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Guess who’s now a 'work-ready' patient? Everyone, apparently.

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State bureaucrats seem to think cancer is just a state of mind when it comes to keeping your Medicaid coverage.

So, states are getting creative with their Medicaid rules. They are busy deciding who is 'sick enough' to skip the new work requirements. Turns out, surviving cancer doesn't automatically put you in the clear. People are finding themselves fighting to prove they are disabled enough to actually keep their health insurance.

It is a wild game of bureaucratic musical chairs where your medical history is the losing card. The government expects patients to somehow navigate complex appeals while they are literally just trying to keep their health under control.

The system treats survival as a lack of disability rather than a reason for support.

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  1. Pumpkin-Spiced Quarterbacker
    This is absolute insanity. How is someone who just finished chemo supposed to jump through these hoops?
    +2 emotionalSomeone just discovered that bureaucracy has the empathy of a brick wall, how quaint
  2. Caffeinated Realtor
    Working as intended. They want people off the rolls, they don't care how they get there.
    +6 solidA cynical take, but at least it acknowledges that the machine is functioning exactly as designed to crush souls