Matt Yglesias in peak form on #Medicaid work requirements:

“If you’re imagining some horde of people getting off their asses in response to a work requirement and getting a job, you’re dreaming. What’s going to happen is some people with serious barriers to employment that would maybe qualify them for an exemption aren’t going to understand how to get the exemption and will lose their Medicaid. So Medicaid spending will be cut without anyone needing to stand up and say “what I’m saying is I want poor people to lose their health insurance so if they get sick they go broke and then get treated at public expense anyway in the emergency room.”