What does that have to do with the fact that money is fungible?
Oh, well, I sure don’t see Johnson or Thune or Republicans bothered or worried about it, and they are the majority. You keep going on and on about the Democrats like a broken record, yet you won’t hold those Republican’s feet to the fire. Why is that?
Fungibility involves moving money from one use to another, or substituting one source of money for another. Government Appropriations Bills should be written to prevent that. If N dollars are appropriated for a specific purpose it is usually illegal to use it for another.
OK. I give up. (frustration, not acceptance.)
And the ways it's going down that I know of are ways that it should go down.
No. It means that a dollar is a dollar no matter it’s source.
Why should the rural health care system go down? Not meant in that it’s cost go down but it goes down like “ down and out”?
Yeah, this is like a car thief telling you resisting might get your fender scratched.
Because the CR is only valid until sometime in November. There's plenty of time for negotiation without shutting down a part of the government, while everything ticks along at the same rate as yesterday.
I said that Medicaid should go down in some ways. I realize now that this is going nowhere, since libs think any amount that they can call "health care" isn't to be touched by anyone, ever.
LOL. That’s not an answer to what I asked you. This isn’t about the Democrats, as much as you want it to be. It’s squarely on the shoulders of Republicans. What makes you think that the Republican leadership is going to negotiate anything?
You can always reform it to stream line and make it cost less.
I don't want it to be at all.
"Negotiate" doesn't mean "capitulate." There is no reason to extend ACA provisions that were made to deal with Covid. There is no reason to allow free medical care to illegal aliens. There is no reason to provide free Medicaid to people who could work or at least prepare themselves to work. And there is no reason to negotiate to protect Schumer's job.
Republicans are "damaging access" to people that Medicaid is not intended for. They are "damaging access" to people who are able to do things for themselves but aren't, such as working at least half-time or getting themselves ready to work. Republicans are "damaging access" to illegal aliens.
Of course you do. Every post you’ve made in this thread is Dems this, Schumer and Jeffries that, and nothing about the Republicans except that you believe whatever comes out of Mike Johnson’s mouth on this subject.
Oh, by all means, the Republicans don’t dare give in on anything or else it’s capitulation. Typical Republican hubris.
I wasn’t aware that Covid had been completely eradicated.
Illegal aliens or immigrants do not get free medical care. Where are you getting that erroneous information?
www.newsweek.com
Good grief, a typical Republican talking point. Medicaid eligibility is based on Modified Adjusted Gross Income. Not some big government agency that judges whether someone can work or not. Who do you think is going to act as some kind of judge here?
There it is, yet again, you pointing at Schumer. That’s why your posts can’t be taken seriously here.
One of the hold-ups at the moment is that Dems want illegal aliens to qualify for Medicaid.
No, not everything. In fact, I didn't even pay attention to anything he said after the part about the $50 billion the Dems want to take back.
The pandemic was declared over a few years ago. Emergency spending is no longer necessary. If there's still some specific medical need it should be paid for. But Dems just want to extend ACA benefits that they has scheduled to run out this year.
I know they don't. Democrats want them to.
Eligibility was based always on income and disability status, so the same people who judged that previously can judge it now. In addition to disability, other non-working people that are now eligible are, students, people in work training and some other non-working categories I forget right now. And they only have to be doing it for 20 hours a week.
If you don't think that kind of stuff is a reality in D.C., I know where there's a bridge.....
No, I never vote Democrat.
Yeah… I don’t think so. In post #59, you linked a video of Johnson yapping and saying the very things you are repeating here over and over, accusing Schumer and Jeffries of being the ones to shut down the government. Like heck you didn’t pay any attention…
You know what else wasn’t necessary? Making the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent. Bad policy when enacted, worse and more expensive policy now in 2025 when they were supposed to sunset. Oh, but the GOP did it anyway. What’s a few trillion dollars more in the national deficit?
No. That’s patently false, and it’s a disingenuous claim to make.
Income and disability statuses are completely different than the government making some arbitrary determination as to who can or should work. How about you? Retirement isn’t any excuse to not be working instead of collecting Social Security and Medicare benefits. Leave it up to the Republicans, and you may find yourself not so retired after all.
Like you would know. All you’re doing is repeating the false crap that Mike Johnson is putting out as an excuse for the Republicans not getting the job done. Just like he did in that video clip you posted.
I linked a video of Johnson's comment about the $50 billion issue. I don't know how to edit a video to remove the rest. Do you?
Tax revenue to the government went UP after the 2017 tax rate cuts. The deficits are a spending problem, not a revenue problem.
If the only criteria is that someone "could use it," maybe we should just make it free, right? But the ACA subsidies were intended to help people out of work by the pandemic, something the Dems in Congress voted to end this year. Were they wrong?
It isn't. Dems have a proposal that would let the states pay for illegal aliens and thne get the money back from the Federal government. They don't boast about it, but that's their plan.
What has happened is that additional reasons to be out of work have been added. Besides having a disability that keeps someone from working,, being in a work training program for 20 hours a week satisfies the "work" requirement. So does being in school, doing community service or a combination of them that adds up to 80 hours per month.
Dems have been using that old lie as long as there has been Social Security. It's time to retire it.
Didn't you see the clip of AOC inviting Republicans to come negotiate with her, directly, in her office? Pelosi had to tell the press that AOC is not in charge.
Premiums would go up as the result of ending the special subsidies that were enacted to help people who lost their jobs due to the Covid pandemic. Those folks have gone back to work, and Democrats voted to end the extra subsidy at the end of this year. Republicans merely agreed with them. Now the Dems have changed their minds.
None of this has anything to do with the pandemic, nor have the Dems “changed their minds” about wanting to keep premium costs down (just as the GOP has never changed its mind about wanting to drive people’s premium costs up).