The Chamber’s Republican speaker says that his party will achieve its deeply unpopular Medicaid abbreviations through the “moral component” to protect manhood.
Orarator Mike Johnson continued to “face the nation” on Sunday and defended the passage of the Chamber of a bill that institutes massive cuts – a potential $ 880 billion in 10 years – on Medicaid, program 1 in 5 Americans relying, claiming that there are no cuts. Rather, he said, the new Republicans’ new working requirements are intended to end “fraud, waste and abuse” by forcing “workers with labor, young men” to get a job.
In the interview, Johnson answered a question about the potential widespread loss of health care, including tens of thousands of people who lose to lose health care in his home country, unjustifiably insisting that the only people who relate to be affected by GOP’s proposals are “capable workers, many of whom they refuse to play.
“You are cheating on the system,” the spokesman said at one point. “And no one in the country believes that this is right. So there is a moral component to what we do. And when you make young men work, it is good for them, it is good for their dignity, it is good for their own value and is good for the community in which they live.”
Even if a person accepts Johnson as a gospel proposal that American politicians should access the individual to the contingent of healthcare on their “dignity” or “own value”, his framing of that around young men may corresponds to the literal definition of sexism.
But more significant, the speaker and the Trump administration rely on gloomy logic to make their argument for the job requirements. Los Angeles Times Michael Hilzic’s columnist recently explained how GOP’s rhetoric for an alleged crisis of unemployed men, pressing the Medicaid system, is rooted in years of propaganda that depicted people who rely on such programs as leeches – although true data tell a different story.
Hilkic wrote:
Medicaid work rules are a misconception product for Medicaid participants, which is that they are unemployment, unemployed. However, according to the census, 44% of Medicaid recipients worked full -time in 2023 and 20% worked part -time. An additional 12% do not work as they care for family at home, 10% are sick or disabled, 6% are students, and 4% are retired. Of the other 4%, half cannot find a job, and the remaining 2% did not give a reason.
In other words, the greater part of the people receiving Medicaid already Work.
Assessment of the non -partisan budget budget found that the proposed cuts could leave at least 8.6 million people without health care until 2034.S And that seems to be at least part Of the reason, 76% of Americans are opposed to major Medicaid abbreviations, according to the Kaiser Foundation poll held in April.
But Republican MPs, many of whom are workers with white collars who have spent years, receiving extensive taxpayers, lined with health care through their state jobs, try to convince American men that the path to true courage is achieved only by fighting.
This manipulative politician who teaches that true courage means suffering is a major reason to be interested in the chronicity of what I have come to call “Maga Masculinitity” in the last year or so. Last year, I released a series of hypermasculism in the conservative movement, which focuses on podcares and political figures that seem to use the self -confidence of some men and the eternal sense of victim to achieve conservative values.
This publication I wrote about how hypermascaline ideals of Mag’s movement threaten the health of men seems to be quite appropriate in the light of Johnson’s focus on what he calls “capable” young men like waste and fraud when it comes to Medicaid.
For more information on how Magi movement is an armed courage, check out my appearance in MSNBC with Alex Vit last month, which focuses strongly on the topic:
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