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BARRASSO: We have over 5 million people sitting at home who are able to work who are on Medicaid and choose not to work WELKER: 92 percent of people who are on Medicaid are either working or would qualify for an exemption

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This is the Reagan /conservative playbook - redefinition and fake “facts” to spin a false narrative on repeat until people start thinking the same way. It’s disgusting and only serves a handful of people and divides this country further.

How she let him continue speaking after the first lie (1+ million "illegal immigrants" on Medicaid)shows how the GOP has an advantage over cowardly news people. That should have been an instant rebut with a stern warning to not continue spreading misinformation on their network.

Every TV network that gives these traitors, liars, and terrorists a platform will not be overlooked during the Revolution and afterward. Without broadcasting these seditionists and spreading mass MISINFORMATION, We wouldn't be as bad off as we are now. #endthegop #banthebullshiters

The Sunday morning talk shows have become worthless. There are over 500 members in the House and Senate, but the shows only seem to be able to book the same handful of sycophants that come on and either lie, peddle MAGA talking points, or proclaim how wonderful Trump is. No worth watching.

It shouldn't Rich, but elected officials are stupid people too. I listened to the most asinine shit ever, during Republican town halls. It was shocking some of the insane things being said, regarding their support of DOGE, and tax cuts

Once we get enough progressives in the dem party to run the policy, even though establishment dems are fighting against it, they will end citizens united! Establishment dems are beholden to corporate donors! They're addicted to the $$ as much as the republicans! Bernie proved he can win without it!

The corporate moguls that fund their campaigns don't care if they're stupid, they just want them to vote for legislation that helps them! They have people seeking out their candidates to put in office, like MTG/Boebart, knowing they're idiots, because they don't want people who can think rationally!

Who is telling Republicans that immigrants are on Medicaid? Most immigrants have free healthcare where they are from. They come here to learn ideas of what to work on mostly. To build trades but that taking a nose dive. Going to have to take odds on a bet for the Republican issues this run.

They are now having doctors offices ask those who have Medicaid and Medicare if they are employed. Even if you just go to a lab for bloodwork the staff are asking. They never asked that before.

I retired from my "official" job 18 years ago and been on Medicare for the last 8 years. Every time I've gone in for treatment/check-ups since I retired, I fill out a questionnaire that asks if I am working and do I have med. insurance through work. Maybe my medical team was ahead of the curve.

Imagine if we could agree, as a society, that money would be better spent increasing minimum wage and paying people, including people harvesting our food, a living wage. We’ve been fed a myth that slavery ended, but is anything really any different?

There are SO MANY questions that poke holes in this plan if you give it even 30 seconds of thought. Literally nobody currently running federal government is capable of a full 30 seconds of thinking.

I don't think these republicans are stupid. I think they are pu$$ies that are afraid of a mean tweet from Fat Hitler. So they lick the boot so hard, they don't even realize they have completely abandoned their principles...like this display of completely shameless fealty.

I've had private, employer, and zero insurance in my life (I'm 45). I only just qualified for Medicaid (I do pay, but it's not a lot) because of the ACA/Medicaid expansion that we voted for in Maine. I work for a small business. I can not afford private insurance again 😭

Thank goodness you qualify and have it! It’s been a life saver for me and I’m happy qualification isn’t so hard now and people can pay a reasonable amount for it. Healthcare should be a human right not a privilege!

I'm honestly not even sure how my blue state will continue it without federal funds. When we voted for it, that was with the understanding that the ACA marketplace & Medicaid had federal subsidies. Where is the money going to come from now?! 😭😡

The worst politicians are the ones who don’t have facts and just repeat party talking points. A close second are the ones who have the facts and just knowingly lie to avoid getting primaried by the cult leader.

The conservative ones primarily kind of like your country almost didn't elect Carney but I'm fucking glad it did! I may have to move to your country if things get way worse! Have a friend in Vancouver, BC

I don't understand their talking point .. Medicaid only pays for medical procedures and whatnot, it doesn't pay you money to sit at home .. ?? Do these morons think that we're all as stupid as their MAGAt cult

It's pretty sad state of society and humanity that, "these people don't work so they don't deserve Healthcare" can be seen as effective massaging. Like free housing. Homelessness is solved by having free housing (no strings). But many don't like the idea of giving away free shit.

