Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 01162018 20180116 :

Transcripts For CSPAN Washington Journal 01162018 20180116

And bloomberg congressional reporter. Alphonso aguilar talks about immigration policies and the latest push for puerto rican statehood. Closedn capitol hill, a door house until this meeting. Eaturing steve bannon testimony is part of the panels look into it russias activity in the 2016 election. All of this goes along as a threeday test as it is three days until a Government Shutdown. It is generally 16th and this is the washington journal. The Trump Administration will allow states to impose supporters back to move. Supporters of back the move. Is legally the move and morally unconscionable. What do you think of these rules for medicaid recipients when it comes to work . Do you think it will hurt them or help them . This is how you can let us know if you agree . Disagree for medicaid recipients, you can tell us your story. You can always treat us that cspan wj. Understand these new rules by the Trump Administration is nathaniel. Xel. Athaniel we could you walk through the intent of these new rules are and who will be under them. Theer the end guest intent is to target the newly eligible medicaid people. It is not going to be the elderly or the disabled. It is going to be targeted at the ablebodied people. Who are eligible for medicaid right now. Host who qualifies as ablebodied . Guest that is up to every state to determine. States can determine who is ablebodied and was not. Generally speaking, if youre pregnantly, disabled, and not under the age of 16, you qualify as ablebodied. Under this guidance from the government, you, if the state decides to increment implement this, you will have to do some sort of work, Community Engagement activity for however long the state decides you want to do it in order to be eligible. This is something new under the Trump Administration . Could other administrations applied the same standard . Guest this is brandnew. This is something very unique to the Trump Administration. The idea of working for benefit and requiring you need to be selfsufficient to get the benefits provided by the government is a not government is not a unique idea, but the Trump Administration is the only one that granted states the ability to require medicaid beneficiaries to work. Previously under medicaid, if you are eligible, you are eligible for medicaid. There were some income requirements and its good that was it. No other states have done this before. This is something that is brandnew. Host if the burning goes to the states, how have states responded . Guest so far, there are 10 states right now that have waivers pending. Day thatis the first got theirs approved last week. They are going to be the test case. They got this waiver approved. So, they are the first ones, they are the guinea pigs, but they seem to be confident that other states will follow. As far as the states that have responded, how many would you qualify as red states . Guest mostly all of them are red states so far. There are nine states that have required and they all all but one have a republican governor. Host for the critics, what have they said about the move . Are there legal challenges . Guest nobody has sued yet. That is pending. , the are certain groups National Health law program, they are ready to sue. There will be legal challenges. They can basically say this is not in the nature of the Medicaid Program, that the idea of medicaid is to make sure that everybody gets coverage. That is the requirement of medicaid. They are saying this policy goes against that. The Nathaniel Weixel is other types of social net programs . Guest their already artwork requirements on other sort of social net programs. There are still requirements right now. They are not looking to others in that respect. Medicaid is one of the last ones that you would have to an openended social benefits. There are work requirements. T nathaniel a Nathaniel Weixel talking about these requirements. Thank you for your time. Guest thank you. What dow your chance, you think about this, the application by the Trump Administration . Is this something you agree with . Tell us why. Noyou say yes, or if you say. We have set aside a special line for medicaid recipients. You can give your perspective. Chris will be first up. Powder springs, georgia. Says he agrees with it. Good morning. Well, when you consider the cost of medicaid going through the roof, it just makes sense. Especially when i have someone in my family that is setting around collecting a check, gotbodied, left a job approved for disability and basically is doing nothing with their life. There are people like that that can work and they should be working. Host in your relatives case, that is the case. He is not medically unable to work our list or at least do some kind of work otherwise teco caller correct. Host lets hear from someone on the no line. Caller good morning. I will really want to complement the reporter from the hill. I am an added follower of the hill and they do an excellent job in keeping people posted. This. Pposed to i see it being another trump to offer tax breaks to the rich. This is once again depriving the poor for the benefit of the rich. I find it obscene. I know people on medicaid, as well. I can tell you that a great many of them of the people i know they are not taking it. The whole issue of medicaid was to make Health Care Available to the poor. To require 20 hours just consider this, 20 hours, that is happy work week that one would provide in order for to qualify for medicare. That is 20 hours a week. Let us presume that we are talking about being paid at a minimum wage rate and the minimum wage is anywhere from three dollars to five dollars to seven dollars to 10 depending on the state. We are talking about someone , ifng essentially, at least it is four dollars an hour in kentucky, we are talking about somebody paying 80 a week or 320 a month for their insurance. Consider that. For the fact host lets go to don in