#medicaid

Once again, the fascists weren't smart enough to make their evil plans work. They thought they could destroy what's left of US healthcare and consolidate power before they got the blowback. Because these people don't understand how anything works, we EVEN WARNED THEM ABOUT THIS. And they still did it. Sorry, guys, but your voters wanted to be racist, not poor! https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/03/gop-plan-to-punt-health-care-cuts-didnt-work-01105384#healthcare #Medicaid #Democrats #Republicans #Midterms #MAGA

The proposed change would slash reimbursements public ambulance providers receive through Medicaid & could mean a loss of hundreds of dollars per transport. More at https://www.jems.com/ems-management/one-big-beautiful-bill-ems-revenue-collapse & https://www.pressdemocrat.com/2026/06/02/sonoma-county-public-ambulance-providers-brace-for-possible-federal-funding-cut #EMS #Ambulance #Medicaid #Oregon

That #Google co-founder #Brin has spent over 100 million dollars to defeat Prop 40 is all you need to know to vote for it. Here is the endorsement from the Sacramento Bee. "We agree that Washington should fix #Medicaid funding, and we agree Sacramento should develop a better tax system. But neither government has done so, and no opponent who met with our editorial board presented a funded alternative to Prop. 40." https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/california-pass-billionaire-tax-proposition-173000988.html #USPol #California

Fuck "No Labels" but they do provide information about how much Congress has "worked" this year: 383 hours total for the House in 2026, through the end of August. As is being pointed out on other platforms, the House would not meet the 80 hour per month work requirements they passed for #Medicaid.

As a result of the Rethuglican "One Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law last year (that the Dems caved on), millions of USians are receiving notice that as of January 1, they no longer qualify for Medicaid health insurance due to work requirements. If you lose your job, and your health insurance with it, too bad. If you can't find a job, too bad. The downstream effects of this will be catastrophic for the uninsured. Hospitals and clinics will close. #Healthcare #USPol #Medicaid

In my rural state of #Vermont, and I presume others, all the #hospitals have ceased to operate birthing centers and #OBGYN clinics due to the Big Beautiful Budget elimination of #Medicaid and imminent scrapping, at this years' end after midterm elections, to the #Medicare reimbursements upon which hospitals have also been made to rely. Meanwhile the Private #Insurance (reimbursement-collection & service-denial) Industry has been greenlighted to raise premiums out of reach for a third to half of households while remaining nonresponsible for any such coverage. People are opting not to seek care. Probably all coincidental. #healthcare #medicalNews #healthNews #financialNews #redistribution #plutocracy #plunder #healthcareIsAHumanRight #nvma Ectopic Pregnancy Deaths Have Nearly Doubled. It’s Worse in States With Abortion Bans. https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ectopic-pregnancy-deaths-have-nearly-doubled-its-worse-states-abortion-bans

Nurses and activists marched together nationwide to protest ICE and Palantir receiving protected information from #Medicaid. This shouldn't even need to be said: healthcare should have no relationship with law enforcement over immigration. Domestic violence or child abuse, that's one thing. But nobody should be using healthcare data to round up harmless people and put them in concentration camps. FFS. https://www.kut.org/health/2026-08-27/atx-texas-austin-protesters-palantir-healthcare-nurses-protest#ICE #FuckICE #Texas #healthcare #Medicaid #Palantir

Dying? It's the #Workhouse for you!!! #Trump Admin Argues Even #TerminallyIll Patients Shouldn't Be Exempt From #Medicaid #WorkRequirements | Common Dreams https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-medicaid-work-requirements-2677293170 #USPol #Scrooge #TrumpIsACruelBastard #TrumpSucks

On July 30, 1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson made Medicare and Medicaid law by signing H.R. 6675 in Independence, Missouri. Former President Truman was issued the very first Medicare card during the ceremony. #Medicare #Medicaid

The first presidential candidate to include a proposal for #UniversalHealthcare was #TheodoreRoosevelt in 1912, but the first tentative, partial step toward it was taken by #LyndonBJohnson on #ThisDayInHistory in 1965 with the addition of #Medicare & #Medicaid to #SocialSecurity.

