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Why is Mississippi so poor? One reason is that people in our state are not working. We have one of the lowest labor force participation rates in the country. Able-bodied adults, who could and should be working, are not working. They have opted out of work.
How is this possible?
Welfare. In particular, Medicaid – a federal/state free insurance program that was once for the disabled, the blind and other needy people. But no more. Medicaid has become a massive welfare program that expanded to able-bodied adults under Obamacare.
One of the biggest beneficiaries of Medicaid welfare expansion has been single young men. What are these men doing? … Playing video games? Smoking weed? Nothing? What we know for sure is that they are not working. The federal government is basically paying able-bodied adults not to work.
Today, you can do something about this tragedy.
Call and email your Mississippi House member and ask him/her to vote NO on Medicaid expansion: SB 2212.
To be clear, Medicaid is not Medicare, a health insurance program for the elderly. In fact, as Medicaid expands, there is less money for Medicare. Medicaid is being used as the vehicle to launch socialized medicine – the Left calls it “Medicaid for All.”
In order to get there, Democrats have focused on adding able-bodied, working-age adults to Medicaid. Their most recent scheme is to add post-postpartum women. What does this mean?
The medically defined postpartum period lasts 6 weeks: 42 days. Medicaid ALREADY provides a generous 60 days of postpartum coverage. The Biden administration, however, is encouraging states to expand this 60-day period to one whole year. And Red States are taking the bait.
Until this week, Mississippi has stood strong against this scheme to add even more able-bodied adults to welfare. But then Gov. Tate Reeves suddenly announced he, too, wanted to expand Medicaid.
Now, Speaker Philip Gunn and the Mississippi House of Representatives stand alone in their opposition to Biden’s Medicaid expansion. They need your help and encouragement.
Please call and email your Mississippi House member and ask him/her to vote NO on SB 2212.
Expanding welfare to able-bodied adults is immoral. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 says:
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Billy Graham explained this passage as follows: “Please note that this wasn’t spoken to people who couldn’t find jobs. This was instead directed at people who had every opportunity to work – but refused to do so.”
Expanding Medicaid is also not pro-life. Planned Parenthood is one of the biggest beneficiaries of Medicaid. And research shows that expanding Medicaid at the state level increases abortion.
Please call and email your Mississippi House member and ask him/her to vote NO on SB 2212.
AFA Action is a non-profit 501(c)(4) organization dedicated to advancing biblical, family values in society and government by educating and influencing public policy. AFA Action is also the Governmental Affairs Affiliate of American Family Association.