Just the facts folks... 20 million newly eligible able-bodied adults were added to Medicaid..

[healthmyths]

Does the "able-bodied, TV Game watching male" really exist? How many? Four?

• Able-bodied adults on Medicaid: Approximately 7 to 10 million able-bodied, non-working adults without dependents are estimated to be enrolled in Medicaid. Data from December 2022 showed about 13.9 million able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) on Medicaid.
• Time spent watching TV/gaming: Some reports indicate that non-working, able-bodied Medicaid recipients spend a significant amount of time on these activities, such as an average of 4.2 hours per day. Another report claimed 125 hours per month.
• Gender: In 2023, around 46% of Medicaid recipients were male.

Important Considerations:

• Work Requirements: Discussions about Medicaid often involve work requirements for able-bodied adults.
• Data Limitations: The available data, while informative, does not provide a precise figure for the specific group (able-bodied, TV game-watching males on Medicaid). Further detailed analysis would be required to get a more accurate count.
• These statistics are part of a broader discussion about Medicaid and its recipients, and they do not capture the full complexities of the individuals enrolled in the program.

Congressman Aderholt Backs Speaker Johnson: New Data Shows Able-bodied Medicaid Recipients Spend Over 120 Hours a Month Watching TV and Playing Video Games Instead of Working​

June 3, 2025
Press Release
Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today issued the following statement in strong support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding waste and abuse in the Medicaid system, following a new report exposing how non-working Medicaid recipients are spending their time.

“Speaker Johnson hit the nail on the head when he said Medicaid shouldn’t be going to ‘29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.’ The American Enterprise Institute’s new analysis confirms it: many able-bodied Medicaid recipients who aren’t working are spending their time — not looking for jobs — but glued to screens.”

According to the AEI study, non-working Medicaid recipients without children spend an average of 4.2 hours every day watching TV and playing video games. That adds up to 125 hours per month — time that could be used for working, volunteering, or gaining job skill

Congressman Aderholt Backs Speaker Johnson: New Data Shows Able-bodied Medicaid Recipients Spend Over 120 Hours a Month Watching TV and Playing Video Games Instead of Working

WASHINGTON — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today issued the following statement in strong support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding waste and abuse in the Medicaid system, following a new report exposing how non-working Medicaid recipients are spending their time.

aderholt.house.gov

 

[healthmyths]

No empathy for the poor.

No proof of any able-bodied males not working getting free health care. They don't exist.,

• Able-bodied adults on Medicaid: Approximately 7 to 10 million able-bodied, non-working adults without dependents are estimated to be enrolled in Medicaid. Data from December 2022 showed about 13.9 million able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) on Medicaid.
• Time spent watching TV/gaming: Some reports indicate that non-working, able-bodied Medicaid recipients spend a significant amount of time on these activities, such as an average of 4.2 hours per day. Another report claimed 125 hours per month.
• Gender: In 2023, around 46% of Medicaid recipients were male.

Important Considerations:

• Work Requirements: Discussions about Medicaid often involve work requirements for able-bodied adults.
• Data Limitations: The available data, while informative, does not provide a precise figure for the specific group (able-bodied, TV game-watching males on Medicaid). Further detailed analysis would be required to get a more accurate count.
• These statistics are part of a broader discussion about Medicaid and its recipients, and they do not capture the full complexities of the individuals enrolled in the program.

Congressman Aderholt Backs Speaker Johnson: New Data Shows Able-bodied Medicaid Recipients Spend Over 120 Hours a Month Watching TV and Playing Video Games Instead of Working​

June 3, 2025
Press Release
Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today issued the following statement in strong support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding waste and abuse in the Medicaid system, following a new report exposing how non-working Medicaid recipients are spending their time.

“Speaker Johnson hit the nail on the head when he said Medicaid shouldn’t be going to ‘29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.’ The American Enterprise Institute’s new analysis confirms it: many able-bodied Medicaid recipients who aren’t working are spending their time — not looking for jobs — but glued to screens.”

According to the AEI study, non-working Medicaid recipients without children spend an average of 4.2 hours every day watching TV and playing video games. That adds up to 125 hours per month — time that could be used for working, volunteering, or gaining job skill

Congressman Aderholt Backs Speaker Johnson: New Data Shows Able-bodied Medicaid Recipients Spend Over 120 Hours a Month Watching TV and Playing Video Games Instead of Working

WASHINGTON — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today issued the following statement in strong support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding waste and abuse in the Medicaid system, following a new report exposing how non-working Medicaid recipients are spending their time.

aderholt.house.gov

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

I don't have empathy for people who choose not to support themselves. I have empathy for the truly disabled and widows and orphans who really need support.

Who disagrees with that, unless it is the Trumpers who say the infirm, poor, and ill?