Rob Bresnahan says one thing and does another. He said he wasn't going to cut healthcare, but he did. He lied to #PA08 voters over and over again. #Medicaid

In 2020 as Kentucky faced a spike of deadly overdoses, Gov. Andy Beshear set out to help more people access drug treatment by loosening Medicaid spending controls. But as the costs piled up, so did the warnings that the system was being abused. https://www.propublica.org/article/andy-beshear-kentucky-opioid-drug-crisis-medicaid-spending-fraud?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post #News #Kentucky #AndyBeshear #Medicaid #Fraud #Healthcare #Health #Drugs

"Democratic attorneys general and the Justice Department are facing off for the first time in court Tuesday over the fine line between being sick and being 'medically frail,' a distinction that could cost Medicaid recipients their health benefits." https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/28/trump-dems-court-battle-over-medicaid-work-requirements-01013114 #healthcare #medicaid #insurance #disabilities #work #HealthPolicy #courts

https://www.opb.org/article/2026/07/29/oregon-grocery-retail-medicaid-employees-highest-number/ Who would have thought? Oh the many years of growing corporate welfare, inequality, and stock buy backs. #oregon #medicare #medicaid #usa #walmart #mcdonalds #amazon

RFK Jr. pauses $1bn Medicaid funding to California and Minnesota (Blue State attacks and lying AI). Stop paying the Fed now, taxation without representation’ The Trump admin isn’t proving any fraud before cutting off critical Medicaid funding - they’re relying on AI-generated fraud flags to justify pausing payments that MILLIONS of Americans depend on. #Medicaid #California #Minnesota #AI #Trump

Mitch McConnell is still not dead, thanks to access to the best health care in the US, as all of Congress has. If he was in the situation millions in the US are in, uninsured, McConnell might still be dead today. https://www.courier-journal.com/videos/news/politics/2026/07/27/new-photo-mitch-mcconnell-recovering-rehab-alive-senator-kentucky-update-fancy-farm-congress-votes/91066754007/ #MitchMcConnell #Healthcare #UniversalHealthcare #Medicaid

Taxpayers spend about $2 billion annually on Medicaid for Amazon and Walmart American taxpayers are spending billions providing #Medicaid to hundreds of thousands of employees of #Amazon and #Walmart Amazon and Walmart are two of the largest and most profitable companies in the country — collectively generating $100 billion in profits in 2025 — but many of their employees still qualify for Medicaid because their take-home pay hovers around (or below) the poverty line https://popular.info/p/taxpayers-spend-about-2-billion-annually

CMS Requires More Restrictive Definition of Medical Frailty in New #Medicaid Work Requirements Rule #USPol No longer, for example, will people with cancer, HIV, or Parkinson’s, or countless other health issues, be exempt from work requirements. The new rule just published, mandated by the GOP and Trump give-a-way welfare package to rich, call The Big Beautiful Bill, is over 400 damn pages long, and is harsher and more restrictive than states first imagined it would be. The rule takes effect in Jan 2028. People must prove they are too "frail" by cruel GOP standards, to work to keep their Medicaid health care. A doctor's statement won't be enough. Medicaid will use a variety of methods to test, including AI, to determine, and at the end of the day, it will be up to a bureaucrat's judgement and not a set of written criteria. One of many new articles about it: https://www.kff.org/quick-insights/cms-requires-more-restrictive-definition-of-medical-frailty-in-new-medicaid-work-requirements-rule/

New #Medicaid restrictions will force doctors to do something they're not trained to do. https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/medicaid/122295

BREAKING: Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. #Kennedy Jr. announced that the Centers for #Medicare & #Medicaid Services is putting a hold on more than $1 billion in Medicaid funding to #California and Minnesota over concerns of possible fraud and noncompliance. #FOX enjoying announcement.