Trump's agriculture secretary doubles down on suggestion people should work on farms to avoid losing Medicaid

[AZJonnie]

38. I assumed the assertion was the authors language, and it was imprecise wrt what the law says

This is not to take issue with your overall point, which seems to be that these people are not to be trusted, and based on their other actions it's logical to suspect in practice, they'll just pick and choose "the right people" to exempt, regardless of how the law may be worded.

Implementation of this cruelty could also end up costing taxpayers more to monitor and track 10's of millions of people's eligibility status than it would to just cover everyone. In fact I remember some years ago when FL had the idea to drug test everyone for eligibility for some program, and then backed away from it cause it cost more than it saved. A large majority of these RW asshole's ideas for how to change this country are fucking stupid when you get down to it