness to the people who do work for a living! Getting every thing free is an incentive to be lazy!
If you are operating a restaurant, would you hire a person who came in FULL of tattoos, multi colored hair, less than appropriate clothing. There are charity locations who will help people look professional or at least presentable to do a job, I would not hire some of these who look weird, plus often have no manners or pleasant personality! After all, they represented your business!
The Modern GOP will never waste the opportunity to deny someone Healthcare. The People passed this Medicaid Expansion, these folks are attempting to Mess with it. They always do.
The heart and soul of this bill is both heartless and soul-less. It is judgmental, of a cruel mindset, and certainly wishes to lessen and even do away with much of the burden of loving your fellow man and helping those in need. It will be un Christian in the way it is administered and everyone knows it. It uses ignorant stereotyping to "presume" that every person needing medicaid doesn't really deserve it. Setting up a system like this will DEFINITELY give rise to a right wing standard being set to determine who can work (i.e., is "able-bodied") and very few will meet that standard whether they are mentally ill, suffering overwhelming grief, developmentally disabled or in chronic pain. It will not take into account child care needs vs the amount of money the so-called able-bodied person is realistically able to make. And there will need to be expanded bureaucracy to make these largely unfair determinations of who should be able to work and should be deprived of healthcare. And what about when the unfair decision is made and the family - yes the entire FAMILY - is disqualified from healthcare? Are the children to also be deprived of healthcare when a bureaucrat decides the dad or single mom looks like a freeloader? What does the family do in the meantime even if they can find a lawyer to battle the bureaucracy. What is the matter with the people pushing this? Can't they think further ahead than: Duh! "Work is a SD ethic. and people who can work should have to?" Where are their hearts? Don't call yourselves Christian if you would put this in motion against the poorest of our families.
On Jill Franken’s point to this counterpoint (which doesn’t allow comments) she points out that just like Chuck Point’s post the GOP nationwide is working to disqualify people from Medicaid. It’s amazing that the three tax cuts under George W Bush and the one under Donald Trump have taken our national debt from less than 6 trillion to nearly 36 trillion in 23 short years, but these fiscal hawks would deny healthcare to the least advantaged among us. And they forget that Medicaid was designed to bring down the cost of healthcare for everyone as it would mean that those who didn’t have healthcare previously had to wait until it was an emergency room situation which drove the cost up exponentially.
Let's start once again with the assumption that you know everyone's story--every able bodied medicaid recipient is a lazy bum just laying around getting free healthcare, every immigrant is a criminal, every Republican representative simply pulls themselves up by their boot straps when they have a medical issue--all these good Christian's are so empathetic, just hoping to incentivize these lazy bums to get a job because Jesus said the poor and needy should just get a job. Ignore also that medicaid reduces uncompensated care costs, reduces the likelihood of hospital closures, and saves money in a myriad of other ways. But sure, let's make it more expensive.
All of that also begs the question of how much will it cost to create this "let them all just work" program and hire the people to track and monitor these lazy bums to make sure they are applying for jobs, getting jobs, holding jobs, etc.. Recall the state of South Dakota just turned down 70 some million dollars of our federal tax monies to partially subsidize South Dakotans who want to buy energy efficient appliances and create more energy efficient homes because we couldn't afford to administer the program . . . though the feds offered monies to offset that cost as well, so now our tax dollars go to other states. Give it a rest Tony--South Dakotans voted for medicaid expansion and while you clearly disagree with that decision, we'll soon see whether folks buy the "just make them work" arguments or not.
This complaining about people getting healhcare "handouts" needs to stop. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Saying otherwise in the world's wealthiest country is, for lack of a better word, sick.
Most people applying for ALL state benefits are already working at places that won't hire them full time in order to avoid paying for benefits like health insurance because that's how corporations make money (and how you buy a $5 tee shirt made buy a kid in Bangladesh who probably doesn't have running wate). Why not address THAT issue instead of making it harder for people with chronic conditions to get the care they need? Being a bit more union friendly here might help save some tax-payer dollars (or that's what I've heard from people in other states). It couldn't be worse than throwing our tax dollars around to attract big businesses only to have them stick the state with the bill for taking care of their employees (lookin' at you Amazon and Walmart).
Personally, I'd rather my tax dollars went to the young mom who's Rheumatoid arthritis flares up if she works too long, or to the 45 year old man with teens who just found he has cancer, or to the family of four with a baby in the NICU, than to another "development" or "promotional" fund to attract a place that has no real interest in taking care of South Dakotans, but that's just me.
Forcing sick individuals back to work isn't merely an assault on their health — it jeopardizes the entire community’s well-being. The GOP's relentless agenda to restrict health care and reduce support for those already battling illness is nothing short of unacceptable. Now, they dare to dictate who qualifies for care, inserting themselves into our patient medical exam rooms.
