28 pointsby littlexsparkee8 hours ago2 comments
  • WarOnPrivacy8 hours ago

        The strict Medicaid work rules that the White House released
        this week are likely to put ongoing treatments in jeopardy.
    
        States must put the work requirements into effect by January 1.
    
        States must "make the changes, test the changes to make sure 
        they're not going to break the system, and then go live," 
    
        "It takes states literally months — usually years — to make the
        types of changes to their systems that they needed to make for 
        this new rule,"
    
        The nearly 400-page interim final rule released Monday makes
        that process even harder. 
        
        [During the previous] months, federal officials met with states
        informally and states understood that people with conditions
        where continuous health insurance coverage was really important
        would be exempt.
    
        "What the [new] rule says, as published, is that that's actually
        not enough,"
    
        "The condition or the disease needs to be actively interfering 
        with your ability to work. So people with early stage cancer who
        are in radiation treatment but still have the capacity to work, 
        or people who have HIV but can still technically work, are not
        exempted from the work requirement."
    
        Dr Oz pitched this as "a path to prosperity"
  • susiecambria8 hours ago
    I've been involved in social services public policy since 1997 and this one of the meanest, hateful, despicable sets of rulemaking I have ever seen. It's almost as though the president and his team hate poor people. Or maybe that it's that they are dismissive of poor people.

    I can't do anything to change the rules right now, but I can and will engage in a ton of GOTV work for elections this year.