scranton, pennsylvania. Caller good morning. I know a few people at the first caller who are collecting, and i think it is a good idea to do it. It reminds me of my dad used to talk about the old the bpa, he had to work to get your checks instead of sitting home and doing nothing. I have nothing else to say about it but i think it is the right thing for everybody. Our deficit is so high. It can really help the deficit. Host the previous caller was talking about the amount of hours that would be required in the wage. Required and the wage. I think they should work i dont know though hours i dont know the hours. The government would have to break it down. They should have to work, no matter what. It is only fair. Everybody should have to work if they can. If they cant, that is a different story. Host those are some opinions this morning. A work requirements. You heard our guest talk about it. What do you think about it . Do you support it . Bonita group to under the Obama Administration has an oped piece taking a look at the requirements pc rights requirements. She writes that is the coauthor of that piece that you can find on the usa today website. Pennsylvania next. This is richard. Caller i think they should be workred to work, if they or volunteer if they are ablebodied. Thing is, who decides if they are ablebodied . I think is a good idea that maybe some of the work could be to sign up people for voter registration. I think that would be a good thing for them to do so we could get everybody in this country to vote. What do you think these red states will say about that . Host what do we say about the ablebodied miss . That will be a statebystate determination. Macon, georgia. Good morning. Caller good morning. I dont think that should be a requirement for health care. Can you hear me echo can you hear me . Host go on. Caller you have the people with illness, the homeless, of the forms of disability. Get theme point we can Unemployment Rate down to zero where everybody can find a job maybe, the people who are thinking about ablebodied people who are not working, they will be on to do that. That. Y will be able to do you have people who have children and it just would not work out. I still work for social Services Years ago. Host i want to go back to your point. When it is only ablebodied people being considered, tell me why you dont agree with it. People who have some have other circumstances in their lives, because if you are good to say you have to work so many hours, then these people should be up to work fulltime anyway. You have children who are going to have to have someone to keep their children, to pay for that and these children actually the parents get medicaid because of the kids. I dont think we need to complicate this. Barclays says most recipients are elderly or have children. Next. L hear from dan, and medicaid recipient. White pigeon, michigan. What do you think . Caller i want to thank you guys for what you do on here. I watch you guys daily. I am 52 years old. Emphysema. , i have cirrhosis of the liver. Thate three bulging discs press into the nerve in my spine when i am working. I have lost several jobs within two years, ok . I am an american and i am proud and i want to go to work. I want to be able to support myself, but when a person cant, that is when they need to be able to fall back on some help. In theirlot of people late 20s, early 30s and they because it work, have some kind of nothing against i know you can have panic attacks but i think that the system is being taken advantage of by a lot of those people, so that when older people get up there and they have worked all their lives and they have tried to do what they can, it is not there for them. You have to fight and struggle. I do think they should go through in what i had to do is get to get food stamps and medicaid, i had to have a note for my doctor. What my ailments were, why i wasnt able to work. That is what they should be up to do. Do ones should be able to. The ones that are able to work should go to work. Host if you want to call the line for medicaid recipients the editors of the Washington Examiner in writing about this decision say this from coleman, alabama. Well hear from robin. Caller good morning, pedro. Yes, they should have to go to work and they are able and i can give you an example. My example is this it i was working in mississippi. I went into a store. As i was going in a store, a man came up panhandling. And when inside and complaining about it to the clerk. She said that is my husband. I said he should be working. She said if he goes to work, i will lose my food stamps. I get 600 a month. If he goes to work, i will not be up to get that. He couldve been to work with me. Believe that, yes, people should go to work. It would lessen the burden that comes to the government, debt. Yes, yes, yes. Host rene in pennsylvania. Caller hello. I dont agree with the mandatory work. I am going to tell you why. Sometimes people are fired, laid families. Ey have they should be able to get medicaid. There is not enough jobs, the unemployment i think those numbers are false. I have a lot of Family Members that are out of work or underemployed. They are constantly looking for work. Agree you have to have a job and noted to get medicaid. The companies, these people who work, their companies should provide health care. That should be mandatory. That a company, if you are employed, even at least 20 hours a week, the company should provide health care. Andrew. Ts hear from hi. Caller hi. I agree with the last caller. I agree with the couple of the ladies who called and when they said that, it complicates the situation a little bit but nobody is thinking about the little guy when they think about medicaid. The people that do work but still need the assistance. That is the part. It complicates the situation with how many hours would have to do versus Community Service hours they would have to do versus how many work hours they would have to do versus how much time they would be putting in to get another job. Nobody is thinking about