> Trump Admin Argues Even Terminally Ill Patients Shouldn’t Be Exempt From Medicaid Work Requirements

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/10/the-cruelt...

I'm trying to understand what's outrageous about requiring a person with HIV, Parkinson's, prostate cancer, or some uncurable but otherwise chronic/manageable disease to document that they are unable to work.

Are we supposed to accept the idea that an IV drug user sharing needles contracts HIV and they never have to work again even though they'll be getting medication which completely suppresses the virus and will live a largely normal lifespan?

Honestly things like this show me the President has to much power. There should be government agencies where no political party can touch it without significant oversight and approval from both the president and both houses of congress.

Medicare, Medicaid, FBI, FCC, FAA, The Fed, and more all should be outside admin control of the president and any single party or group of individuals. Only when you have a 2/3s majority of both the houses and the president should you be able to make such broad sweeping policy changes.

ie I'm dead in 5 years from my conditions, so when should I be exempt?