Trump Regime: We are deporting all farm workers, and making people on Medicaid work in fields instead

[Wiz Imp]

18. She's just pulling that 34 million figure out of her ass.

As of March 2025, 71,258,215 were enrolled in Medicaid. Approximately 42% of Medicaid beneficiaries are adults, 36% are children, 10% are disabled, and 10% are age 65 or older. So if we remove the disabled, children & elderly from the total, we get just over 31,000,000 "able bodied" adults. But approximately 64% of adult, non disabled Medicaid beneficiaries are currently employed (most of them with full time jobs). That means at most, 11,000,000 so called "able bodied" adults on Medicare who don't currently have a job.

But that doesn't give any clue as to why they aren't currently employed. A significant number of Medicaid recipients are responsible for the care of children or other family members. Many additional individuals are unable to work due to health conditions. Some Medicaid recipients are enrolled in educational programs. Some other individuals may be between jobs or facing other barriers to employment, such as lack of transportation or childcare. Ultimately, there are very few "able bodied" adults on Medicaid who don't have a job but are in situation where they actually could work. This is why work requirements for Medicaid and other programs in the past have always proven disastrous - ending up costing even more money.

Data at these links:
https://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid/program-information/medicaid-and-chip-enrollment-data/report-highlights
https://www.aha.org/fact-sheets/2025-02-07-fact-sheet-medicaid
https://www.healthcaredive.com/news/nearly-two-thirds-medicaid-beneficiaries-employed-work-requirements-kff/739596/
https://healthlaw.org/top-10-reasons-why-work-requirements-are-bad-for-medicaid/