I am so sick of people calling Medicaid recipients “moochers” like they’re just lounging around on taxpayer dollars.

You think Medicaid is a handout? Try again. The majority of non-elderly adults on Medicaid are either working or live in working households. And if they’re not employed? It’s usually because they’re disabled, chronically ill, or taking care of family. That’s not freeloading — that’s survival in a broken economy.

But no, the second someone poor needs help, it’s “fraud” or “dependency.” Meanwhile, corporate CEOs get tax loopholes the size of Texas and somehow they’re seen as “job creators.”

Here’s what they won’t tell you: most of the people losing Medicaid right now aren’t losing it because they don’t qualify — they’re losing it because of administrative failure. Paperwork errors. Technical glitches. Bureaucratic red tape. That’s it. Over 70% of disenrollments since pandemic protections ended were for procedural reasons, not because someone was scamming the system.

And don’t get me started on the “Build Back Better cut Medicaid” nonsense. The plan did the exact opposite — it tried to expand coverage, close the Medicaid gap in red states, and boost home- and community-based care. You’re mad at a plan that wanted to cover more people and help the elderly stay out of institutions? What the h### does that say about your priorities?

And let’s be honest — if you support “work requirements,” you’re not trying to help people get jobs. You’re trying to punish them for being poor. Studies prove it: in Arkansas, when they imposed work requirements, thousands lost coverage, but nobody got more jobs. It was just a bureaucratic purge dressed up as tough love.

Meanwhile, Medicaid recipients are the ones bagging your groceries, serving your food, changing your sheets in the hospital. They’re essential workers — but when they need help, suddenly they’re a burden?

Call it what it is: cruelty dressed up as fiscal responsibility. You’re not mad at “fraud” — you’re mad that poor people might live a little longer with dignity.

Medicaid isn’t the problem. It’s one of the only things holding this rigged economy together. And if you don’t get that, then you’re either willfully ignorant, or you’ve bought the propaganda that tells you poor people are your enemy instead of the billionaires robbing all of us blind.

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