{"id":2458087,"date":"2025-07-10T16:30:02","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:30:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-dont-call-it-welfare\/"},"modified":"2025-07-10T16:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T20:31:34","slug":"philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-dont-call-it-welfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-dont-call-it-welfare\/","title":{"rendered":"Philip Bump Says Medicaid Isn&#8217;t Welfare If You Don&#8217;t Call It Welfare"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fphilip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-dont-call-it-welfare%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2458087&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article criticizes Washington Post columnist Philip Bump for his argument that Medicaid shoudl not be considered welfare simply because it is labeled as health insurance. Bump defends recent work requirements imposed on Medicaid recipients by the &#8220;One Big Beautiful Bill Act,&#8221; which mandate that able-bodied adults must work, attend school, or perform community service to maintain eligibility. He contends that Medicaid funds go to healthcare providers treating patients, not directly to individuals, and thus differs from customary welfare programs. The author of the article rejects this reasoning, asserting that since Medicaid is funded by taxpayer dollars to provide free services to low-income individuals, it is indeed a form of welfare. The article portrays Bump as deliberately misleading readers to obscure the nature of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ca-legislature-unanimously-passes-nations-first-state-funded-guaranteed-income-plan-newsom-advisor-says-the-next-stop-is-the-fed-govt\/\" title=\"CA Legislature Unanimously Passes Nation\u2019s First State-Funded Guaranteed Income Plan, Newsom Advisor Says: \u2018The Next Stop Is The Fed Govt\u2019\">government assistance programs<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"article-body body-md bdr-top-black pt-30\">\n<div class=\"row justify-content-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12\">\n<figure class=\"article-thumbnail mb-30 mb-sm-60\">\n<div class=\"article-thumbnail-caption d-flex align-items-center justify-content-md-end label-xs mt-15\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-camera me-10\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Image Credit<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WXCJBdiBUiY\">MSNBC\/YouTube<\/a>       <\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-share text-center article-share-simple\">\n<h5 class=\"label-sm mb-10\">Share<\/h5>\n<ul class=\"article-share-list list-unstyled m-0 p-0\">\n<li class=\"article-share-facebook m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/10\/washpost-dork-philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-simply-dont-call-it-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-facebook\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Facebook<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-twitter m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=WashPost%20Dork%20Philip%20Bump%20Says%20Medicaid%20Isn%E2%80%99t%20Welfare%20If%20You%20Simply%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Call%20It%20Welfare&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/10\/washpost-dork-philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-simply-dont-call-it-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Twitter<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-truth-social m-0\">       <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/share?title=WashPost%20Dork%20Philip%20Bump%20Says%20Medicaid%20Isn%E2%80%99t%20Welfare%20If%20You%20Simply%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Call%20It%20Welfare&amp;url=https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/10\/washpost-dork-philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-simply-dont-call-it-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" fill=\"currentColor\" style=\"width:36px;height:auto;\" viewbox=\"0 0 92 93\"><path d=\"M69.444 55.716H56.772v10.37h12.672zM64.487 37.795V27.32H38.666v38.664h13.18v-28.19zM21.05 27.321h12.653v10.471H21.051z\" https:><\/path><\/svg>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article on Truth Social<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-link m-0\">       <button data-clipboard-text=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/10\/washpost-dork-philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-simply-dont-call-it-welfare\/\" data-tooltip-content=\"Copied!\" class=\"clip tooltip\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-link-variant\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Copy Article Link<\/span>       <\/button>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\">       <a href=\"mailto:?subject=WashPost%20Dork%20Philip%20Bump%20Says%20Medicaid%20Isn%E2%80%99t%20Welfare%20If%20You%20Simply%20Don%E2%80%99t%20Call%20It%20Welfare&amp;body=%20https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/10\/washpost-dork-philip-bump-says-medicaid-isnt-welfare-if-you-simply-dont-call-it-welfare\/\" target=\"_blank\">         <i class=\"mdi mdi-email\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>         <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Share Article via Email<\/span>       <\/a>     <\/li>\n<li class=\"article-share-email m-0\"><span class=\"printfriendly pf-button  pf-alignleft\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\" rel=\"nofollow\" onclick=\"window.print(); return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>It&rsquo;s always a good time to identify the Washington Post&rsquo;s Philip Bump as a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/27\/washington-posts-incurious-philip-bump-says-the-media-should-just-give-kamala-the-benefit-of-the-doubt\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">duplicitous little dork<\/a>, so let&rsquo;s look at his latest column in which he argues that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >government-run health insurance<\/a> for low-income individuals (and their unfortunate children) is not a form of welfare if you simply call it something else.