2/3’s of those on Medicaid do work, they just aren’t paid enough or given enough hours to get off Medicaid - and this is often a deliberate choice by employers to avoid having to pay benefits; they’d much rather have the taxpayer subsidize the corporation.

Most of the other third aren’t working due to illness, being in school, or because they’re taking care of other people, all of which are currently allowed.

You want to lower Medicaid and food stamps enrollment? For every employee a company has on Medicaid, food stamps, or other public assistance, the company has to pay that amount plus 10% as a penalty to the government. And if someone is working multiple jobs, then each if the employers has to pay in the full amount of assistance they’re getting. If you can’t afford to be in business without the government subsidizing your company, maybe your company shouldn’t exist.

Do a phased-in approach, hitting the companies with the highest number of subsidized employees (looking at you, Walmart and similar) first, then going for companies with lower numbers as time passes. Oh, and none of this bullshit like they pulled during the pandemic, where McDonald’s suddenly counted as a “small business” because they’re mostly franchises.

Start there with getting people off public assistance, then get back to me about sending people to work on farms.