Let Them Eat Cake

In a rare appearance on ABC’s This Week, Kellyanne Conway said taking away Medicaid from able-bodied adults is no big deal because they can go out and find jobs that provide health insurance.

Easy for you to say.

The problem with that is that the majority of able-bodied adults on Medicaid already have jobs. They work in low-paying jobs that typically don’t offer insurance.

According to the Henry J. Kaiser Foundation, among the able-bodied adults that Conway and congressional Republicans have in mind, 79% are in families where somebody works and 59% have jobs themselves.

In a typical out-of-touch-with-reality comment, Conway said,

“If they are able-bodied and they want to work, then they’ll have employer-sponsored benefits like you and I have.”

In other words; “Let them eat cake.”

Under the current proposed bill heading to a vote in the Senate, Federal subsidy payments to Medicaid would fail to keep up with costs thereby forcing states to make cutbacks that would inevitably affect all groups that depend on the program.

Oh, and by the way, there were NO women in the secret meeting to draft this bill.

Here is a list of Senators supporting the current bill.

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