I believe the root of it will always be the evil addage "NO ONE OWES YOU ANYTHING!" which my sister and mother disagree strongly with; I do too. I would gladly give my shit away for free! People owe people lots of things - Money, help, food, healthcare, slavery reparations, etc.

I was homeless for nine years. I’ve been on medicaid for 20. I never stopped working. My rent is 30% of my income. SSI says I’m not allowed to make more than they give me.I go off SSI my rent goes down. I’m good with that. Living on heavily trafficked offramp I’m not good with. Or the flooding.

The GOP act like Medicaid is giving away money. It’s fucking healthcare! Something many employers don’t offer and is too expensive anyway. The wealthiest country has the shittiest healthcare system and republicans don’t give a fuck!

I work full time but can’t afford the $400/wk for health insurance. I applied for it through the NYC Medicaid portal NYC as I had to get off my husband’s which cost $500/wk as of 7/1. I now have no insurance, can’t afford a doctor or medication for my Neuropathy, Fibromyalgia, Migraines & ADHD @ 55.

But THEY, our elected privileged class, have the best healthcare in the country and it’s for LIFE! They don’t know how we the little ppl actually live and struggle. They keep beating the drum about illegal ppl receiving benefits. NO, THEY DO NOT! Will someone ask them for PROOF of this lie, please?

Then a Democratic President is elected, passes umpteen bills for Jobs for the Working classes, lowers unemployment & inflation -and Fox & all RW media Lie about him. Rinse & repeat.

What's a "work exemption?" My son with autism works part time, and I anticipate that the fucking Vought/Miller Administration will be going after his Medicaid Insurance next.

If ever the term "meatbag" applied, it's to some of the right-wing nut-job greed-goon pretend-pious anti-science treason-weasels. But even the so-called attractive ones have ugly souls. Or missing souls? Repubs are missing something called human decency.

C'mon Welker, just say it. "That's a lie, Senator. You're lying. There are no undocumented people on Medicaid and 92% of those who are on it ARE working. You're making shit up and lying to American. Get off my show."

It has nothing to do with waste, fraud, or abuse. Heritage and their oligarch donors want to get rid of all social programs. They don't want to be forced to pay taxes to help people. They are social darwinists. They say they want "charity" to be voluntary.

John, if you don't want "able bodied" people on Medicaid, perhaps the first step y'all could take is raising the minimum wage. If we aren't paying people enough to afford access to care, what are you achieving by then kicking them off subsidized care?

She should’ve said “So Senator how did you confidently vote for the bill and tout the benefits of this bill when you don’t know how this system works?” “If you do know, why did you just lie to the American people about the people benefiting from these programs?”

I live in Europe. I am on live-aid (medical excemption). I am one of those "chosing not to work". So to speak. Put me in a working environment and I will go 100% depressed within a week. Too many traumas accumulated. Make me work. Go ahead. See my productivity. Fucking idiots.

Lack of affordable insurance in this country is the problem, not those on Medicaid trying to stay well or get well. Maybe next time, they should ask the guests what Medicaid is and what it pays for....

Mostly Walmart and Amazon workers and such. People working low-wage jobs at large corporations are a large percentage of those receiving food assistance and low-cost insurance. If you want your quick, cheap goods, people, you have to pay. One way or the other.

Hey Barrasshole, basically you are getting a salary and medical benefits by lying and spewing propaganda for the domestic terrorist/convicted felon. That's not work. That's being a traitor and GOPNazi.

Exactly!! There are literally no bigger welfare recipients in our nation than Congress. 135 -165 days of work a year, is NOT earning what they get paid for. Cadillac health insurance, manipulation of the stock market.. the bums need to be paid at the lowest minimum wage rates in the country.

Good to see Bareasso doing something again. His last burst of activity was keeping track of how much money presidents spend on playing golf, but he stopped doing this in Jan 2017 for some reason.

How are the “$5 million people sitting at home on Medicaid” supporting themselves? Medicaid just pays the bills if they get sick. No food, no housing, no transportation, just medical care. It’s fiction, propaganda pure & simple

Sen Barrasso is an embarrassment to the Senate with his BS statements. Medicaid is not paying those on it, it pays the providers. The only ones getting rich on Medicaid are unscrupulous providers (like Rick Scott). The “good” Senator is a liar who knows better.

