1. Desmintiendo la Cifra de 34 Millones de Adultos "Able-Bodied".
La principal fuente de controversia fue la afirmación de que existen 34 millones de adultos en Medicaid aptos para el trabajo que podrían reemplazar a los trabajadores migrantes. Los críticos señalan que esta cifra es una manipulación, ya que la mayoría de los beneficiarios son niños, ancianos, personas con discapacidades o individuos que ya trabajan en empleos de bajos salarios sin seguro médico.
- The idea that there are 34 million able-bodied adults on medicaid who can be easily relocated to work picking crops is pure fantasy.
- Most people on medicaid already work. Most of the ones who dont have disabilities that prevent it.
- The secretary of agriculture stated that medicaid recipients could replace deported farm workers. In what world do those people live? people that receive medicaid are either children, disabled or elderly.
- 40 percent of medicaid are infants that cant replace migrant farm workers, grandma may not want to harvest watermelons.
2. Inviabilidad Física y Logística del Trabajo Agrícola.
El trabajo agrícola es descrito como extenuante, calificado y mal pagado, lo que lo hace inadecuado para la población de Medicaid, que a menudo padece problemas de salud o vive lejos de las zonas agrícolas. Además, se cuestiona si los nuevos trabajos ofrecerían seguro médico, lo que mantendría a los trabajadores en Medicaid de todos modos.
- I looked it up and 23 of people on medicaid have jobs. They are trying to invoke welfare queen images of people who are getting help with medical care. Think walmart and mcdonald employees. This is not a ready workforce for farm labor.
- I worked summers in apricot orchards alongside migrant workers. I worked as hard as i could and didnt produce a 15 that my coworkers could. To even suggest that medicaid recipients could replace these hard skilled workers is so incredibly stupid.
- What if the medicaid recipient doesnt live near a farm? these are disabled elderly people.
- If they think that people on medicaid are going to be willing to work in the fields for upwards of 80 hours a day, they are out of their minds.
3. Acusaciones de Esclavitud y Crueldad.
La propuesta fue ampliamente condenada como un acto de crueldad y una forma de trabajo forzado o servidumbre por contrato, comparándola con prácticas históricas oscuras. La idea de obligar a personas enfermas o vulnerables a realizar trabajos manuales intensos para mantener su cobertura médica generó una fuerte reacción moral.
- These fucktrds want to turn medicaid recipients into indentured servants ie must work the farms to earn their medicaid coverage.
- Most people on medicaid cant do farmwork. This sound more like the slave labor camps of the final solution.
- Medicaid work requirements means indentured farm servitude if you want to survive.
- So, people with medical issues are going to be forced labor on farms in order to keep their medicaid? thats the grand plan?