The rapporteur of the Republican Chamber says his party will reach its very unpopular Medicaid’s incisions through the “moral” protection of masculinity.
Speaker Mike Johnson went to “encounter a nation” on Sunday and defended the palace bill, where a huge reduction could be made in 10 years – potentially $ 880 billion – Medicaid, 1 of 5 Americans relying on, claiming that there are no reductions. He said new Republican requirements are for “fraud, waste and abuse”, forcing “working employees, young men” to get a job.
In an interview, Johnson answered the question of possible widespread health care, including tens of thousands of people who lose health care in his native country, unjustifiably demanding the only people affecting the GS offers, are “working employees who many refuse to work because they play the system.”
“You are deceiving the system,” the speaker said at one time. “And no one in the country believes it is right. So there is a moral component for what we do. And when you make young men work, it is useful to them, it is good for their dignity, it is good for their self -esteem and is good for the community where they live.”
Even if a person follows the Gospel Johnson’s proposal that US policy makers should provide a person with access to health care, taking into account their “dignity” or “self -esteem”, its frameworks around these are young men, of course, consistent with the literal definition of sexism.
But basically, the speaker and Trump’s administration rely on gloomy logic to make its arguments regarding job requirements. Los Angeles Times journalist Michael Hiltzik recently explained how GOP rhetoric about the alleged crisis of unemployed men, diving off the Medicaid system, is based on a year of propaganda depicting people who rely on programs like that, even if true data tells a different story.
Hiltzik wrote:
Medicaid’s work rules are a misconception of Medicaid participants, that is that they are employed by unemployed. According to census data, 44% of Medicaid recipients worked full -time 2023 and 20% worked part -time. The additional 12% did not work because the family took care of the family, 10% was ill or disabled, 6% were students and 4% retired. Of the remaining 4%, the half could not find a job, and the remaining 2% did not give a reason.
In other words, most people receiving Medicaid are already Work.
The estimate of the Bureau of Non -Party Congress found that the proposed reductions to 2034 were proposed. Can leave at least 8.6 million people without health care; And it seems to be at least part Based on April A survey of the Kaiser Family Foundation, 76% of Americans contradicts major Medicaid reduction.
However, Republican lawmakers, many of whom are white workers who have spent a year, after receiving taxpayers’ subsidized health care through their government work, tried to convince American men that the path to true masculinity is only achieved through March-NEMS,
This manipulative policy, which teaches that true masculinity means suffering is the main reason I have been interested in the chronization of what I have come to call “Maga masculinity” in recent years. Last year, I released a series of hypermoscience in a conservative movement, where the focus was on podcasters and political actors who seem to seek to use some male self -esteem and eternal feeling of victim to promote conservative values.
This post I wrote about how the Maga Movement HyperMascular ideals are threatening men’s health seems quite relevant, given Johnson’s attention to what he calls “working” young men as waste and fraud when it relates to Medicaid.
To learn more about how the Maga movement is armed in masculinity, review my show MSNBC with Alex Witt, who focused on topic:
This article was originally published in msnbc.com