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Eighty Hours or Your Health Insurance
Read more . . . →As of October 1, if you’re on Medicaid in over forty states, you have to document eighty hours of work every month or you lose your health insurance. Most people on Medicaid already work. Congress just wanted the paperwork. The forms aren’t for verification. They’re there because enough people will miss one and lose coverage that the budget projection looks better. Five to ten million people are projected to lose their insurance over this. Half the adults at risk already deal with poor physical or mental health but don’t qualify for disability exemptions. Bad knees, depression nobody diagnosed, a condition...
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Five Hundred Dollars and a Closed Hospital
Read more . . . →Trump is mailing $500 “Obamacare refund” checks to about a million people while the bill he signed last year cut a trillion dollars from Medicaid. Read that again. A trillion. Three hundred and eighty rural hospitals are now at risk of closing, and the guy who killed their funding is sending out rebate checks like a car dealership running a Labor Day sale. The total payout is $500 million. He cut two thousand times that from the program that keeps those hospitals open. The math is not complicated. The check is a prop. It is a photo op with an...
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Work Requirements Don't Create Jobs. They Create Paperwork.
Read more . . . →Nebraska just became the first state to tell poor people they need to file monthly paperwork proving they work 80 hours to keep their health insurance. Miss the form or confuse DHHS’s bureaucracy — coverage gone. Not because you stopped working. Because you failed a government quiz while sick and broke. This is what “work requirements” actually are. Not a ladder, not a job program — a filter. The Urban Institute says Nebraska alone will kick 25,000 people off Medicaid from this. The CBO found that work requirements will strip coverage from over 5 million Americans by 2034 and produce...
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The Big Beautiful Bill Is Working — If You're Already Rich
Read more . . . →They called it the One Big Beautiful Bill. Cut nearly a trillion dollars from Medicaid — the healthcare program covering the poorest Americans — and handed it back to billionaires as tax cuts. Signed on July 4th. Nothing says freedom like stripping healthcare from 16 million people so the top 10% can pocket an extra $13,600 a year. Now the enforcement is live. Nebraska started Medicaid work requirements on May 1st. The paperwork is complicated by design — miss a form, lose your coverage. People who ARE working are getting cut because the bureaucracy is built to fail them. And...
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