Dr. Vin Gupta

have a work-limiting condition, medical condition, even if you've been able to do so and your medical record justifies it.

No, you have to get a physician or a medical provider to sign off on paperwork every six months.

And what's the complication here is exactly what you said.

What physician decided to go into the profession of medicine to heal patients

to now suddenly be put into a position where they have to adjudicate who does and does not get healthcare insurance.

This is the moral injury that they're introducing, this administration is introducing into the profession of medicine, as if they haven't already made the lives of physicians harder by reducing the number of people that have access to healthcare, by making the lives of pediatricians a lot harder, by making all the rhetoric and dialogue on safety and efficacy of vaccines far more complicated than it needs to be.

Now they're basically saying for a very vulnerable population, those on Medicaid, you as a physician or a medical provider will have to sign paperwork documenting that a patient can or cannot work to justify their access to needed medical care.

One, it's immoral that we as a society are even in this place in the first place.

We shouldn't have to be in this place to begin with.

Everybody deserves health care.

as a basic human right.

But number two, the notion that a physician went to medical school or a nurse practitioner went to nurse practitioner school or a physician assistant went to physician assistant school to engage in this, to understand, well, gosh, you have the capability to work a specific job and therefore you are granted the ability to have access to Medicaid, or no, you do not have the capability to work a specific job.

Therefore, we're gonna exempt you from work requirements and therefore you can maintain your access to Medicaid.

This is not our job.

We have 15 minutes spent in that clinical visit to actually do direct patient care.

No provider wants to be doing this.

No patient is driving in to see the provider in a busy downtown clinic to have to engage in this conversation.

So all they're doing is they know what's going to happen.

They know that people are not going to be able to navigate this every six months, the paperwork.

The signatures, they already knew that in the first place.