“After the court decision, more than 11,000 additional comments were filed with HHS, the vast majority of them revealing why the waiver project would reduce Medicaid coverage, restrict access to health care services, and harm the health of Kentuckians.”
Tag: medicaid
Locked out of Medicaid
“I got my information and I tried to fax it to them. The fax wouldn’t go through, so I tried calling them, and I never got an answer on the phone. I went up there and they were out of the office…you can only try so many times before it’s like, ‘OK, you’re closing the door in my face.‘”
This will literally kill thousands of people, primarily disabled people.
ACA Open Enrollment: If You Buy Health Coverage in the Individual Market
“If you buy your health plan on your own (rather than getting coverage through an employer), you may purchase a 2019 plan either through your state’s health insurance marketplace or off-exchange. If you are low-income, you may be eligible for Medicaid coverage.”
ACA Open Enrollment: If You Buy Health Coverage in the Individual Market
3 Arkansans Sue, Calling Medicaid Work Rules Unconstitutional
The new work requirements for Medicaid in Arkansas are potentially unconstitutional, according to a new lawsuit.
Trump readies new round of controversial Medicaid changes
Trump officials move to allow Medicaid work requirements
Y’all please reblog because this is fucking terrifying. It’s yet another attempt to sabotage any attempt at the poor receiving any kind of health care. God forbid you ever get fired and can’t declare yourself permanently disabled.
Make no mistake: people WILL DIE from this.
Contact your reps however you can. Use Resistbot and more importantly, just spread this shit around because I KNOW there’s a bunch of you on here that are directly affected by this.
Please share far and wide.
It’s murder. Murder by apathy. Murder by politics. Murder by making sick people choose between bankrupting their families or dying to save them from that fate.
There’s a reason why they’re doing this. Why they’re trying to bury the ADA. The ACA. Food stamps. Every social program.
They want to hoard even more money for the rich, for the military industrial complex, for themselves. And they’ll literally kill sick and poor people for that goal. Because we’re nothing to them. We’re not worth a damn thing. If we die? If we go bankrupt? Homeless? Starve? They don’t care. It’s a benefit for their desires to be richer if we’re dead.
This isn’t just politics. This isn’t policy differences. Calling it that santizes and disguises the truth: we, as a people, let other human beings die, starve, go bankrupt and homeless every single day. Those in power are just trying to expand that to more of us now.
If any of y’all think “this is murder” is an exaggeration… Let me paint you a picture.
My clients are all disabled, in some way or another. They all have a serious physical disability, chronic illness, or psychiatric diagnosis that prevents them from working. They are also all homeless. And every single one is on Medicaid.
And, I bet many of you didn’t know, but dictating who gets access to certain kinds of housing (specifically housing for people with serious mental illness- permanent housing) is in part determined by how high your Medicaid usage is.
So, where does this shit leave us? Well, first off, it leaves my clients without any kind of insurance. All of them need medication, all of them go to the doctor and/or hospital frequently. All of them rely on Medicaid. So add a work requirement to Medicaid, and where does that leave people who are physically and mentally incapable of working? Yeah. In the fucking dust.
Now, take away their Medicaid, and their chances of getting into permanent housing drop, too. So not only do they not have the means to get their medications and see their doctors and go to the hospital when they fucking NEED TO, now they no longer qualify for most of the housing that I am trying to get them into. So, they end up back on the street or in dangerous, overcrowded shelters with NO medication, NO doctors, NO hospitals, and almost no fucking chance of getting into housing because they have no Medicaid because they apparently need to work to have Medicaid and they CANNOT. FUCKING. WORK.
SO this is murder. This is murder of people like my clients, who rely on Medicaid and related services. This will be the death of hundreds if not thousands of Americans.
I don’t really have the energy for it, but I looked into things a little.
Kentucky, South Dakota, Alabama, Louisiana, South Carolina, Mississippi, Kansas, Indiana, and Arkansas are the 9 states I could find named as seeking the work requirement. [x]
Kentucky passed their requirement the day after the article link at the top of this post, on Jan 12th. [x]
Indiana passed their’s on Feb 2nd. [x]
Kansas seems to have possibly enacted this sometime late Jan, but could still be in the proposal stage. [x]
Virginia is the most recent, in the past few days of late Feb. [x]This IS happening. It’s not a posturing thing, or a goal they have. They are acting on it NOW.
Unless I get approved for disability this year, I won’t have health insurance next year. Like, I just won’t. Because Indiana doesn’t care about people who can’t work.
I F*CKING KNEW IT!!!
That orange assh*ole is always doing something evil to distract from something even more evil!
The plight of those immigrant children is emphatically not a distraction or a less significant evil. Dragging children from the arms of their parents and putting them in concentration camps is a crime against humanity, is what it is.
The Trump administration wants both. They want ethnic cleansing and destruction of the social safety net. Neither is acceptable. Defend immigrants and the poor, disabled, and elderly.
Do not fall for the lie that you have to pick one or the other.
While Trump Circus distracted us, 37K eviction notices went out to nursing homes – Being Liberal
This is unconscionable on every level imaginable.
While Trump Circus distracted us, 37K eviction notices went out to nursing homes – Being Liberal
How Medicaid Work Requirements Will Harm Low-Wage Workers
“Contrary to a common misconception, [taking away Medicaid coverage from people who don’t work a specified number of hours each month] won’t just hurt non-working enrollees; it also will likely cause many working people to lose coverage.”
Also, some enrollees who meet work requirements may still lose coverage because they get tripped up by red tape and paperwork.
A bigger part of the whole point than has tended to get discussed much.
The more bureaucratic obstacles they throw up in the way, the fewer people will be able to successfully navigate them. (And if course the more paperwork agencies have to “lose”.) As part of a longer term strategy to pay out as little as possible.
Tennessee House approves bill seeking federal OK for Medicaid work requirement
The House in Tennessee approved a bill asking permission from the federal government to have a Medicaid work requirement.
Tennessee House approves bill seeking federal OK for Medicaid work requirement
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