Among the able-bodied adults that Conway and congressional Republicans have in mind ― that is, non-elderly adults on Medicaid who don’t qualify for disability benefits ― 79 percent are in families where someone works and 59 percent have jobs themselves, according to the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.

The problem is that many work in low-paying, temporary, or part-time jobs that don’t offer coverage. In 2014, just 30 percent of working adults with incomes at or below the poverty line had employer-sponsored coverage available to them.

Well, that's OK: I'm sure those tax cuts for the wealthy mean that employers will use the money they don't send to the IRS to fund health care coverage for their workers, right?

Yeah, I thought we could use a bitter laugh.