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Imagine you wake up in the middle of a maze and you don't know how you got there. A voice from a loudspeaker tells you that there's only one way out and you have to find it. You have no map; just the promise that you'll find it eventually. Unbeknownst to you, sensors have been installed under your skin to inflict increasing amounts of pain the more you move around the maze. Often times this pain is so much that it brings you to tears. You wonder if you should keep going but the voice from the loudspeaker implores you not to give up and that you're almost there. But you've been at this for hours, seemingly have made no progress, and you're in a high level of emotional distress.

Do you...

a) continue to search for the exit, despite the often excruciating pain being inflicted upon yourself, knowing you'll never get out if you don't keep trying, even though there's no guarantee that there's even an exit or if there is one, that you'll find it

or

b) resign yourself that you'll never get out and just sit where you are, avoiding any more pain?

What would you choose?

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-gop-wants-to-implement-medicaid-work-requirements-heres-what-that-means
The GOP wants to implement Medicaid work requirements. Here’s what that means

More than a half million of the poorest Americans could be left without health insurance under legislation passed by House Republicans that would require people to work in exchange for health care coverage through Medicaid.

It’s one of dozens of provisions tucked into a GOP bill that would allow for an increase in the debt limit but curb government spending over the next decade. The bill is unlikely to become law, though. It is being used by House Republicans to draw Democrats to the negotiating table and avoid a debt default.

Democrats have strongly opposed the Medicaid work requirement provision, saying it won’t incentivize people to get a job and will drive up the number of uninsured in the country.

Here’s a look at how the proposal might save taxpayers money but cost some Americans access to health care coverage.
Who would be required to work?

The work requirements say able-bodied adults ages 19 to 55 who don’t have children or other dependents would be required to work, train for a job or perform community service to stay on Medicaid. They would have to put in at least 80 hours a month to stay on the government-sponsored health care coverage.

About 84 million people are enrolled in Medicaid, and the Congressional Budget Office estimates 15 million would be subject to the requirement. The Health and Human Services Department, however, predicts millions more — about a third of enrollees altogether — would be required to work.
Why are work requirements controversial?

Republicans say the move would help push Americans into jobs that eventually might put them in a position to move off of government aid.