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KenDurf t1_j0i4fxe wrote

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.

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