Honestly things like this show me the President has to much power. There should be government agencies where no political party can touch it without significant oversight and approval from both the president and both houses of congress.
Medicare, Medicaid, FBI, FCC, FAA, The Fed, and more all should be outside admin control of the president and any single party or group of individuals. Only when you have a 2/3s majority of both the houses and the president should you be able to make such broad sweeping policy changes.
There's plenty here to discuss without being hyperbolic.
Most will never be asked for 'proof' they are unable to work as this memo directs states to review medical records to automatically exempt qualified patients.
Blindly believing a source with a known history of both bias and lying leads you to these conclusions. It's pure garbage, the headline is literally false by any angle.
[1] https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-11094.pdf
Not just the executive, but the federal government in general has way too much power. There are so many things that the federal government does which it wasn't meant to do, all justified by an extremely bad faith reading of the commerce clause. It is a significant source of problems for our nation, because it makes federal elections (and in particular the election for president) super high stakes for people. We would be much better off without the various perversions of the constitution that FDR pushed through, but I suspect there's no political will to walk it back (because people love getting money from the government).
"Significant source of problems" that what, we have health care and clean air? You indicate your desire to tear it all down & that's what we are seeing everywhere, but why, and for what? It's so unfathomable, so unclear that "we would be much better off" to not have the world's best institutions as we do, the greatest science the best education, the world's leading medicine.
It's so unclear what drives this destructive anti-government fervor to me. You've given me not even a single remote small hint. Neither had this administration as they have, as barbarians, come in and chainsawed as much as they can down. For what? What makes people so opposed to a society? Wanting so badly to make sure there is no government, no services, no help, no collective will?
On par with this administration- Goons pulled back because they're murdering innocent civilians at car stops? Chief goon steps up and says "put them back!"
Then he takes to the waves to instill fear and uncertainty in our election process.
Americans are being boiled alive, nice and slow- and a third of them love it!
If an individual IS too sick to work it should be relatively simple to get the required documents to prove that fact. God know i had enough hospital social workers and doctors asking me if it wanted said documentation.
I really hope you have a great job which fullfills you and thats the reason why you continue working but A LOT of people do not have something like this.
It only shows how little our society values humans despite us having all resources and all knowledge necessary to feed and house every single human on the planet right now.
Wish you a fullfilled happy life.
https://www.allsides.com/news-source/common-dreams-media-bia...
Thats common sense. People with HIV are usually able to work, and usually not terminally ill in the typical sense.
There are already comments defending the silly idea of HIV patients being excluded from work expectations: “if that’s the cost of a social safety net …”
That’s not the cost of a social safety net anywhere else in the world.
The current administration isn’t stupid. They know how get their opponents to freak out and say stupid things, and every stupid thing they say outweighs 100 reasonable things.
Be careful: work requirements are a mine field of helpfulness, good governance, and cruelty.
A half-century of struggle in other industrialized western nations happened precisely because of this kind of thing. And in the 50s and 60s and 70s ... because of that -- and because of fear of contagion from the USSR -- most countries put in universal health care systems of various forms which eliminated the need for means testing and "charity" type medical care in the first place and defined quality health care as universal available.
Time for that struggle again.
> Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn’t Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements
Is that the price of the “right” people being exempted? Then sure.
Also simply having HIV doesn’t mean you’re terminally ill.
With treatment they might be able to live, work and recover. That is what the article is saying. Without insurance people die from cancer. With insurance some people do not die. If we cut their insurance due to more red tape, we're condemning those to death.
People who are not exempt can meet the work requirements through a variety of different activities from part-time work earning $580/month, or 80 hours through a combination of part-time work, volunteer work, and care giving to dependents.
https://www.chcs.org/resource/a-summary-of-national-medicaid...
Is someone that is 30 years old, HIV positive, and on antiretrovirals with a low viral load considered a terminal diagnosis? HIV may end their life in 40 years but they’re clearly capable of working.
The article does say “medically frail” people are exempted, so Stage 4 pancreatic cancer would be enough to exempt someone from the rules, but where the line is drawn does matter.
HN votes are a not designed to be "agree/disagree", they supposed to mark interesting comments that spark curiosity, even if I disagree with them. Your comment is the only one like that here.
Regardless, I don't think the GP comment was particularly interesting or insightful. First they complain the article is rage bait, and then end the comment with rage bait of their own. (Way to anchor "terminally ill person" as "junkie".)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...
Putting that aside, is the estimated terminal deadline a good measure for subsidy qualification...ie I'm dead in 5 years from my conditions, so when should I be exempt from the work requirement?