Well when you hear a Republican official say that poor kids getting free lunch is "mooching" off the government but supports raising their salary or raising the debt ceiling so the wealthy gets tax breaks then you understand everything you need to about the Republicans
Medicaid pays for my son’s day program in Chicago. The employers there as well as the people served would all be screwed if this does go through. And with zero explanation or justification. Disability is not a red or blue issue and we already don’t fund it properly.
News stations should be camped out at doctors offices and hospitals across the land, interviewing all the people who are getting turned away from getting the healthcare they need TODAY because Medicaid has been effectively shut down.
Funding already approved by Congress. Our tax dollars. T & his criminal enterprise don't even pay taxes. Where is Congress? @aoc.bsky.social @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @whitehouse.senate.gov
Dems (with a few exceptions like AOC) have been very weak on all this. This is the time for calling this out forcefully in plain English and explaining how these things will impact everyday people.
Not just the working poor. How does this impact the programs and services that are provided by persons with disabilities who receive the Medicaid waiver? Many businesses rely on that funding to operate and serve the disability community.
Also most recipients of SSI gets Medicaid. My son gets SSI and Medicaid. I get it because I can't work being his sole caregiver. This will impact our income, Medicaid, SNAP benefits, his free breakfast and lunch, and our rent assistance through HUD. Not sure what will happen going forward
It’s a sweeping wipe out of all of our supports. And they were already meager. Then if they go after ssdi we will be putting people out on the streets. They have talked about bringing back institutions. Maybe this is their plan, privatized of course. Numerous jobs lost too.
My best friend works for the Children's Division of the Missouri Department of Social Services. This is going to be a huge disaster for social services and will get worse the longer the funding is withheld.
Yup. The county people who voted for tax cuts are just going about their day as if everything is normal. Shit won’t get real for them until their landscapers and cleaners get deported. They even stopped bitching about groceries even though eggs went up here by $2/dozen in the past couple of weeks.
Okay, I checked Missouri, Illinois, and the federal Medicaid site and they all appear to be working. Am I wrong? If it’s true, by all means people need to know. If it is not true, we need to stop the rumor mill.
Well, of course they did. He has to make the poor so desperate that they’ll fill all those jobs that have been vacated by undocumented immigrants, so they can take their children to the fields with them or send them to work in packing plants.
I mean, the majority of his supporters are the (white) working poor so they deserve to feel what they've done first. We'll all suffer together, surely, but they asked for it to happen.
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Of course, he won’t be the one feeling that “temporary hardship” so it’s all ok.
Most people using Medicaid are elderly and in nursing homes.
I don't feel good. Just sad.
In order to "protect women's sports" I would think our first step would be to make sure that girls can grow up healthy and whole.
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