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New Medicaid work rules likely to hit middle-aged adults hard (www.cbsnews.com)

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[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

This is literally why I'm trying to get on disability this year, because this will absolutely fuck me as a mid-forties guy with cancer with treatment that costs $18k a month without insurance and who can no longer do a lot of the physical labor jobs I used to do. Also, I was diagnosed shortly after completing a degree, so I never actually got a chance to put my degree to use and now I'm four years past getting my degree and there's no way I could get a job with proper insurance coverage that would cover this treatment without putting me deep into debt.

But I guess I'm just a 29 year old playing video games and trying to scam the government and having fucking cancer is just a weak excuse or something.