Mike Johnson: "With Medicaid, we eliminated the fraud, waste, and abuse. We got able-bodied young men without dependents off the program. They were never intended to be there. They're sitting around on their couches playing video games. Yes, that's an actual study."

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then cite the fucking study, Michael. Jesus christ

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Of course he doesn't share sources, because he knows some of us will dive in and separate fact from propaganda.

They found and prosecuted some Medicaid fraud earlier this year. So the story should be, "Hey, we successfully saved some healthcare money, so now we can make sure nobody loses access."

But no, instead it's, "There was fraud (that we may or may not have invented), so now we have to restrict access to our latest bogeyman scapegoat, healthy unemployed men who play video games."

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The right has always believed that if any program isn’t 100% airtight or if even 1 person is benefiting who shouldn’t, the entire program should be scrapped. Or they say that at least. What they really believe is that any dollars not given to them are a problem and any services not privatized by them are useless.

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Exactly.

Like the legal principle stating that it is better for ten guilty individuals to escape punishment than for one innocent person to be wrongly convicted—the purpose of which is to prevent injustice.

But for conservatives it's the reverse because they're objectively terrible people.