There is a world where someone could loose their benefits. Medicaid eligibility is notoriously behind so if you’re an individual in that situation, I’d recommend letting them locate the discrepancy.

My point was, if you put off raising minimum wage because a small subset of people would loose services, you do a different disservice. The Medicaid expansion (moving from 100 to 133 FPL) outweighs the increase in minimum wage since then.

It’s also worth noting that Medicaid expansion hoped for competitive private plans on the marketplace but in practice that hasn’t happened. So this hypothetical family where they don’t want an increase in their minimum wage pay because they’d loose benefits, should be able to purchase a federally subsidized plan off the marketplace - which they still can, it’s just expensive and worse care than Medicaid.

State's rights....you wanted em, you got em.

This is a problem with all of the programs that are based on federal income guidelines. Due to inflation and slightly higher wages many people who truly need access to things like WIC, Mainecare/Medicare, and LIHEAP, etc can’t get those services because they make too much money and the federal guidelines haven’t caught up at all.

This is a problem with all of the programs that are based on federal income guidelines. Due to inflation and slightly higher wages many people who truly need access to things like WIC, Mainecare/Medicare, and LIHEAP, etc can’t get those services because they make too much money and the federal guidelines haven’t caught up at all.