Yesterday

Congressman Mark Alford
[May 19, 2025]
‼️It’s time for able bodied adults with no dependents to get off the couch and back to work.
These are not “cuts” to Medicaid in President Trump’s One BIG, Beautiful Bill. We are saving money to make sure the program is there for people who truly need it.‼️

Some of the responses:

People on Medicaid already do the paperwork proving they should be on it. This paper work is designed to make it hard for people to stay on . Constantly refiling untill they mess up and drop off. Many on Medicaid are unable to do the paperwork for themselves.

Many of the people on Medicaid are working already. Also,
Medicaid has lengthy and exacting standards to be able to claim benefits. I wish the requirements for US Reoresentatives were as difficult to pass.

Mark’s obviously very new at this job maybe one day he’ll be honest instead of just a yes, man for an orange turd ……

66% of adults ages 19-64 on Medicaid in Missouri currently work. This group + the 1 of 3 children in Missouri on Medicaid make up 76% of the total Medicaid enrolled in MO but only receive 40% of the $ paid out. where does the rest go? 24% of enrollees are the 2 of 3 seniors in MO nursing homes & 2 of 7 disabled. That 24% gets 60% of the Medicaid $ paid out in Mo.

Well, hell, I have 3 torn ligaments in my knee. But if Mark wants me to get off the couch, guess that’s what I have to do. Thanks, Mark, for the wake-up call. By the way, could you get somebody to drive me around? Message me!

key word there is suggests!!! What is your definition of able bodied??? How about you doing what your constituents hired you to do – work for them and why haven’t you addressed the fact that the so called big beautiful bill actual adds trillions of dollars to the national debt – with all these savings that doge has made you would think that number would be lowering the national debt not raising it- there is nothing more fraudulent then this current administration!!

don’t you think it would be good to figure out actual numbers, before rushing this bill through? Y’all don’t plan to implement the Medicaid cuts until the end of 2027, so as to not affect the election, so what’s the rush?

you love forcing disabled people to work?

You love kicking kids and the elderly off of Medicaid? Those are the 2 largest groups drawing Medicaid benefits.

You love it…………..until you need it and it isn’t there for you. The selfishness is astounding. I know so many people like you, and it breaks my heart that so many have no empathy for others……….sigh………

You DO realize that most people who are Medicaid cannot work…you know little kids, disabled people, people in nursing homes. Very little fraud. Most fraud is at the provider, prescription plan and managed care level. Better research please.

Why don’t you provide the math to justify your claims about the budget bill?

How dumb can you be? Do you not know that Trump is lying to you? He’s not “saving money!” He’s using the money to give tax breaks to rich people.

just like they will deport all the illegals, studies show that 80% deported actually were here legally and the rules were changed. they were not criminals.

Uhm do you not understand who the working poor are?????

Many able-bodied adults without dependents who rely on Medicaid are already working full-time—especially in service jobs like restaurants, hotels, and retail—where health insurance is rarely offered.
The “8647” phrase has been getting attention lately. In service slang, “86” means “to get rid of,” and “47” refers to Trump as the 47th president. While it stirred political controversy, it also highlights a harsh reality: many working people feel “86’d” from basic economic security.
Medicaid isn’t a handout for people avoiding work—it’s often the only thing keeping hardworking folks afloat. Cutting these benefits doesn’t save money; it hurts the people who keep our economy going.
If we really want to support working Americans, we need to stop making assumptions about who deserves help and focus on ensuring access to affordable healthcare.

So I have to call off my retirement?

Truly regret i voted for you

Congressman Mark Alford = Liar ! ! !

I don’t think this post worked out the way you thought it would, Congressman Mark Alford.

He doesn’t care.

Lap dog

Congressman Mark Alford we Missourians voted to expand Medicaid. I actually agree with Senator Josh Hawley on the immoral and devastating effects of slashing Medicaid. You talk about adding “work requirements” though that was tried and failed for several good foreseeable reasons (like people being disabled, children, elderly, etc.), but then also want to slash benefits for Medicaid expansion beneficiaries even though those are people who make enough income to not qualify for traditional Medicaid because they ARE WORKING.

Mark Alford “could be”….that sounds like it’s a valid research statistic [….]

I read the KFF report and 18,000 people lost coverage under the Arkansas work requirement but it didn’t increase employment. Also per that report, access to affordable healthcare and insurance increases the likelihood that someone is able to be healthy enough to obtain and maintain employment. We all pay dearly when our fellow citizens are unhealthy and even more so when they’re uninsured. A healthy workforce is a smart investment.

Such a disrespectful post showing you have no understanding of why people are on Medicaid or how hard it is to get on Medicaid. And we have not forgotten your February 25th post stating “not one dime” would be cut from Medicaid.
“Because the poor are plundered and the needy groan, I will now arise,” says the LORD. “I will protect them from those who malign them.” (Psalm 12:5, NIV).

Mr. Alford, when will you have a real, in-person, town hall, instead of another meet and greet, or a rigged, virtual town halls where you get to pick who attends and what questions you’ll answer? Where you have to listen to your constituents instead of just talking at them to tell them your party’s line?

Congressman Mark Alford write this down. Refer back to these notes in 12 months.
This is what is going to happen: the state will purposely set up a series of Medicaid requirements that few people will be able to qualify for.
The Feds will purposely cut funding to the states and say that the state is responsible for funding Medicaid, that it isn’t the Feds problem nor do they have the money (the very richest are going to get that money).
The state will then add even more Medicaid requirements which will kick people off of Medicaid and/or render them ineligible when they apply.
The end result will be millions of people left with no health care and/or no insurance coverage at all. Hospitals will close. Clinics will close. Doctors will leave even more rural areas and relocate. People in rural areas will travel even longer distances than they do now for health care, because these rural areas will now be more barren than they already are. Those areas are barren now due to the deliberate destructive actions of the Republican Party that decimated health care years ago with their refusal to expand the ACA and Medicaid.
People will die.

These cuts will kill people and you know it. Stop posting your Christian bullshit on Sundays when you do this to people.

So let me get this straight- you don’t trust women to make their own decisions & now you don’t trust doctors to make a disability determination??? Oh- and are there jobs? Why don’t you raise taxes on billionaires?

You are a liar

You, Congressman Mark Alford, are spreading disinformation. You lack integrity and are pathetic.

What a tired and absurd rhetoric. I’m sure you would be thrilled if 9 year olds were working in factories again; that would probably be thrilling for you. As a taxpaying citizen, I would prefer to give a sandwich to a child in need than to give a military parade to an overgrown man-child and draft dodger.

How do you look at yourself in the mirror? You need to get a backbone and stand up for what is right and true and good. Yet, you choose to be a bootlicker. How will you look God in the eye when you get to the pearly gates?

I thought nothing was going to be cut from Medicare and Medicaid? Congressman Mark Alford

Your personality such as it is is completely subsumed by Trump. You’re like a Stepford wife

I think you actually believe the garbage you’re pushing.

Were you born an a$$hole or is this something you worked hard at?