Pressed on this concern by local reporters, the director of the state’s Department of Health Services Cindy Gillespie said that by requiring low-income Arkansas to submit their information online, the state is in fact helping them improve their technological skills.
Holy fucking shit, the nerve of that guy.
It’s like saying we’re shooting everyone to improve their bullet tolerance.
So if you're injured and lose your job because of it, now you can't get healthcare either. Nice going, you horrible people.
>One widely criticized aspect of Arkansas’ new rules is that everyone enrolled in Medicaid has to document their work hours through
an online portal created by the state — with no option to submit
information in person, over the by phone, or by mail.
>Arkansas has the second-lowest rate of home internet access in the nation, only slightly above Mississippi.
Nice
reminds me of that british case where they revoked benefits to a woman with cerbal palsy saying she had gotten better.
like these programs always inevitably seem to hire either the dumbest or most fanatical people
"Sorry, you haven't worked so we're pulling your medicaid benefits, why look at you, you just lay around all day anyways!"
"I'm a quadrapolegic."
"your religion is not medicaids problem!"
Less that, more 'If you're poor, fuck you'. Just another case of the GOP skullfucking poor people to enrich themselves in some manner.
They do this all of the time with my brother, they require medical checkups frequently.
As if you can suddenly be cured of cerbal palsy
I don't really want to support this bill, but I also don't think I can attack it apart from the stupid online-only interaction with their system. I live in Arkansas and it's pretty fucking scary how much people are leaving their jobs and living on the government staying high on meth and other hard drugs all day. It's something that I witness just about everywhere I go in this god forsaken state. This place is in dire need of volunteers in homeless shelters and elsewhere as well. Those hours shouldn't be hard to rack up if you can't manage to get 80 real work hours a month.
How's that applicable here?
"Non-disabled work requirement" If you get disabled you're good. If you lose your job, there's always volunteering somewhere to keep benefits.
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oh ya, my brother has a life long condition, yet medicaid requires him to do a comprehensive doctors checkup every year to renew his coverage, and the process takes like 5 months to get approval
"Disabled" is determined by an adjudicator and doctor, and if denied a claimant can request a reconsideration in which they'll have a different adjudicator and doctor assigned to their case. I don't share in the mentality that the people working in these offices actively look for ways to fuck people over if they're truly unable to work to the full extent of the average human.
There's a decently clear definition on Arkansas's DDSSA page.
I understand this concern, coming from a drug-addled area with no job opportunities myself, but I don't think that disadvantaging those people even further is the right way to go. If anything, it'll drive them even further into a pit of self-destructiveness.
and that's exactly why that stipulation was included in the first place. gotta cut the amount of dollars that are wasted on needy sick people who have no other way of accessing medical care, so that deficits stay under control without any need to raise taxes on corporations or wealthy citizens (god forbid).
it’s far easier to ‘live on the government’ (frankly who cares) over here than it is in the USA, and any worsening of programs like this only succeeds in making the poor and vulnerable more destitute. I dread to think how they have it in the old US of A.
kinda goes back to my first point though, these eligibility programs seemingly always get staffed up with people who have no medical training, and are put into a position that encourages them to deny coverage while making rulings on medical conditions.
You think that people leave their jobs to take meth? What?
I think people lose their jobs to meth, but don't care because of meth.
Well, I don't think that. I know it as roughly half of my neighbors are examples. I understand your skepticism, because it's hard to picture such a scenario until it's quite literally in your backyard.
The adjudicator maybe, but IIRC they do bring in an independent doctor (real MDs, not just some certification holder) for each case and ultimately they end up giving the yea or nay.
I agree, and doubly so in an ass-backwards state like Arkansas. But at the same time, it's a half-time work requirement that doesn't even require professional employment. I could go right now if I felt like it and volunteer at the homeless shelter that's a couple streets down from my house and I'd be all clear. The help here is so rare they could never turn it down. Given that it's a requirement for people of able body and mind, I don't personally see that as an unreasonable condition.
If it was for welfare, saying "yeah if you want welfare you need to at least spend half time volunteering somewhere if for no other reason than keeping you from falling into a downward spiral of physical depression," and they were clear and honest about determining who was and wasn't disabled, I think I'd be for it.
But it's not about welfare, it's about health care. Health care is something you shouldn't fuck with, and which in this country is in a bad enough state already without adding on additional requirements. That doesn't even mention the various other ways they're fucking it up like requiring internet access.
I hope Arkansas has a lot of public libraries, but I somehow suspect they'll have the lowest number in the nation as well.
I tried that on myself... only thrice though
didn't work
Not an accident.
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