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Why? Why do they need to be in the workforce? I pay taxes so people like that stay out of the workforce!
If they're on Medicaid there's a reason for that. Why TF should we be making them work? Just "because"?
Not everyone is meant to work! Some people are born to be wards of the state. Pretending people like this don't exist is insanity.
Other people get sick or have accidents that make them wards of the state. That's what "the system" is for!
Also, let's not pretend that this doesn't cost much. The elderly, and people on permanent disability are the most expensive to care for. That's why the Trump administration wants to kick them off... Because for each person that actually needs this vital government service that they kick off, they can save something like $100,000-130,000 (yes, that's the real figure... It's from Kaiser Family Foundation data).
This is why it wouldn't really cost that much to move everyone off private health insurance and into a socialized program (e.g. Medicare for all or similar proposals). Because we're already paying for the most expensive people/illnesses, tacking on the remaining healthy population would only add a marginal amount to the total cost and save taxpayers enormous amounts of money (compared to the amounts they're currently paying for health insurance).