The former billionaire, who inherited a coal mining business from his father, presides over a state where 29% of residents are on Medicaid

When Senator Jim Justice of West Virginia was asked about the Senate Republicans’ newly released portion of the proposed spending bill that requires parents of children older than 14 to work for Medicaid, he said, “biblically, we are supposed to work.”

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    9 days ago

    It’s nuts that our health insurance is tied to employment here in the US.

    Even more nuts that they specifically want it to be that way to coerce people into working in order not to be left to die

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      Healthy enough to work or sick enough to die.

      That’s what they want. Work or die. It’s that black and white for the slave working class.