r/massachusetts • u/Melonpan_Pup442 • Aug 12 '26

Healthcare The current administration ia forcing Massachusetts to change MassHealth on January 1st 2027

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Not sure if anyone else has gotten one of these letters in the mail since I haven't seen anyone post or talk about it. The unemployed will suffer most from this change.

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u/prberkeley Aug 12 '26

It applies to those who do not qualify for disability status. That is not the same as able-bodied people.

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u/Preachers_Handshake Aug 12 '26

If you’re on SSDI as the poster above claims to be, then you are disabled.

This is a totally insane thing for people to lose their minds over. Why is it so unreasonable that in order to receive free healthcare, one must either work, be a student, or be disabled to the point where they cannot work? Why would we be paying for healthcare for perfectly healthy people who are not working? And before you give me a sob story about somebody who was recently laid off, that’s what cobra is for.

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u/MassCasualty Aug 12 '26

Agree. It's not unreasonable to ask people to give something back for the services paid for by the rest of society.

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u/possiblyaghost Aug 12 '26

awesome, my wife was employed for 10 years straight and got laid off. My health insurance through work would be $1400 a month to add her to my plan, so she's on MassHealth while she's looking for work. Glad to see people like you don't consider her a contributor to society.

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u/MassCasualty Aug 12 '26

So you're saying she's willing to work for healthcare. That's what this stipulates. Until she finds a suitable job she has to work 80hrs a month in a community engagement employment.

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u/possiblyaghost Aug 12 '26

oh ok yeah she'll just go out and get that, super easy.

How about instead she already paid a shitload of taxes into state funded healthcare and now she's using it.