I’m still reading people on other platforms who think social security was still exempted on the big ugly bill. They have no incentive to broadcast facts if their base doesn’t care about facts

They won’t correct them. Dems MUST go on all the propaganda sites to correct the record & also tell maga the truth, which is critical to changing their minds or at least giving them the opportunity to better decide what to believe. A steady stream of propaganda is what they’re subjected to.

He’s a physician! Is he so privileged, entitled & out of touch w/reality the never saw patients on Medicaid?Undocumented immigrants are not eligible for Medicaid. Patients I see on Medicaid work 1 or 2 jobs to provide for their families or are children or disabled or sick or fragile senior citizens.

WHY do journalists NEVER bring up FL senator rick scott -- whose OWN company, Columbia Hospital Corp HCA was caught/convicted of STEALING BILLION$$$ from Medicare/Medicaid/US taxpayers/US govt & received 14 felony convictions & FINED $1.7 BILLION -- as Exhibit A for waste/fraud/abuse⁉️‼️ S H A M E‼️

rollingstone.comRick Scott Demands More Cuts to Medicaid, Which His Company Allegedly ScammedScott says his proposal to slash $313 billion more from Medicaid in Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will protect the program “for those who truly need it.”

Notice how the narrative changed from “of course we’re not touching Medicaid” to “Medicaid recipients are bums and deserve to get kicked off”? A lot of people are going to suffer because of this but they honestly couldn’t give a crap. They feel untouchable right now.

That sad excuse for a Dr. is my senator. He has clearly not read the data on this no surprise there. Not sure how he sleeps at night. Worse thing is Wyoming residents don’t care and he has never had to run a real campaign to keep his seat that by the way was appointed. I really hope that changes.

Call their asses out more! Follow up for the GOP who want to claim ppl sit at home, or the 35-year-olds in the basement: ask them to describe these people for us. Don't let them get away with a bogeyman description; make them state their racist/bigoted/classist stance in full.

Like to show this guy my most recent x-ray. The ball joint at the top of my right femur is jammed at the top of the socket joint of my pelvis. There is no more cartilage. Bone-on-bone osteoarthritis. Bone pain. Sit and spin, Mr. Barrasso.

Republicans keep pushing a false narrative that Medicaid recipients don’t work. That’s not true. Many are low wage earners working in places like Walmart that couch their employees to apply for Medicaid. Does this mean Republicans will force Walmart to provide medical insurance for their workers?

the thing repubs won’t dare admit is working people are using Medicaid bec they work for cheap bast**ds who intentionally keep them part-time so as to not provide them any benefits, retail, grocers, restaurants, fast food abuse PT workers & in a lot of states these workers make less than $10/hr

when an aspirin given in a hospital can have 12 profit points & stockholders it will never be affordable, making our health a commodity was never going to result in affordable care, it actually factors into the country’s GNP-roughly 17%

that was MY son as well-- contract work for a few years. He had to get our state's Empire Plan which dovetails off Medicaid-- now he has a full time but before? it was a godsend and he did pay $50 a month for it

Good for him! Mine turns 25 next spring and I’m not sure what he’ll be able to do bc he lives in FL 😬 We’ll cross that bridge when he comes to it. Fingers crossed by then he can get on FT with The Mouse! 🤞🏻

I’m sure my 90 year old, 83 pound MIL with late stage dementia, severe scoliosis and one leg would be able to out and get a job. Maybe she could work picking crops?? Is that what this entitled fuk wants? I guess he doesn’t realize that Medicaid covers elderly in nursing homes.

Can ONE reporter just once look at them and say, “you do realize Medicaid payments got to the PROVIDERS so if there is “waste fraud and abuse” that is where it is. No individual gets a Medicaid check mailed to them

Many on medicaid are CHILDREN whose parents can't find or can't do full-time work with benefits. Republicans want to kill Headstart & subsidized day care, leaving EVEN MORE low income parents unable to work full time!!! GOP: Bitching about the problem that we're actively making worse.

Many on Medicaid HAVE children and cannot buy childcare in order to find work. Not only that, childcare is far less available today because the secret police have started kidnapping the workers. Eventually ICE will take care of both the mother and child problem. Citizen or no.

Pathetic American journalists don't have the nerve to stop lying politicians instantaneously and explain that they will not continue the interview if they do not stop spreading misinformation. They helped bring the US to where it is. Shame on these weak journos.