<\/p>\n<p>Bump, who famously <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2014\/05\/19\/the-washington-post-is-super-confused-about-where-babies-come-from\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">doesn&rsquo;t know<\/a> where babies come from, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/iPITY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> Thursday in opposition to recent work requirements placed on Medicaid recipients by way of the just-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act. For the uninitiated, the new law mandates, among other things, that able-bodied adults <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/medicaid-undergo-significant-changes-due-big-beautiful-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">prove<\/a> they&rsquo;re working a certain number of hours per month, are in school, or are performing community service to be eligible for Medicaid. In other words, it ensures recipients are making themselves useful to some degree and not just receiving free health insurance while getting high at home.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-1461840392\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This is identical to how unemployment insurance works &mdash; a recipient who lost his job routinely proves to the government he&rsquo;s attempting to find work in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/californians-receiving-unemployment-must-start-looking-for-work-next-month-to-remain-eligible\/\" title=\"Californians Receiving Unemployment Must Start Looking For ... Next Month To Remain Eligible\">continue receiving financial assistance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone knows these types of government programs more broadly as &ldquo;welfare.&rdquo; But Bump proposed in his article that there&rsquo;s a difference between government-run financial benefits that go to &ldquo;dudes loafing on their couches,&rdquo; and government-run financial benefits that go to someone <em>who provides a service<\/em> to dudes loafing on their couches. &ldquo;[I]t&rsquo;s useful to point out that this whole idea of Medicaid recipients somehow mooching off the system is bizarre,&rdquo; wrote Bump. &ldquo;Medicaid isn&rsquo;t a welfare program, it&rsquo;s a health insurance program. The money being spent on Medicaid recipients isn&rsquo;t money going to dudes loafing on their couches; it&rsquo;s money going to doctors treating those dudes for medical conditions.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>You see? Because the government-run financial benefits go directly to healthcare providers who then treat the customers who <em>paid<\/em> using those financial benefits, it&rsquo;s not welfare! Amazing!<\/p>\n<p>This would be like the government giving Red Lobster money to feed people who don&rsquo;t work and insisting it&rsquo;s not welfare.<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&rsquo;t be silly! There&rsquo;s no welfare there. It&rsquo;s shellfish coverage!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Healthcare, like every other service, isn&rsquo;t free. Someone has to pay for it. And if that someone isn&rsquo;t the person receiving the service, then it&rsquo;s someone else. And if that someone else is the government, which pays using American taxpayer dollars, then it&rsquo;s welfare.<\/p>\n<p>You can just look at Philip Bump and assume he&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/09\/01\/washington-posts-philip-bump-embarrasses-himself-while-defending-joe-bidens-corruption\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">really, really dumb<\/a>, but that would be a mistake. The reality is he&rsquo;s smart enough to know he&rsquo;s lying because he does it all the time in order to mislead anyone unlucky enough to be exposed to his byline.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Eddie Scarry is the D.C. columnist at The Federalist and author of &#8220;<a href=\"\/\/www.amazon.com\/Liberal-Misery-Hateful-Everything-Everyone\/dp\/1637584350\">Liberal Misery: How the Hateful Left Sucks Joy Out of Everything and Everyone<\/a>.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Eddie Scarry<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eScarry\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@eScarry<\/a>           <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6 d-flex justify-content-center justify-content-md-end mt-15 mt-md-0\">        <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/author\/eddiescarry\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">More Articles<\/a>     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"article-tags bdr-top-black mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-15 pt-md-45\">\n<ul class=\"list-unstyled d-flex flex-wrap align-items-center mb-0 mx-n10 p-0\">\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/media\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Media<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/medicaid\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Medicaid<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/one-big-beautiful-bill-act\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">One Big Beautiful Bill Act<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/philip-bump\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Philip Bump<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/taxpayer-dollars\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">taxpayer dollars<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/washington-post\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Washington Post<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/welfare\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">Welfare<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"mt-10 mx-10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/work-requirements\/\" class=\"btn btn-black btn-small\">work requirements<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image Credit MSNBC\/YouTube Share Article on Facebook, Twitter, Truth Social, Email. 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