The wildly unlikeable Vice President JD Vance returned to his dwelling state of Ohio on Monday, talking at a metal plant in Canton. When requested concerning the “hundreds of thousands of Ohioans” whose Medicaid protection is in jeopardy on account of President Donald Trump’s “One Big, Beautiful Bill,” Vance merely lied.
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“Well, what I’d say to those Ohioans is one: Don’t believe every false media report that you’ve heard because our explicit goal in the Trump administration is to protect people’s health care, so long as they’re working hard, playing by the rules,” he claimed.
He then went on to make a false assertion about who will lose their Medicaid.
“Now, there have been a lot of lies out there. And if, for example, you’re an able-bodied person and you’re searching for work, you still got access to Medicaid. If you’re a single mom and you need access to that health care to make sure your kids can go see a doctor, you’re still going to have access to that Medicaid,” Vance stated. “Who’s not going to have entry to that Medicaid is people who find themselves in the USA illegally and individuals who refuse to even search for a job.”
In the meantime, an evaluation from the Ohio-based Heart for Neighborhood Options discovered that as much as 450,000 Ohio residents are liable to shedding their medical health insurance as soon as the GOP’s Medicaid work requirement waiver takes impact.
The coverage resembles Arkansas’ failed 2018-2019 experiment, which not solely failed to spice up employment but additionally elevated pink tape, inflicting greater than 18,000 folks to lose their medical health insurance.
The conservative fable that hundreds of thousands of individuals dwell comfortably by lazily subsisting off of meager entitlements has been debunked repeatedly. However now the Trump administration is pushing a brand new fable: that residents will work low-wage jobs—vacant as a result of mass deportations of immigrant employees—in change for the poor and sometimes inaccessible medical health insurance out there to farmworkers.
We’ll see how that works out.
