Federal Medicaid work requirements are being implemented as part of President Trumpโs so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, a budget and spending bill which is also cutting nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaidโs budget over the next decade.
Under the interim final rule, people with certain conditions who are already on Medicaid will no longer be automatically considered โmedically frail,โ a classification that exempts them from work requirements; they must provide further proof, beyond their diagnosis, that they are โgreatly impairedโ from working. The new federal rule is notably stricter than what was implemented in Nebraska, a GOP-dominated state that voluntarily enacted work requirements eight months before the deadlineโbut which at least retained a list of conditions considered automatically exempt from work requirements for those on Medicaid.
While the federal interim rule is harsh, it is not final: there is a 60-day public comment period, after which states have until the end of the calendar year to implement (or, in Nebraskaโs case, modify) their Medicaid work requirements.
โItโs going to be very costly in terms of time as well as money,โ Wagner said, โand, realistically, states are not going to be able to do this accurately by January 1.โ
There is no way to implement Medicaid work requirements without disabled and chronically ill people losing their access to the program, despite the claims of Republican politicians like House Speaker Mike Johnson (RโLa.).
โItโs hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point,โ Boulder economics professor Chloe East said. โAdding work requirements to Medicaid is part of a massive shift in our safety net in this country under this administration to make it as small and hard to access as possible.โ
It sure looks like he got a few of those 30 seconds of happiness hanging out with a sex offender before he told everyone Epstein was no big deal without disclosing it!!
I can't say I have ever read David Brooks. I think I probably have, but nothing really stuck with me.
I couldn't have said what might be annoying about him until I got to the part of Dok's story where he cites to the Newark Airport story. Yeah, I remember that. Brooks showed himself to be almost infuriatingly clueless.
I subscribe to the NYT, but didn't know that Brooks had retired from the paper, because, as is the case for many Times readers, you just stopped reading him years ago.
Just like Franรงois Duvalier, Augusto Pinoche, Ferdinand Marcos, and others, our orange orc is going to hold to power. That ballroom is for nobody else. No plans to leave the WH ever.
To deal with what a moral philosopher deals with, though, you actually have to, um, be a moral philosopher. Which takes years of specialized training. We already have plenty of excellent moral philosophers.
in the 1980s at an unnamed university in New England,
the professor of ethics, who had been carrying on with the wife of the professor of aesthetics, who in turn had been carrying on with the wife of the professor of ethics
divorced his wife and married his lover, as did the professor of aesthetics
โYeah, itโs not hate; itโs just deep, abiding irritation.โ
I would have to care a lot more about him to hate him.
Heโs not a despicable character like Weiss or Taibbi, just tedious.
(I have to admit, though, that I admired him briefly when he got verklempt at Bidenโs inauguration because he, like myself and so many others, thought that the Giant Orange Pervert was gone forever.)
More on the current Medicaid debacle...
๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ก๐ข๐ญ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ข๐ ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ค ๐๐๐ช๐ฎ๐ข๐ซ๐๐ฆ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ฌ ๐๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐
โ๐ผ๐กโ๐ โ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ก ๐ก๐ ๐กโ๐๐๐ ๐กโ๐๐ก ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐ข๐๐๐ก๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ฆ ๐๐ ๐กโ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ก.โ
Federal Medicaid work requirements are being implemented as part of President Trumpโs so-called One Big Beautiful Bill, a budget and spending bill which is also cutting nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaidโs budget over the next decade.
Under the interim final rule, people with certain conditions who are already on Medicaid will no longer be automatically considered โmedically frail,โ a classification that exempts them from work requirements; they must provide further proof, beyond their diagnosis, that they are โgreatly impairedโ from working. The new federal rule is notably stricter than what was implemented in Nebraska, a GOP-dominated state that voluntarily enacted work requirements eight months before the deadlineโbut which at least retained a list of conditions considered automatically exempt from work requirements for those on Medicaid.
While the federal interim rule is harsh, it is not final: there is a 60-day public comment period, after which states have until the end of the calendar year to implement (or, in Nebraskaโs case, modify) their Medicaid work requirements.
โItโs going to be very costly in terms of time as well as money,โ Wagner said, โand, realistically, states are not going to be able to do this accurately by January 1.โ
There is no way to implement Medicaid work requirements without disabled and chronically ill people losing their access to the program, despite the claims of Republican politicians like House Speaker Mike Johnson (RโLa.).
โItโs hard not to think that the cruelty of the policy is the point,โ Boulder economics professor Chloe East said. โAdding work requirements to Medicaid is part of a massive shift in our safety net in this country under this administration to make it as small and hard to access as possible.โ
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/06/hhs-medicaid-work-requirements-health-care-federal-rule/
It sure looks like he got a few of those 30 seconds of happiness hanging out with a sex offender before he told everyone Epstein was no big deal without disclosing it!!
David Brooks is a dweeb. A lightweight.
I can't say I have ever read David Brooks. I think I probably have, but nothing really stuck with me.
I couldn't have said what might be annoying about him until I got to the part of Dok's story where he cites to the Newark Airport story. Yeah, I remember that. Brooks showed himself to be almost infuriatingly clueless.
David Brooks is the Bill Maher of William Bennetts.
I subscribe to the NYT, but didn't know that Brooks had retired from the paper, because, as is the case for many Times readers, you just stopped reading him years ago.
Even thinking about that man makes me want to scour the inside of my eyeballs with bleach.
Just like Franรงois Duvalier, Augusto Pinoche, Ferdinand Marcos, and others, our orange orc is going to hold to power. That ballroom is for nobody else. No plans to leave the WH ever.
He can dream whatever he wants. We don't have to accept it.
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To deal with what a moral philosopher deals with, though, you actually have to, um, be a moral philosopher. Which takes years of specialized training. We already have plenty of excellent moral philosophers.
Willing to bet Brooks' current wife hires the interns now.
Why do these guys keep failing upward? A woman of comparable mediocrity wouldnโt be allowed to succeed. Et tu, The Atlantic?
here is a true story
in the 1980s at an unnamed university in New England,
the professor of ethics, who had been carrying on with the wife of the professor of aesthetics, who in turn had been carrying on with the wife of the professor of ethics
divorced his wife and married his lover, as did the professor of aesthetics
wheeeeeeeeee!
I'm waiting for the part with the surprisingly well-endowed anesthesiologist
elle oh elle.
Sounds like the set up to a logic puzzle.
โYeah, itโs not hate; itโs just deep, abiding irritation.โ
I would have to care a lot more about him to hate him.
Heโs not a despicable character like Weiss or Taibbi, just tedious.
(I have to admit, though, that I admired him briefly when he got verklempt at Bidenโs inauguration because he, like myself and so many others, thought that the Giant Orange Pervert was gone forever.)
"Sometimes a cheese sandwich really hits the spot"
By David Brooks
Lead singer Levi Stubbs of the Four Tops was born on this day in 1936. Here's their recording of "Standing In The Shadows Of Love" from 1966:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ahs5_CrbC0
And here's the group in 1967 performing "Bernadette":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJ0_gbofahM
I will go to those links and watch and listen. I've always liked "Bernadette."
Countdown to Douthat boinking his intern and leaving his wife. But in a moral philosophical way of course.
Didn't he move to Hungary because the US was too woke? Or am I getting him mixed up with some other dipshit?
Other dipshit I think. Douthat has his little perch at the NYT where he is a very, very serious person.
I can't tell these dipshits apart anymore, and I no longer wish to expend the energy to google them and figure it out
Fair.