Every right winger knows Medicaid recipients just sit around smoking pot and drinking beer while hard working people pay for their Medicaid care. They should be forced to work to stay alive. Finding work is no problem because America has hundreds of thousands of job openings. All those wastrels need a little push to make them work or invent an item to become rich.

If this sounds preposterous, it is. However, I have been hearing it since Medicaid started. America Healthcare Act put it on stage front so the Republican Governors of Kentucky, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Arizona are looking to put work rules into the mix.

If those conservatives really want to cut Medicaid and welfare then they should go against another principle—Birth Control. Conservatives know we are paying for children of parents who can’t afford them. Some wastrels are supported solely because of having kids. Changing that program would be a way of cutting costs of both programs. Many areas of America are job deserts since mining and manufacturing jobs have left. Another reason not to work is jobs net less than welfare and those jobs don’t pay benefits but may cause loss of Medicaid.

Universal healthcare would fix most problems without creating many more issues. A healthier society means a better low-tech work force. The conservatives hate the ACA purely because it was a Democratic program. They forget it was based on a plan by a conservative think tank and enacted by Governor Romney.

One way to cut Medicaid was to extend CHIPs, which Congress just did for six years. This entire ruckus is for only a few recipients. The real numbers for those not on disability are: 42% working full time, 18% part-time, 14% sick, 12% doing family care, 6% in school, and 7% idle. Most of the 7% is in job desert areas like Eastern Kentucky.