The language voted into our constitution in Amendment D (2022) prohibited the legislature from ever considering a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients. As a result, the able-bodied are now competing with the truly needy, handicapped and disadvataged for Medicaid dollars. Employers are disincentivised from offering private coverage because their employees who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty rate can qualify for coverage under Medicaid. Remember, coverage does not equal care, and the more people loaded into the system the less care everyone will get.
All that F does is strike the prohibition of a work requirement. Any proposal of such requirement by the legislature would have to be approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and would necessarily contain exemption for single parents with young children, students, people with serious illnesses, etc.
Don't believe the ads saying otherwise. The opponents want to destroy private insurance and put everyone in government health systems.
To these three people who responded in a Christian manner to Tony Venhuizen's column on certain conditions to qualify for Medicaid, I say, "Blessings be upon you daily!"
The Heart of Everything, N. Dean Nasser, Jr., and Julie Atwood.
I strongly believe this should be enforced! Also, places such as the Bishop Dudley House gives young able bodied people a bed to sleep in at 5 PM and at 9AM put them out on the street with no encouragement to try to get a job!, (I am Catholic but am very disappointed in their facility)I know this from experience, and have seen young able bodied people on the street during the day with cell phones and cigarettes, who have no intention to work! They get drunk with the money they get, eat at the Banquet, and sleep at the Bishop Dudley House. They should not be able to have a license to run that kind of facility! They rob and destroy business in the area, this too I know for a fact as my son has a auto body shop in the area, and has had to clean up their sacks of food from the Banquet and go to work early in the winter to clean the peed in snow and ficus from these lazy bums! Other business owners have lost business due to these people approaching them for money and a convenience store in the area had to close, as they would come in to the place with 3 or 4 people, 1 or 2 to occupy the one employee by the cash register and the others to steal whatever they wanted! This is ridiculous and unfair to the working people!
There are people you do not want cooking your food at McDonalds. McDonalds, a place where you can drive through to get a burger, not a place where they give you a golden fork to eat your steak.
Let’s require businesses to hire everyone that applies for a job. I don’t think business wants to do that.
Would you as a business owner hire who had no pride in his/her appearance and desire to work! They need to realize that people need to work for their self-respect and fairness to the people who do work for a living! Getting every thing free is an incentive to be lazy!
If you are operating a restaurant, would you hire a person who came in FULL of tattoos, multi colored hair, less than appropriate clothing. There are charity locations who will help people look professional or at least presentable to do a job, I would not hire some of these who look weird, plus often have no manners or pleasant personality! After all, they represented your business!
Medicaid is a healthcare program for the less advantaged among us, not a welfare program.
The Modern GOP will never waste the opportunity to deny someone Healthcare. The People passed this Medicaid Expansion, these folks are attempting to Mess with it. They always do.
The heart and soul of this bill is both heartless and soul-less. It is judgmental, of a cruel mindset, and certainly wishes to lessen and even do away with much of the burden of loving your fellow man and helping those in need. It will be un Christian in the way it is administered and everyone knows it. It uses ignorant stereotyping to "presume" that every person needing medicaid doesn't really deserve it. Setting up a system like this will DEFINITELY give rise to a right wing standard being set to determine who can work (i.e., is "able-bodied") and very few will meet that standard whether they are mentally ill, suffering overwhelming grief, developmentally disabled or in chronic pain. It will not take into account child care needs vs the amount of money the so-called able-bodied person is realistically able to make. And there will need to be expanded bureaucracy to make these largely unfair determinations of who should be able to work and should be deprived of healthcare. And what about when the unfair decision is made and the family - yes the entire FAMILY - is disqualified from healthcare? Are the children to also be deprived of healthcare when a bureaucrat decides the dad or single mom looks like a freeloader? What does the family do in the meantime even if they can find a lawyer to battle the bureaucracy. What is the matter with the people pushing this? Can't they think further ahead than: Duh! "Work is a SD ethic. and people who can work should have to?" Where are their hearts? Don't call yourselves Christian if you would put this in motion against the poorest of our families.
Wrong - health care is not a handout. Stop poor shaming and punishing poor people and those less fortunate than you.
You are arguing private health insurance is efficient? Please!
This article assumes we trust our legislators. Not happening.
On Jill Franken’s point to this counterpoint (which doesn’t allow comments) she points out that just like Chuck Point’s post the GOP nationwide is working to disqualify people from Medicaid. It’s amazing that the three tax cuts under George W Bush and the one under Donald Trump have taken our national debt from less than 6 trillion to nearly 36 trillion in 23 short years, but these fiscal hawks would deny healthcare to the least advantaged among us. And they forget that Medicaid was designed to bring down the cost of healthcare for everyone as it would mean that those who didn’t have healthcare previously had to wait until it was an emergency room situation which drove the cost up exponentially.