And you guys can't even come up with an accurate so-called "able body" group of males who are not working yet on Medicaid.,

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

• Able-bodied adults on Medicaid: Approximately 7 to 10 million able-bodied, non-working adults without dependents are estimated to be enrolled in Medicaid. Data from December 2022 showed about 13.9 million able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) on Medicaid.
• Time spent watching TV/gaming: Some reports indicate that non-working, able-bodied Medicaid recipients spend a significant amount of time on these activities, such as an average of 4.2 hours per day. Another report claimed 125 hours per month.
• Gender: In 2023, around 46% of Medicaid recipients were male.

Important Considerations:

• Work Requirements: Discussions about Medicaid often involve work requirements for able-bodied adults.
• Data Limitations: The available data, while informative, does not provide a precise figure for the specific group (able-bodied, TV game-watching males on Medicaid). Further detailed analysis would be required to get a more accurate count.
• These statistics are part of a broader discussion about Medicaid and its recipients, and they do not capture the full complexities of the individuals enrolled in the program.

Congressman Aderholt Backs Speaker Johnson: New Data Shows Able-bodied Medicaid Recipients Spend Over 120 Hours a Month Watching TV and Playing Video Games Instead of Working​

June 3, 2025
Press Release
Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today issued the following statement in strong support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding waste and abuse in the Medicaid system, following a new report exposing how non-working Medicaid recipients are spending their time.

“Speaker Johnson hit the nail on the head when he said Medicaid shouldn’t be going to ‘29-year-old males sitting on their couches playing video games.’ The American Enterprise Institute’s new analysis confirms it: many able-bodied Medicaid recipients who aren’t working are spending their time — not looking for jobs — but glued to screens.”

According to the AEI study, non-working Medicaid recipients without children spend an average of 4.2 hours every day watching TV and playing video games. That adds up to 125 hours per month — time that could be used for working, volunteering, or gaining job skill

Congressman Aderholt Backs Speaker Johnson: New Data Shows Able-bodied Medicaid Recipients Spend Over 120 Hours a Month Watching TV and Playing Video Games Instead of Working

WASHINGTON — Congressman Robert Aderholt (AL-04) today issued the following statement in strong support of Speaker Mike Johnson’s comments regarding waste and abuse in the Medicaid system, following a new report exposing how non-working Medicaid recipients are spending their time.

aderholt.house.gov

Check your sources. Aderholt does not give his sources.

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

Aderholt gives us no sources.

 

[DukeU]

And someone else is paying for you to have a $7K deductible. That is the nature of insurance---risk/cost sharing.

Someone with a job.

 

[dudmuck]

Most likely because YOU haven't paid any taxes to the state or federal government it makes no difference to you that
Because of Obamacare Medicaid expansion, the federal government pays states more to cover working-age, single men than it does for vulnerable pregnant women or individuals with disabilities. For Medicaid recipients who do not report working, the most common activity after sleeping is watching television and playing video games. They spend 4.2 hours per day watching television and playing video games, or 125 hours during a 30-day month.
Approximately 13.9 million Americans categorized as able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) are enrolled in Medicaid. "

Able-Bodied, Unemployed Adults Have Overrun the Medicaid Program - Americans for Tax Reform

Medicaid – a program designed to help pregnant women, the disabled, the elderly, and children – has become overrun with able-bodied, unemployed adults. Today,

atr.org

As a result the Federal and state governments allocate in expenses for these 13.9 million adults who could be working and paying their share.. are costing ALL AMERICANS who do work.. an average of $11,000/ year in expenses per these able-bodied lazy none working or a total of $152,900,000,000 a year. MY and millions of Americans hard earned money wasted on people playing video games. But of course you are probably one of them!

 

[healthmyths]

Check your sources. Aderholt does not give his sources.

DUMMY! READ again... geez you really do have less than 8.5 sec attention span!
The American Enterprise Institute’s new analysis confirms it: many able-bodied Medicaid recipients who aren’t working are spending their time — not looking for jobs — but glued to screens.”

According to the AEI study, non-working Medicaid recipients without children spend an average of 4.2 hours every day watching TV and playing video games.
Figure 2 reports the number of Medicaid recipients by age group. As of December 2022 there were 19.6 million Medicaid recipients between the ages of 18 and 64 who were not disabled and did not have children, and 8.8 million between the ages of 25 and 54. Together, Figure 1 and Figure 2 suggest that Medicaid work requirements would target a large number of recipients, many of whom do not currently work a sufficient number of hours to comply. Thus, work requirements could have important effects on Medicaid expenditures, coverage and employment.

Less Than Half of Medicaid Recipients Work Enough to Comply With a Work Requirement

Congress is considering implementing work requirements for Medicaid. This reform could help Congress achieve its goal of reducing federal expenditures and simultaneously strengthen the incentive for Medicaid recipients to work. However, individuals who do not comply with the work requirement may...

www.aei.org

 

[John Edgar Slow Horses]

American Enterprise Institute?

MAGA bought and sold.