the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
the Voice of
The Communist League of Revolutionary Workers–Internationalist
“The emancipation of the working class will only be achieved by the working class itself.”
— Karl Marx
Jul 21, 2025
To justify cuts to Medicaid, Republicans present it as a handout healthcare insurance for lazy, idle people who don’t work but take advantage of hard-working taxpayers. This is total hogwash.
In reality, millions of workers at America’s largest employers, such as Walmart, McDonald’s, and Amazon, are paid so little for their labor that they have to rely on public assistance. As reported by the U.S. government in 2020, 31.2 million workers rely on Medicaid for their health insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) for food.
In 2023, 64% of adults on Medicaid (16.6 million) under age 65 were working, according to a report by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF). Approximately 44% of these Medicaid recipients were working full-time!
The U.S. government documented in 2020 that among adult wage earners who are SNAP recipients, 70% worked full-time every week, and more than half worked full or nearly full-time.
The U.S. government is dead set on cutting Medicaid by as much as $863 billion over 10 years, and SNAP food stamps by at least $186 billion. These cuts will be effective as of 2027, further squeezing low-wage workers. This money will be moved to the pockets of already filthy rich, mainly idle people, as handouts through tax cuts to their income.
The corporations will continue to generate their ever-skyrocketing profits by paying their workers ever-decreasing pitiful wages. They profit by having the government pay for their workers’ health insurance. This is a welfare system working for the rich.