that. Host why is that a competition . Thatr because i feel it makes it much more competition and then the government is getting much more into peoples lives that need assistance versus helping people to the next level in their life. That is what medicaid is for, System People to the next level so they can get off, so they can do Something Better with the lives. Nobody is thinking about assisting to go to the next level. That is what it is supposed to be for. Control someones life or tell them that they have to do this versus have to do that. It is to assist. I never heard of an assistant telling the boss, you have to do this. Host that is andrew and suitland, maryland. Andrew in suitland, maryland. You have heard people agree with it, disagree with it, medicaid recipients. If you want to agree, and give us your thoughts shortly after it was announced, it was an exchange of the house screaming between a reporter in the White House Press secretary about the decision about medicaid and some of the implications. Sayn medicaid, critics and you need to be healthy to get a job. How are they wrong . Certainly we want the American Workforce to be healthy. We are focused on helping improve health care across the board, but we also want people to have jobs. We are working on both of those things. Do you think people are just taking advantage of the system . Whats there are cases where that happens. There are cases when that happens. It is something we want to be sure to address. Host the Washington Post talks about some of the states that are involved. Filing request for waivers to work. The requirements for the medicaid policy, the Trump Administration approving a proposal from kentucky. The states proposals vary widely. Covington, georgia. You are next. Caller how are you doing . Thise a good reason why should be implemented. I owned a home in atlanta and i try to work when i could. There were several young ladies who didnt have husbands who lived across the street and i watch them everyday get out of the yard and play around with the drug dealers. Every day, they would get out and you can tell they were ablebodied women. They would have three or four children. What i believe is happiness, these women would have to find a job, it would take away more time and give them more time to work in less time to have babies. Point is ifortant you have three children in your able to work in your not working and you are getting medicaid, then you are not you are drawing more than that. You really shouldnt be working so you can build yourself a life you really should be working so you can build yourself a life. It helps all society. It helps the people that is working. Else the babies it helps the babies and the mother and father. Host lets hear from a medicaid recipient. Good morning. Caller thank you for taking my call. Im calling because i am a medicaid recipient. I work at 35 to 40 hours every week. I do have two children. I agree that medicaid recipients should those who are not those who are able to provide documentation but those who are able to work, able to get up every day, there should be a requirement because it costs a lot. Those who are able to work, they should. Host some of the people have said even if people dont have physical elements, sometimes there are mental and emotional issues. Mental is far as the concerned, i have mental issues. I have anxiety. I am able to hold a job. I think it should be left up to if there is a position they see. There should be some kind of should be some kind of documentation. If they determine whether or not they can work are able to work, then that should be they can work or are able to work, then that should be. Maryland require you to report some kind of activity . Caller no, i have never been required to report any kind of activity. I do need to provide paystubs. Paystubs. Host you dont have to give specific dollar figures but as far as assistance, how much does that supplement what you need to survive . Getting . Hat all of my i received food stamps and medicaid. I receive food stands and medicaid. That is what i receive every month. Host that is kimberly giving us her experience. Telling us about this requirement but her personal story as well. Youre invited to do the same. We will continue on with this topic, getting your thoughts on this requirement. It is you can call that. We will show you other stores along the way. Steve bannon in the news expected on capitol hill where it is reporting where he will meet behind closed doors on tuesday with u. S. House of Representatives Committee that is probing whether russia meddled in the 2016 election. The interview comes after his public falling out after comments he made. The meeting will come after donald trump junior was told in any bill that the russian government has heard on Hillary Clinton has hurt has dirt on Hillary Clinton in which he replied, i love it. Jump accused bannon of having lost his mind trump accused bannon of having lost his mind. Bennett stepped down at Breitbart News bannon stepped down at Breitbart News. Cindy from connecticut. Hello. Caller thanks for taking my call. I dont agree with it for a few simple reasons. Some of the callers already said. You have some moms that have small children, cant work, the daycare. It is a little bit more complicated than that. I do work in the health field and i was in medicaid recipient for a couple of years when my husband lost his job. He did get another job right away, and i worked parttime. Most medicaid patients do work. 400s just that if you make times below the poverty line here connecticut, you are eligible for medicaid. It is a lifeline. It should be temporary lifeline. Everybody needs a safety net. Is, i have for me coworkers who were asked to work more hours. They dont because if they do they will go above that poverty line and they will not get their medicaid. That is a problem. Too, youre not required report anything of your assets. You can lose your job and get medicaid immediately, but you are

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