🚫 Medicaid work requirements don’t work. They add red tape, strip coverage, and harm people with disabilities, even with so-called exemptions.
📊 The truth: Medicaid helps people work. Work requirements don’t. 🎥By @machledtdc.bsky.social & @reprolawyer.bsky.social
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🚨@nbcnews.com's Berkeley Lovelace Jr. and Sahil Kapur report that GOP's proposed Medicaid cuts could leave millions without coverage. Work requirements & stricter eligibility checks threaten access for millions - Doctors and patients fear worsening health outcomes.
📎 www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
"This will only worsen the Medicaid medical debt crisis and force hospitals to provide even more uncompensated care," shared @repraulruizmd.bsky.social during today's hearing.
We agree. This bill threatens our entire health care infrastructure, especially in communities already stretched thin.
"These paperwork requirements won't stop ineligible people from getting Medicaid, it will strip away the coverage they depend on by design," shared @trahan.house.gov during today's hearing, speaking on work requirements.
Work requirements create barriers & eligible ppl will be the ones who suffer.
Medicaid expansion helps communities stay healthy and lowers the cost of care for everyone.
When more people have coverage, families are stronger, hospitals stay open, and emergency rooms aren’t the only option for care. It’s good policy—and the smart thing to do.
During today’s hearing, Rep. Palmer said, “People who deserve Medicaid won’t lose it.”
The idea that only some deserve care is absurd. We all deserve access to care—period.
Millions of eligible ppl are losing coverage because of red tape & broken systems. If we value care, we must fix the system.
“No one says health care is too affordable. No one says it’s too accessible.”
Thank you, @menendez.house.gov for reminding Congress of the obvious: We should be making it easier to get care — not terminating care for older adults in long-term care, people with disabilities, veterans, & caregivers.
"Who does not need health care?!"
Thank you @repgreglandsman.bsky.social for saying what so many of us are thinking. This bill draws a cruel line between who deserves care and who doesn’t. That’s not just bad policy—it’s dangerous.
You heard The People.
NO CUTS TO MEDICAID!
A9: 48 states have recently extended Medicaid for new moms and pregnant parents with low-incomes – extending health insurance from just 60 days to a full 12 months! Cuts to Medicaid pulls health insurance away from new parents and makes it harder for states to keep these new benefits. #WellnessWed
A2: Medicaid is critical in ensuring that women receive preventive services like mammograms and cervical cancer screenings as well as family planning services. Women who get their coverage through Medicaid expansion also get the full range of #ACA preventive services. #WellnesWed
A1a: For moms-to-be, it provides crucial care in a country with the highest maternal mortality rate among wealthy nations—care that helps close race and health inequities from pregnancy through postpartum. #WellnessWed
🚨The recent #measles outbreak in Texas exposes systemic failures in public health.
Rising misinformation & weakened #vaccine policies, promoted by Health Secretary RFK Jr., put our communities’ lives at risk. It's time for the public to be at the center of public health: commcat.io/3DlrJYF
A8: Millions of people across the country rely on Medicaid for their addiction treatment, overdose prevention, and recovery support, and Medicaid is the largest payor of substance use disorder treatment in the country. #WellnessWednesday #MedicaidMatters
Take away our kids and grandparent’s Medicaid to give tax breaks to billionaires? NO F*#&ING WAY! LISTEN UP, CONGRESS: Families of every race and every place should have the freedom to get the healthcare we need. Call 866-426-2631. Tell Congress #HandsOffMedicaid
#Medicaid cuts have consistently made up much of the total cuts House GOP leaders have been considering. If new goal is $1.5T in spending cuts up from $300B, moderate Rs must push back against it and Freedom Caucus or #Medicaid will face even more draconian cuts. The $1.5T target is also a minimum.
🗣️Tell Congress: You can't cut $2.3 trillion from Medicaid without hurting children, seniors in long-term care, people with disabilities, and people with low-income jobs. Our voice matters. Call your lawmaker now at 866-426-2631 and tell them: 🚨NO CUTS TO OUR HEALTH CARE 🚨
Per Wired/TPM/NY Times, Musk engineers now have alarming access to both ends of the system for federal #Medicaid $ for states: (1) HHS/CMS payment portal system, the interface for states to request funding and get federal approval and (2) Treasury payment system that actually sends the $ to states.
The White House press secretary tries to make it seem that states being blocked from accessing their federal #Medicaid $ was somehow just a technical glitch, rather than an intentional unlawful act that caused chaos over the last 24 hours.
The 2025 poverty level numbers are out. States will start to use them by March/April to determine Medicaid eligibility. They'll be used next fall to determine 2026 Marketplace subsidy eligibility. Here's my summary of how FPL is used in health insurance: www.healthinsurance.org/glossary/fed...
After yesterday's meeting of House Energy and Commerce GOP to discuss #Medicaid cuts Rep. Griffith of VA told Politico that they want to get savings without harming people. But ALL of the cuts being considered would take away coverage/access. #healthpolicy subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...
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👀Love this piece from AR Democrat-Gazette lifting up the powerful Medicaid story collection work from our partners at AR Advocates for Children and Families... helping people turn lived experiences into advocacy 👏
>>https://edition.arkansasonline.com/article/281492166913720
Meaningful access to care...and our idea of "good care"... must include prevention and post-discharge services, otherwise it equates to little more than a band-aid
Every line of this gave me chills. Porsha should be here today, with her two boys. My god.
New brief by @kff.org discusses the status of current health-related lawsuits in key areas of health policy and how they could be impacted by the incoming Trump administration.
Areas of focus include (among others) #ACA #DACA #abortion #genderaffirmingcare #Medicare
www.kff.org/medicare/iss...
@aorris.bsky.social and @sarahl202.bsky.social make it plain: tens of millions of families, friends, and neighbors would lose health care under Republican policy agendas... with these losses, we ALL lose.
❗Communities can't thrive when they aren't healthy
‼️Our health isn't a piggy bank for tax cuts
Another possible threat to today’s record-low uninsurance? The incoming administration is reportedly exploring whether it can impound - or not spend - funds that Congress has provided in legislation. @centeronbudget.bsky.social FAQs explain why this is contrary to the Constitution: bit.ly/4g04BMW
The GOP will revive the "terrible idea" of #Medicaid work requirements. "So what does that accomplish? It’s very effective at throwing eligible people out of Medicaid," writes LA Times columnist Michael Hiltzik. READ HERE::: @hiltzikm.bsky.social www.latimes.com/business/sto... @latimes.com
