Regarding the editorial "Hawley vowed to protect Missourians' Medicaid. Now he’s voting to gut it." (June 30): Beyond the vote by Sen. Josh Hawley to throw those he vowed to protect under the bus, the next question is: Where are all these sick and disabled people supposed to work to meet this proposed new Medicaid work mandate?
These people come with colostomies and catheters, monitors and med schedules, sick days and hospitalizations. If there were millions of mobility-limited, climate-controlled, flexible-schedule and disability-compatible jobs out there, they’d already be filled.
Part of the reason Congress’ own nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has warned that more than 11 million Americans will lose their health care coverage under the budget legislation is because there are not enough of the right kinds of jobs out there to meet the work mandate.
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When you get past the broken campaign promises and political double-speak, you still arrive at the basic immorality of cutting services for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.
When you next stand in the voting booth remember: The needs of hundreds of thousands of Missouri’s most vulnerable were sacrificed by our elected officials to maintain the good graces of a single billionaire president.
Madonna Laws-Lowell
Crestwood
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