1. La Mayoría de los Adultos en Medicaid Ya Están Empleados.
La creencia de que los beneficiarios de Medicaid son adultos sanos que eligen no trabajar es refutada por datos que indican que una gran mayoría de los adultos en edad laboral ya están activamente en la fuerza laboral. Estos individuos dependen de Medicaid porque sus empleadores no ofrecen seguro médico o los salarios son insuficientes para costearlo.
- 64 percent of medicaid adults worked full or part time.
- Most of the people on medicaid are working. At crappy low wage jobs without health insurance.
- Virtually all able bodied people on medicaid work - they work in jobs that dont provide health insurance and often irregular hours.
- Over half the people who rely on medicaid have jobs that either dont provide healthcare or keep their hours too low to qualify for it.
- Most people on medicaid are in the workforce. Lots of jobs dont offer healthcare. Even if they do, it doesnt mean employees can afford it.
- Most of the people on medicaid are working. At crappy low wage jobs without health insurance. For some of the richest americans - like at walmart or amazon.
2. Quiénes Son los Beneficiarios que No Trabajan.
La población de Medicaid está compuesta principalmente por grupos que no se espera que trabajen, como niños, ancianos y personas con discapacidades. Entre los adultos en edad laboral que no están empleados, la mayoría tiene razones legítimas que los eximen de los requisitos laborales, como responsabilidades de cuidado o problemas de salud.
- Most of the people on medicaid cant work. They are children, the elderly and disabled.
- The vast majority of medicaid recipients either already work or cant work bc theyre children, elderly or disabled.
- 12 percent were caring for dependents, 10 percent were disabled or in poor health, and 7 percent were attending school.
- Only 8 percent of adults under 65 on the program were retired, couldnt find work, or werent working for some other reason.
- 38 of medicaid recipients are children. 44 are adults that actually work bc not all companies offer health coverage, 34 work part-time, and the rest are either disabled, elderly, or caretakers of their family members.
- Many disabled people and children cannot work. Most people on medicaid who can work, do it already.
3. Medicaid como Subsidio Corporativo y el Mito del Desempleado Sano.
Medicaid no es un programa de asistencia en efectivo, sino un seguro de salud. La pequeña fracción de adultos "aptos para trabajar" y desempleados es mínima, y su costo para el sistema es bajo. Se argumenta que el programa subsidia indirectamente a las empresas que se niegan a pagar salarios dignos o a ofrecer beneficios, trasladando el costo de la atención médica al contribuyente.
- Medicaid is health insurance. It doesnt send money to beneficiaries like other welfare programs.
- Medicaid is a corporate subsidy in this sense bc it enables companies not to provide healthcare.
- Able-bodied, working age is such a small subset of medicaid recipients.
- The claim that there are significant numbers of able-bodied workers just laying around abusing medicaid is complete bs.
- Only 3 of medicaid users are able-bodied and abusing the system.
- Able bodied people dont consume a lot of medicaid expenses regardless of if they are working or not.