As expected, and I’m shocked they took this long, Donald Duck’s administration announced that they will allow states to institute work requirements for Medicaid recipients.
A few panic-staving reminders: Continue reading
As expected, and I’m shocked they took this long, Donald Duck’s administration announced that they will allow states to institute work requirements for Medicaid recipients.
A few panic-staving reminders: Continue reading
I keep thinking of this article by Jill Lepore, about the ways in which the health and safety of children have been politicized and destroyed by decades of government budget-slashers.
State child welfare programs are block-granted. I dare you to read Lepore’s article about the consequences of limiting the resources available to pay for essential human services. I dare you to come away from that article believing that capping funding for the medical care of vulnerable people is anything but cruelty.
The Senate version of the AHCA has some stupid-ass name I refuse to engage. I will, however, engage with any so-and-so who dares come at me with any argument about anything good about this bill. No one likes it. Except the people that pay GOPpers to destroy our civil society. Continue reading
The National Academy for State Health Policy created this helpful chart comparing the ACA and the March 2017 version of the GOP’s repeal/replace bill. This 18-page chart will scratch your wonk itch when you’re like “What about delivery system reform?!” and “Whither CHIP?”
The Kaiser Family Foundation created a more user-friendly interface for much of the same info plus bonus options to compare ACA, AHCA and other repeal/replace proposals.
Wonk away!
My phone alerted me to today’s AHCA garbage while I was listening to one of my favorite Sappy von Feelingston podcasts, Strangers. Intrepid podcaster and Danish immigrant Lea Thau has launched an intellectual suicide mission: to interview, up close with the dandruff and drool, Trump voters. The series attempts to bridge the emotional and moral partisan divide by putting Lea–a Scandinavian/Angeleno liberal–into these Voldetrump homes. Thau is trying to heal us. To understand what the cluck happened to our country. And, a tinch, to assuage some understandable but frustrating guilt about her insular, coastal, creative class liberalism.
Two broad problems with Thau’s project: