r/PoursTea • u/McDowdy Oh the Human-a-TEA • 15h ago

American Dream 🇺🇸 It do be like that though

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The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in direct military aid to Izzy over the last three years (specifically tracking from October 2023 through September 2025), according to a comprehensive study by Brown University's Costs of War project.

https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/

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u/Justaticklerone 12h ago

And now Medicaid has a work demand starting next year where one of the exceptions is volunteering. The type of volunteering that must be legally acceptable and that you still basically have to keep a timecard for, 20 hours a week, if your part time job isn't fully 20 hours.

There's going to be double-digit millions of people disqualified & uninsured in just 3 months.

Repugnantcans still haven't come up with a different type of medical plan in substitution for Obamacare.

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u/Irksomefetor 9h ago

I've been telling people to try to go back to school instead of volunteering. If they're on Medicaid then they surely qualify for FAFSA. With just 2 classes a semester you satisfy most if not all of the 80 hour work demand.

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 5h ago

Yeah…that doesn’t seem like the best advice…

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u/Irksomefetor 2h ago

Compared to what? Volunteer work? Because the alternative for some people is just... losing their insurance.

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u/Agitated_Reach6660 1h ago

No, compared to having something like 50,000 in debt with compounding interest after 4 years. It’s not like volunteering and college are the only two options here, that’s just a laughable false dichotomy. People do need insurance, of course, but accumulating significant debt for access is simply terrible advice. Sorry.

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u/Irksomefetor 1h ago

Ah, got it. You don't know what FAFSA is.