Republican senators praise Medicaid’s big and beautiful bill job requirements

Although Democrats predicted the main problem “A big, beautiful bill” This complements the job requirement for adults to qualify for Medicaid, a requirement that Republican senators praised, saying: “We have to go back to work.”

The regulations require fitness, ages 18 to 64, and children-free adults working at least 80 hours a month to be eligible for Medicaid benefits. Individuals can also meet requirements by participating in community services, going to school or engaging in a work program.

R-Kan. Senator Roger Marshall told Fox News Digital. “We want you to go to college, we want to volunteer, work 20 hours a week, it brings dignity and brings goals to your life. Working is a great thing; there is nothing to shame on it.”

“There are 7 million healthy American men who are not working properly at the moment,” Marshall continued. “We happen to have 7 million public jobs, too. I think I want to do everything I can to help those seven million men get jobs. Whether it’s through education or community colleges, technical colleges, I think there are a lot of opportunities there.”

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Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn).

“It’s amazing how Democrats try to make this argument,” he said. “I don’t think taxpayers should be billed for healthy citizens. Of course, non-citizens should not benefit from it.”

“We need to motivate work,” Hagerty continued. “Of course, you don’t want to incentivize the burden of taxpayers.”

“We have to take care of people who need care, and it’s really unfortunate that you have a lot of free loaders in this country,” Sen said. Tommy Tuberviller-ala.

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Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville, from Alabama, spoke with media members outside the Crime Court in Manhattan, New York on Monday, May 13, 2024. (Victor J. Blue/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Tuberville claims that many of the people he is considered freelancers “from young people because they grew up, they have all these student loans, they get a degree that is not worth it, they can’t find a job, or they don’t want to work, and they don’t want to work, so they have become socialists, they start living, they start government.”

“We can’t do that. We have to return to work. This country is built on efforts,” he said.

Meanwhile, R-Wis. Senator Ron Johnson said he also agreed to the job requirements, telling Fox News Digital: “Honestly, what we have to do is stop registering Medicaid for Obamacare.”

“They call it Medicaid extension, but it’s Obamcare. Democrats A method to try to turn us into a single payer system. So it inspires states to sign single sound people,” he claims.

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U.S. Senator John Fettman (D-PA) speaks to reporters in Washington, DC on February 12, 2025 (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

“The result,” he continued. “We created various [what] I call legal fraud in the states legalized fraud… Now they have designed the budget for the scam, and now they are screaming as we try to end the scam. ”

Also, the Senator John FettmanD-Pa. “Of course, we should always eliminate any kind of fraud and this waste,” said other Democrats far more enthusiastic about the job requirements.

“The rule is not designed for efficiency, nor is it to save supplies for people who are designed to stand out from Medicaid, such as not to believe in hype,” said D-Conn Senator Chris Murphy.

Murphy claims Republicans “established a job requirement that they know people will not be able to meet because they hate the idea that Medicaid actually helps the poor in the country.”

“So even if they are working, there will be a group of people working for a living, and they will not be able to comply with these regulations and will lose health care,” he said. “That’s the intention of the regulations and everyone should be honest with it.”

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Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg)

senator Mark KellyD-Ariz. It said the rule would “strike 17 million people out of health insurance.”

“These are life and death conditions that people have created, and this legislation will remove my 300,000 voters from their healthcare coverage,” he said.

“These are things that people I talk to can’t afford,” he continued. “They don’t have the money to buy health care on the budget. So they have to make a decision between diet and rent or they just don’t go to the doctor.”

James Agresti, president of Just Facts, a public policy research firm, told Fox News Digital that despite claims about job requirements, he believes reality tells a different story.

“It is ridiculous for adults who are healthy without children to work, and it is ridiculous to have 20 hours of education or volunteering,” he said.

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“Murphy’s remarks have been dismissed by decades of experience in other welfare programs with job requirements, such as provisional assistance to families in need,” he explained.

Agristi said 1.4 million non-citizens and 9.2 million adults who do not work or engage in fraud will be removed from Medicaid eligibility, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO).

A spokesman for Kelly’s office told Fox News numbers, “a group of actual experts and media correctly interpreted the same CBO report. It estimated that by 2034, 11.8 million people will not have health insurance, plus 5.1 million people, as the bill ends the expanded affordable health care bill.

In response, Agristi said the bill “has not revoked the expanded Obamacare subsidy, a temporary injected handout by Democrats in the U.S. rescue plan and expanded in the inflation reduction bill.”

“Even the New York Times reported that adding these numbers to the big and beautiful bill is exaggerated, not ‘real numbers’,” Agristi said.

He also said that many studies have proven that inhibition in the United States is a real problem.

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“Even Obama’s chief economist and Clinton’s Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers wrote that the ‘government aid program’ provides’ incentives, not tools to work,” he said.

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Murphy’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.