{"id":31903,"date":"2025-06-11T05:02:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reagan-invoked-the-welfare-queen-the-new-g-o-p-target-is-a-lazy-gamer\/"},"modified":"2025-06-11T05:02:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T05:02:21","slug":"reagan-invoked-the-welfare-queen-the-new-g-o-p-target-is-a-lazy-gamer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/reagan-invoked-the-welfare-queen-the-new-g-o-p-target-is-a-lazy-gamer\/","title":{"rendered":"Reagan Invoked the \u2018Welfare Queen.\u2019 The New G.O.P. Target Is a Lazy Gamer."},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as \u201cwelfare queens\u201d as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s, painting a picture of unscrupulous women bilking the system to finance a sumptuous lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now as they try to justify cuts to Medicaid, congressional Republicans are focused on a different deadbeat poster child: the shiftless male video gamer who lazes around the house attached to his console while getting free health care that should go to more deserving people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The imagery has changed, but the political tactic from the G.O.P. remains the same. By making broad generalizations about the types of people who could inappropriately benefit from federal benefits, they make the idea of cutting back seem virtuous rather than stingy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">With a new, restrictive work requirement for Medicaid and other cost-cutting measures emerging as main points of contention in the political debate over their sweeping domestic policy bill, Republicans have sought to play down the potential fallout for Americans who rely on the health care program for the poor. They say no one who truly merits help will lose benefits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To bolster their case, they assert that ridding the Medicaid rolls of slackers and undocumented immigrants who should not be getting taxpayer help will shave off billions of dollars without touching benefits for those in need. Their message is that the necessary savings can be achieved by going after the old standbys of waste, fraud and abuse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cYou don\u2019t want able-bodied workers on a program that is intended, for example, for single mothers with two small children who is just trying to make it,\u201d Speaker Mike Johnson said on CNN in February as he began laying the groundwork for the Medicaid cuts. \u201cThat\u2019s what Medicaid is for, not for 29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Representative Lauren Boebert, Republican of Colorado, piled on to the perceived couch potato community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you are able to work in America, well then you should not be sitting at home playing video games and collecting a check,\u201d she said last month after meeting with President Trump and hearing his pitch for the legislation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Other Republicans, Democrats and data analysts say that most Medicaid beneficiaries are already working. They note that even if a glut of loafing gamers did exist, cutting them off from government-provided insurance won\u2019t save much money, since they don\u2019t use much health care.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey\u2019re not on Medicaid because they are malingerers,\u201d Senator Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, said about his 1.3 million constituents currently on Medicaid. \u201cThey are on Medicaid because they can\u2019t afford private health insurance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Republican proponents of cuts say their argument was underscored by a recent analysis from the American Enterprise Institute. Applying the American Time Use Survey and the Current Population Survey, the report estimated that able-bodied Medicaid recipients who don\u2019t work spent about 4.2 hours a day watching television or playing video games, their second most common activity after sleeping. Working Medicaid recipients, it said, spent about 2.7 hours watching TV or gaming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The speaker\u2019s office said the findings substantiated Mr. Johnson\u2019s point that some beneficiaries were gaming the system as they gamed at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe next time a Democrat makes false claims about \u2018Medicaid cuts,\u2019 just remember that what they\u2019re really saying is they want illegal aliens and able-bodied adults playing video games at home to continue stealing resources from those who need it,\u201d the speaker\u2019s office said in a news release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Yet a new analysis from the Brookings Institution questioned the potential impact of the new House-approved work rule, which would require childless adults without physical limitations to show they had worked, volunteered or gone to school for at least 80 hours in the month before enrolling in Medicaid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Even if the new requirements now under review in the Senate did catch some idle gamers, the savings might not prove to be that great, the analysis said. The 4.3 million people the study said were on Medicaid with no limits on activity recorded the lowest average Medicaid spending, while 40 percent did not use medical services at all. The authors said their data showed that just 300,000 beneficiaries reported that they didn\u2019t work simply because they didn\u2019t want a job.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cSpeaker Johnson\u2019s archetypal young men who hang out in basements playing video games are not as common as he may imagine, and just don\u2019t use a lot of health care services,\u201d said the Brookings report, written by Sherry Glied and Dong Ding. \u201cDisenrolling this group would generate only modest federal savings, far less than needed to offset a significant share of the bill\u2019s tax cuts,\u201d they added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Democrats say Republicans are well aware that millions of Medicaid beneficiaries are not whiling away the hours at home playing video games while they eagerly take advantage of a program where eligibility is tied to low income. They say Republicans are misrepresenting the situation in pursuit of savings to offset tax cuts in their legislation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThey are just desperate for money and they know there\u2019s a lot of money to be saved by pulling people off welfare,\u201d said Senator Brian Schatz, Democrat of Hawaii. \u201cAnd so they have to imagine an unworthy person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Senator Richard Blumenthal, Democrat of Connecticut, said Republicans wanted to justify their Medicaid cuts by stigmatizing \u201chealth care as a handout, when it should be something that enables the whole society to be more productive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI think we are descending into the old \u2018welfare queen\u2019 demagoguery, and I think it is a disservice,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">When Reagan ran for president in 1976, he peppered campaign speeches with the anecdote of a Chicago woman who had found a way to bilk the welfare system through the use of aliases and other fraud. The claim that the system was rife with corruption was meant to stir anger and resentment among voters who worked for a living.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Though suggestions of widespread cases of people living a luxurious lifestyle on welfare were debunked from the start, the impression has persisted for decades and surfaces in political and policy fights from time to time. When Congress enhanced unemployment benefits during the Covid pandemic, conservatives balked, saying the extra pay would keep those already disinclined to work at home.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Johnson and others have accused able-bodied unemployed Americans of \u201ccheating\u201d by receiving Medicaid coverage when they could work, even though the expansion of Medicaid in many states under the Affordable Care Act has made it permissible to obtain coverage without working as long as low-income guidelines are met.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIf you are able to work and you refuse to do so, you are defrauding the system,\u201d Mr. Johnson said in late May on CBS\u2019s \u201cFace the Nation.\u201d He said that there was a \u201cmoral component\u201d to the Republican push to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients and that it would provide dignity to those pushed into the work force.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Brookings analysis said that many of those who don\u2019t hold a job would probably be exempt from new requirements because of reasons such as caring for a family member or other factors. It predicted that the effort would produce unintended consequences such as discouraging those who need Medicaid from qualifying for help because of new paperwork requirements.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cPrior efforts to surgically separate the meritoriously enrolled from the slackers have proved both ineffective and very administratively costly,\u201d the report said. \u201cMedicaid work requirements just don\u2019t work in the way their proponents promise they do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Robert Jimison<!-- --> contributed reporting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/06\/10\/us\/politics\/republicans-medicaid-cuts.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as \u201cwelfare queens\u201d as they made the case<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[862,424,908,863,7517,959,203,111],"class_list":["post-31903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-2","tag-johnson","tag-labor-and-jobs","tag-medicaid","tag-mike-1972","tag-one-big-beautiful-bill-act-2025","tag-poverty","tag-republican-party","tag-united-states-politics-and-government"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Reagan Invoked the \u2018Welfare Queen.\u2019 The New G.O.P. 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