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Jonathan V. Last

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The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

And if you've ever dealt with paperwork requirements from the government, these are like the worst version of paperwork requirements where it's like impossible to understand what they're asking for. It's impossible to get people on the phone to answer your questions. It's vague.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

And if you've ever dealt with paperwork requirements from the government, these are like the worst version of paperwork requirements where it's like impossible to understand what they're asking for. It's impossible to get people on the phone to answer your questions. It's vague.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

And we've dozed all the people that would have answered the questions previously, previous years. Right.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

And we've dozed all the people that would have answered the questions previously, previous years. Right.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

And we've dozed all the people that would have answered the questions previously, previous years. Right.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Right. They've tried this in two states, Arkansas and Georgia. And an experiment has proven that what it does is it throws eligible people off the program. People who are eligible who are working or otherwise eligible to receive this just can't get through the paperwork and they lose their eligibility. And then they go to the doctor and they find they can't pay for it. And then they're ruined.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Right. They've tried this in two states, Arkansas and Georgia. And an experiment has proven that what it does is it throws eligible people off the program. People who are eligible who are working or otherwise eligible to receive this just can't get through the paperwork and they lose their eligibility. And then they go to the doctor and they find they can't pay for it. And then they're ruined.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Right. They've tried this in two states, Arkansas and Georgia. And an experiment has proven that what it does is it throws eligible people off the program. People who are eligible who are working or otherwise eligible to receive this just can't get through the paperwork and they lose their eligibility. And then they go to the doctor and they find they can't pay for it. And then they're ruined.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Sometimes those people... had jobs and get sick and can't get treatment for getting sick and then lose their jobs as a result of the fact that they're now too sick to work. So rather than promoting employment, this actually discourages employment.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Sometimes those people... had jobs and get sick and can't get treatment for getting sick and then lose their jobs as a result of the fact that they're now too sick to work. So rather than promoting employment, this actually discourages employment.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Sometimes those people... had jobs and get sick and can't get treatment for getting sick and then lose their jobs as a result of the fact that they're now too sick to work. So rather than promoting employment, this actually discourages employment.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

But what it does do is cut government spending because a lot of people just lose their access to Medicaid and then that's how the government saves money. That is literally what it does. But they're going to claim that, well, we're just making, you know, 25 year olds get off the couch and stop playing video games. But that is absolutely not what these requirements do.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

But what it does do is cut government spending because a lot of people just lose their access to Medicaid and then that's how the government saves money. That is literally what it does. But they're going to claim that, well, we're just making, you know, 25 year olds get off the couch and stop playing video games. But that is absolutely not what these requirements do.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

But what it does do is cut government spending because a lot of people just lose their access to Medicaid and then that's how the government saves money. That is literally what it does. But they're going to claim that, well, we're just making, you know, 25 year olds get off the couch and stop playing video games. But that is absolutely not what these requirements do.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Any other thoughts on the health care cuts? And there's some marketplace cuts, you know, some of the various ACA plans. But I mean, it's not just Medicaid folks that are going to be hurt.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Any other thoughts on the health care cuts? And there's some marketplace cuts, you know, some of the various ACA plans. But I mean, it's not just Medicaid folks that are going to be hurt.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Any other thoughts on the health care cuts? And there's some marketplace cuts, you know, some of the various ACA plans. But I mean, it's not just Medicaid folks that are going to be hurt.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Right. No, they just they literally just threw that in the last minute. I mean, it's happened so fast. We don't even have analysis of the effects of how many people are going to lose their insurance and how much the deficit is going to spike. And they just don't care. I mean, they're just they're literally just rushing it through so fast because in a sense, they don't even want to know.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Right. No, they just they literally just threw that in the last minute. I mean, it's happened so fast. We don't even have analysis of the effects of how many people are going to lose their insurance and how much the deficit is going to spike. And they just don't care. I mean, they're just they're literally just rushing it through so fast because in a sense, they don't even want to know.

The Bulwark Podcast
S2 Ep1048: Jonathan Chait: House GOP Doesn't Care How Bad the Bill Is

Right. No, they just they literally just threw that in the last minute. I mean, it's happened so fast. We don't even have analysis of the effects of how many people are going to lose their insurance and how much the deficit is going to spike. And they just don't care. I mean, they're just they're literally just rushing it through so fast because in a sense, they don't even want to know.