Let's start once again with the assumption that you know everyone's story--every able bodied medicaid recipient is a lazy bum just laying around getting free healthcare, every immigrant is a criminal, every Republican representative simply pulls themselves up by their boot straps when they have a medical issue--all these good Christian's are so empathetic, just hoping to incentivize these lazy bums to get a job because Jesus said the poor and needy should just get a job. Ignore also that medicaid reduces uncompensated care costs, reduces the likelihood of hospital closures, and saves money in a myriad of other ways. But sure, let's make it more expensive.
All of that also begs the question of how much will it cost to create this "let them all just work" program and hire the people to track and monitor these lazy bums to make sure they are applying for jobs, getting jobs, holding jobs, etc.. Recall the state of South Dakota just turned down 70 some million dollars of our federal tax monies to partially subsidize South Dakotans who want to buy energy efficient appliances and create more energy efficient homes because we couldn't afford to administer the program . . . though the feds offered monies to offset that cost as well, so now our tax dollars go to other states. Give it a rest Tony--South Dakotans voted for medicaid expansion and while you clearly disagree with that decision, we'll soon see whether folks buy the "just make them work" arguments or not.
This complaining about people getting healhcare "handouts" needs to stop. Healthcare is a right, not a privilege. Saying otherwise in the world's wealthiest country is, for lack of a better word, sick.
Most people applying for ALL state benefits are already working at places that won't hire them full time in order to avoid paying for benefits like health insurance because that's how corporations make money (and how you buy a $5 tee shirt made buy a kid in Bangladesh who probably doesn't have running wate). Why not address THAT issue instead of making it harder for people with chronic conditions to get the care they need? Being a bit more union friendly here might help save some tax-payer dollars (or that's what I've heard from people in other states). It couldn't be worse than throwing our tax dollars around to attract big businesses only to have them stick the state with the bill for taking care of their employees (lookin' at you Amazon and Walmart).
Personally, I'd rather my tax dollars went to the young mom who's Rheumatoid arthritis flares up if she works too long, or to the 45 year old man with teens who just found he has cancer, or to the family of four with a baby in the NICU, than to another "development" or "promotional" fund to attract a place that has no real interest in taking care of South Dakotans, but that's just me.
Forcing sick individuals back to work isn't merely an assault on their health — it jeopardizes the entire community’s well-being. The GOP's relentless agenda to restrict health care and reduce support for those already battling illness is nothing short of unacceptable. Now, they dare to dictate who qualifies for care, inserting themselves into our patient medical exam rooms.
The language voted into our constitution in Amendment D (2022) prohibited the legislature from ever considering a work requirement for able-bodied Medicaid recipients. As a result, the able-bodied are now competing with the truly needy, handicapped and disadvataged for Medicaid dollars. Employers are disincentivised from offering private coverage because their employees who earn up to 138% of the federal poverty rate can qualify for coverage under Medicaid. Remember, coverage does not equal care, and the more people loaded into the system the less care everyone will get.
All that F does is strike the prohibition of a work requirement. Any proposal of such requirement by the legislature would have to be approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, and would necessarily contain exemption for single parents with young children, students, people with serious illnesses, etc.
Don't believe the ads saying otherwise. The opponents want to destroy private insurance and put everyone in government health systems.
I see nothing wrong with personal responsibility to have a paying job.
To these three people who responded in a Christian manner to Tony Venhuizen's column on certain conditions to qualify for Medicaid, I say, "Blessings be upon you daily!"
The Heart of Everything, N. Dean Nasser, Jr., and Julie Atwood.
I strongly believe this should be enforced! Also, places such as the Bishop Dudley House gives young able bodied people a bed to sleep in at 5 PM and at 9AM put them out on the street with no encouragement to try to get a job!, (I am Catholic but am very disappointed in their facility)I know this from experience, and have seen young able bodied people on the street during the day with cell phones and cigarettes, who have no intention to work! They get drunk with the money they get, eat at the Banquet, and sleep at the Bishop Dudley House. They should not be able to have a license to run that kind of facility! They rob and destroy business in the area, this too I know for a fact as my son has a auto body shop in the area, and has had to clean up their sacks of food from the Banquet and go to work early in the winter to clean the peed in snow and ficus from these lazy bums! Other business owners have lost business due to these people approaching them for money and a convenience store in the area had to close, as they would come in to the place with 3 or 4 people, 1 or 2 to occupy the one employee by the cash register and the others to steal whatever they wanted! This is ridiculous and unfair to the working people!
How very Christian of you.
There are people you do not want cooking your food at McDonalds. McDonalds, a place where you can drive through to get a burger, not a place where they give you a golden fork to eat your steak.