This is a long-standing gaslighting trope from Republicans: "protecting vulnerable people" is always used to describe cutting programs so only the very, very poorest still get them (and often they only get them if they've managed to navigate a set of administrative burdens purportedly put up to stop fraud that does no such thing). Thank you for this clear piece of writing.
Thanks, Amy. Totally agree: Brian Blase at the Paragon Institute is reviving Republican golden oldies and feeding them to Freedom Caucus stalwarts, who are lapping them up. Commanded by Trump to cut billions from Medicaid, leadership has adopted the party line as well. Denigrating and degrading benefits because the beneficiaries are "able-bodied" is not only a Republican oldie but goes back centuries, as the Margot Sanger-Katz piece I've linked to above (on the term "able-bodied") very *ably* explains.
This is despicable.
This is a long-standing gaslighting trope from Republicans: "protecting vulnerable people" is always used to describe cutting programs so only the very, very poorest still get them (and often they only get them if they've managed to navigate a set of administrative burdens purportedly put up to stop fraud that does no such thing). Thank you for this clear piece of writing.
Thanks, Amy. Totally agree: Brian Blase at the Paragon Institute is reviving Republican golden oldies and feeding them to Freedom Caucus stalwarts, who are lapping them up. Commanded by Trump to cut billions from Medicaid, leadership has adopted the party line as well. Denigrating and degrading benefits because the beneficiaries are "able-bodied" is not only a Republican oldie but goes back centuries, as the Margot Sanger-Katz piece I've linked to above (on the term "able-bodied") very *ably* explains.