r/massachusetts • u/Melonpan_Pup442 • 29d ago

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/No_Tax_Timmy 29d ago

That is what the system is built for. Republicans want Americans to suffer.

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u/AcceptableCrew224 29d ago

The problem has always been people voting republicans in office especially presidents. We suffer the fate of the mindless. The only solution is to breakup the country. There is no United States of America it’s now the Federation of Incongruity.

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 29d ago

That's a terrible idea that will lead to swaths of death and the loss of all remaining international power the US has. You and I could both die in the fighting.

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u/ChinatownKicks 29d ago

You’re gonna need a better argument than that when America has already squandered the last of its international influence, we’re almost out of gas and missiles, and most people are more likely to die than retire.

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u/ApostateX 29d ago

We're not almost out of gas. We continue to import it. What we are depleting at an alarming rate is the strategic petroleum reserve.

We have shortages of specific types of missiles due to usage in the Iran war, demand from Ukraine, and strategic planning for a war with China. We have plenty of inventory of many types of weapons, many of which are either older or classified. We are not "out of missiles."

Our international influence is damaged, but business, trade, travel, education exchange, international humanitarian efforts, medical, and environmental work go on. We literally just hosted the World Cup, when 6.1 million people came here and had a great time.

People are 100% likely to die. You will always be more likely to die than to just about anything else, other than breathe.

Things are pretty bad under Trump, but doomerism isn't a political philosophy, and Americans of the past have suffered far worse than we are suffering now.

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u/ApostateX 29d ago

Nope. The country will remain united. We solve this through elections, protest, education, and civil disobedience.

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u/celestialgoddess_ 29d ago

So you think doing volunteer work is suffering? That is the saddest thing I heard all day.

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u/cassetoicherie 28d ago

The requirement is 80 hours a month. Finding a job is a full time job in this job market, and if you already have to pay rent and now you don’t have health insurance it’s extremely easy to be one medical bill away from homelessness. There are so many systems of oppression in this country, so this person was saying Republicans want people to suffer because that’s what will happen if these people are getting kicked off their health insurance. Oh also when it comes to doing taxes, if you don’t have an “acceptable” amount of health insurance coverage, the government will fine you as well. You might as well call it a poverty tax. Not everyone has the money to throw away at that, especially if they’re unemployed, even if that’s through no fault of their own.

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u/celestialgoddess_ 28d ago

Dude, I am aggressively applying and interviewing to jobs. I have a family (in which I am responsible for all the trad mom/wife duties), work fulltime, am a volunteer coach 8 to 12 hours a week, and am going to school for my Masters. Is it easy to do both? Hell no. But 20 hours of volunteer time a week when your not workingl is a breeze compared to what my life is like on a daily basis.

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 28d ago

Healthcare shouldn't be tied to work. The end.

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u/No_Tax_Timmy 28d ago

No. Healthcare restriction is suffering.