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Raphael Warnock Slams GOP Over Work Requirements For Medicaid: ‘They Are Coming After People’s Healthcare’
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5/21/2025
During Tuesday's Senate Democrats' press briefing, Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) spoke about the consequences of work requirements for Medicaid.
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So the Republicans have a real problem. They are trying to cut $880 billion
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out of Medicaid and there is not enough waste, fraud, and abuse to cut $880
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billion from Medicaid, not even close. And so they are coming after people's
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healthcare. Pure and simple. And they'll find many ways to talk about this. They'll
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talk about work requirements. But let's be clear what they're talking about.
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They're really talking about work reporting requirements. We have already
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seen this experiment in Georgia. Our governor has a program called Pathways
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to Coverage. He ought to call it Roadblocks to Coverage. We've got over 500,000
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people in Georgia who are in the healthcare coverage gap. A lot of those
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folks could be covered right now if Georgia would just accept the Medicaid
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expansion. Instead, we've seen this program and 20 months later, they've
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covered a whopping 7,000 people. That's it. 7,000 people. And so all of these
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are just tricks. These efforts are putting red tape up, asking people to
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certify their hours month after month after month. Does not incentivize work, but
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it does a very good job of keeping working people off of their healthcare. And as a
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result of that, our workforce grows sicker and poorer, and it's a drag on our
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economy. Every time I hear this, I think about Heather Payne, who is a traveling nurse in
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Georgia. And ironically, she spent her whole career working in healthcare. And one
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day she got sick. And to make a long story short, she discovered she had had a
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series of mini strokes. And she needed to see a neurologist, but she didn't have
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healthcare. And so all of this time later, she's struggling trying to get her life
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back together. Heather Payne, traveling nurse from Georgia, doesn't need work
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requirements. She needs healthcare so that she can get back to work. The data is very
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clear on this. I released a report on this last week. I want to see people work. My
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daddy drilled that into me. And so we're not going to let people moralize and preach to us
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about work requirements, while they're giving billionaires a tax cut. The way to
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get people back to work is to have a healthy workforce. And so we all must raise
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our voices on this budget. A budget is not just a fiscal document, it's a moral
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document. Show me your budget and I'll show you who you think matters and who does
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not. And if this budget that they're trying to push through using
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reconciliation, we're an EKG, it will suggest that the Republican Party has a heart problem
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and that they are in need of moral repair. And so we will continue to raise the voices
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of ordinary people and stand on the side of the people who sent us here so that they
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can get back to work and do the best by their families.
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Thank you, Senator Warnock.
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