Indians Not Willing to Work for Welfare Get Brutal News from Trump Admin.
President Donald Trump and his administration have made entitlement reform one of their
top priorities.
However, a new move from the administration could be his most controversial yet.
According to Politico, the Trump administration plans to cut off health care to Native Americans
who refuse to find employment, "a policy that tribal leaders say will threaten access
to care and reverse centuries-old protections."
Several states are implementing Medicaid work requirements, something the Trump administration
has encouraged.
However, Native American tribes view themselves as being exempt from these work requirements,
arguing that tribal lands represent independent nations.
"But the Trump administration contends the tribes are a race rather than separate governments,
and exempting them from Medicaid work rules — which have been approved in three states
and are being sought by at least 10 others — would be illegal preferential treatment,"
Politico reported Sunday.
"(Health and Human Services) believes that such an exemption would raise constitutional
and federal civil rights law concerns," a review by Trump administration lawyers reads.Health
and Human Services has confirmed that the tribes have asked for an exemption several
times and have been turned down each time.
HHS spokeswoman Caitlin Oakley said officials "have made it clear that HHS is open to
considering other suggestions that tribes may have with respect to Medicaid community
engagement demonstration projects,""The United States has a legal responsibility to
provide health care to Native Americans," said Mary Smith, former acting head of the
Indian Health Service during the Obama years and a member of the Cherokee Nation.
"It's the largest prepaid health system in the world — they've paid through land
and massacres — and now you're going to take away health care and add a work requirement?"
So basically, here's the argument: During the early years of this country, horrible
things were done to Native Americans by the U.S. government — who, in fairness, got
almost as good as they gave.
Nevertheless, our treatment of Native Americans is a sorry chapter in American history — perhaps
our worst moment.
This sorry chapter means, in 2018, that Native American Medicaid recipients cannot get a
job and should not be compelled to look for one.
If you feel there are a few steps missing in that argument, you're not alone.
However, the persistently high unemployment in the Native American community has leaders
worried, particularly because welfare benefits, "which many of the nearly 3 million Native
Americans rely on," could be next to be revamped.
"It's very troublesome," said Caitrin McCarron Shuy of the National Indian Health
Board."There's high unemployment in Indian country, and it's going to create a barrier
to accessing necessary Medicaid services," she said, adding that Native Americans suffer
the highest drug overdose rates in the country.
Unemployment, meanwhile, hovers around 12 percent.
This is truly tragic, but what to ought to really worry people is these numbers make
it clear that the Medicaid program and welfare haven't worked for Native Americans.Oakley
pointed out that the work requirements can be filled by attending job training or higher
education.
Both of these things, one might think, might be more meliorative than the status quo.
Either way, the current system isn't working.
It's time to make a change, and this seems like a promising start.
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