The other day someone questioned my veracity when I wrote that #Obama DESTROYED the US #healthcare system for workers and poor people without insurance. I posited MedicAid. They'd never even heard of it. It's free medical care for ths poor and cost-share payment plan for people with incomes high enough to afford if... BUT YOU ONLY PAID WHEN YOU NEEDED IT, and it didn’t bleed you dry every month for unused services.

#Congress' $880 billion #Medicaid question
https://rollcall.com/2025/04/10/congress-now-faces-an-880-billion-medicaid-question/

RiseResistNYC and ActUp joined forces for a "die in" at an #NYC #Tesla Dealership. Dr. Oni Blackstock, who is a major voice in US health equity, gave a speech about the danger this regime poses to #healthcare with cuts to #Medicaid and interference with #trans healthcare.

Quite the show of strength!

#TeslaTakedown #protests #musk #doge #trump

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHzF0hfph2B

Bernie and AOC are now speaking to a crowd of 23,000 in Tucson, bringing their crowd total from the last few days to 86k people.

#trump #musk #doge #oligarchy #medicaid

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHhAEULScdA/

Elon Musk's social insecurity

The billionaire's reckless claims seem intended to manufacture outrage to justify an end to what he refers to as an “entitlement program.”
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/elon-musks-social-insecurity

"Ronald Reagan called #SocialSecurity “a secure & stable base so that older #Americans may live in dignity.”

#ElonMusk calls it a “Ponzi scheme.”
...
differences of opinion between #Musk & #Trump, the White House... pledging not to cut Social Security, #Medicare or #Medicaid benefits"

#USPol #News #US

#BernieSanders saying fight back against #musk etc

Today, #USAID. Tomorrow, #Medicaid.
https://youtube.com/shorts/6DV2rn1q6ew?si=vyIHWgz5d5bYJs0H

#NH #SB123 requires #medicaid pay for ear #acupuncture for people with substance abuse disorder.

This sounds great except that I’m pretty sure this means they’re going to take away people’s #methadone and #Suboxone and make them do ear acupuncture instead.

It says “access to ALL medical treatments” do not let them forget that part. ALL.

That’s not great. And it looks like it’s going to pass.

What it looks like when #billionaires and their #GOP minions rule.

Explode the #deficit with a tax cut for the obscenely wealthy while slashing #Medicaid and #education

File this under: Let’s pull the ladder up

#Plutocracy #Oligarchy #USPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/21/upshot/house-gop-budget-blueprint.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

#HeadsUpNC: With major #Medicaid cuts on the table, this recent NC Health News breakdown shows rural #NC areas would feel greatest impact https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/02/17/medicaid-cuts-in-rural-nc/ #journalism #NCPol (1/3)

Trump no longer needs MAGA voters, so he's gutting #Medicaid & laying off #vets

Dear MAGA voters:

President Trump thanks you for your service, but he's determined you're now expendable. Enjoy your Denny’s omelet surcharge & keep buying MAGA merch & Trump family crypto!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/02/25/trump-cutting-medicaid-republican-budget/80282600007/

Action Alert from Big Sky 55+!
TOMORROW (Thursday, February 6)

Protect Medicaid National Day of Action

Big Sky 55+ is joining Community Catalyst and groups around the country for a Call-in to Protect Medicaid.
#Medicaid #SEIU #MTPol

Congress is putting together their budget, and planning to make substantial cuts to Medicaid and other programs to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy.

Let’s be clear: this “pause” won’t do anything significant nor remedy escalating damages to #America, #Mexico, #Canada, #China, #Panama, #Europe, #Ukraine, #Gaza etc. This #appeasement won’t pause a #criminal, #fascist, and all his servile #lackeys, including #Musk, #Rubio, and all their “little boys”. Neither stops the assault on seniors on #Medicare and #SocialSecurity, the poor on #Medicaid, nor minorities and #CivilRights. Doesn’t buy #eggs and other #essentials.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-tariffs-mexico-troops/

Just a reminder Deferred #Resignation #Email to #FederalEmployees January 28, 2025 https://www.opm.gov/fork/ by #musk employees who hijacked the #OPM office of personnel management server and have repeatedly threatened civil service employees. who provide all of us with #Medicare #medicaid #socialSecurity #Unemployment #Insurance #SNAP #HeadStart #SSI #WIC #affordablecareact #ACA #CHIP #food #nutrition #education #security #poverty #healthcare #aviation #transportation #safety net life in America

Seven of the 10 states most dependant on federal $ are red , and 7 of the 10 least dependent are blue. Biden's green jobs projects are disproportionately in red districts. Rural areas rely much more on federal funding than urban. Rural healthcare doesn't exist without #Medicaid and #CHIP.

The fact that #Trump is hurting his own people so badly would be an interesting story if the press decided to tell it.

#maga #media #fascism

"There is a way to set up your fiscal and welfare institutions that avoids both marriage penalties and marriage bonuses, though this approach is rarely mentioned in the US policy discourse. The solution has three pieces to it:

- Tax all income personally. In our current system, Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are assessed on each individual’s personal income while the federal income tax is assessed on tax units that combine spousal income and then apply different rates based on whether an individual is filing singly, jointly, or as a single parent. We should change the federal income tax so that it is assessed on each individual’s personal income just like Medicare, Social Security, and Unemployment taxes are. This would make it so that tax situations do not change based on marriage.

- Provide welfare benefits personally. Welfare benefit eligibility should also be based on the circumstances of specific individuals not families. Unemployed people should get unemployment benefits regardless of how much money others in their family or household earn. The same for disabled people, elderly people, children, and so on. Some of our benefits already work like this, but others do not. By providing benefits to individuals based on their personal circumstances, you make it so that their benefit situations do not change based on marriage.

- Eliminate means tests. Welfare benefit eligibility and levels should be based on an individual’s current status (e.g., whether they are unemployed, disabled, on leave, a student) and, for income-smoothing benefits, their prior earnings. As with (2), this ensures that family composition does not end up affecting benefit eligibility.

Of course, this just describes the ideal form of the universal social democratic welfare state. This should come as no surprise."

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/universalism-welfare-states-marriage-medicaid

#USA #WelfareState #Universalism #Medicaid #SocialDemocracy

The problem with this article is that the #media hasn't been very empathetic here. This isn't a case of "white man kills family" and the photo is him jet skiing.

The media has actually been trying pretty hard to shame everyone who is being empathetic to him.

The empathy is coming from social media.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/luigi-mangione-racism-media

#MedicareForAll #Medicare #Medicaid #Healthcare #Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #Luigi #UnitedHealth #FreeLuigi #Politics

“If you’re unclear, #terrorism is when the #poor kill the #rich, and #selfdefense is when the rich kill the poor”!

https://www.normalisland.co.uk/p/luigi-mangione-could-face-death-penalty

#MedicareForAll #Medicare #Medicaid #Healthcare #Insurance #UnitedHealthcare #BrianThompson #LuigiMangione #Luigi #UnitedHealth #FreeLuigi #Politics

#socialsecurity #medicare #medicaid #foodstamps #republicans #snap #elonmusk #oligarchs #oligarchy

9 States Poised To End Coverage for Millions if Trump Cuts Medicaid Funding by Phil Galewitz for KFF Health News
#Medicaid #Healthcare
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/medicaid-expansion-funding-trigger-laws-9-states-trump-administration/