The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are in Medicaid
A republican senator invoked a biblical mandate to work, as he simultaneously defended GOP’s planned cuts to Medicaid that could be started More than 10 million people Health insurance.
When Western Virginia Justica Jim Justice was asked about the Senate Republicans Newly released portion Of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children over 14 years old to work for Medicaid, he said: “Biblically, we are supposed to work.”
“We have taken the dignity and hope and belief of many people where they have no hope, they think they cannot.”
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Justice, which inherited a coal mining business from his father in 1993 and was a billionaire, presides over a state in which about 29% of residents are in Medicaid, 62% of whom work part -time or full -time.
Spoke the first year senator The independentwho questioned Trump’s “great and beautiful bill”, which would force states to institut the work requirements to access Medicaid. The expense bill has disagreed between conservative legislators, but it is expected to happen in early July.
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During Trump’s first term, Medicare and Medicaid services centers gave states certain freedoms to experiment with the work requirements. The programs were failures, causing thousands to be launched in health coverage without any discernible impact on employment. He later ruled to be illegal in a federal court.
The updated proposals of the bill of 2025 are intended to go further, however, applying the requirements of work to parents of children over 14 years. If passed, these requirements would affect up to almost 400,000 -Americans.
Chip Kahn, the CEO and President of the Federation of American Hospitals, said early this week that the additions of the Senate into the healthcare part of the bill worsened.
“Rural communities across the country will be the most successful, and the struggle hospitals forced to face difficult decisions about which services should be cut,” he said. “It is imperative that the senators deviate from this text and reject their deepening of the cuts of the house already on the table.”
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