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Critics of the new plan say that confining people to a site on the city’s outskirts threatens #CivilLiberties & warn that the promised services may not materialize. The efforts coincide with deep cuts to #Medicaid, which could thwart the project’s financing.
“I’m super anxious about it,” said Jen Plumb, a physician & Democratic state senator who calls the promise of high-quality #medical care “pie in the sky.”
#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #plutocracy #USpol
During a hearing on Oct 15, Illston said the layoff notices that started going out on or around Oct 10 appeared to be politically motivated and not well thought out. About 4,100 layoff notices have gone out, some sent to work email addresses that furloughed employees are not allowed to check. Some personnel were called back to work, without pay, to issue layoff notices.
#Trump #law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
Democratic lawmakers are demanding that any deal to reopen the federal government address expiring #healthcare subsidies that have made #HealthInsurance more affordable for millions of Americans. They also want any government funding bill to reverse the #Medicaid cuts in #Trump’s big tax breaks & spending cuts bill passed this summer.
#law #OrchestratedShutdown #PowerGrab #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #plutocracy
“Rural hospitals are often operating on very thin margins,” she told host Matthew Peddie. “They have fewer patients, lower reimbursements, and rising labor and equipment costs, which makes it difficult to sustain high-quality care locally.”
#healthcare #hospitals #RuralHealth #medicaid #medicare #florida
“Rural hospitals are often operating on very thin margins,” she told host Matthew Peddie. “They have fewer patients, lower reimbursements, and rising labor and equipment costs, which makes it difficult to sustain high-quality care locally.”
#healthcare #hospitals #RuralHealth #medicaid #medicare #florida
Republicans. They're not sending their best.
Trump promises to cut drug prices by 1,500%—then doubles them instead
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/27/2345606/-Trump-promises-to-cut-drug-prices-by-1-500-then-doubles-them-instead
#DrugPrices #BigFuglyBill #BBB #Medicare #Medicaid #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Republicans. They're not sending their best.
Trump promises to cut drug prices by 1,500%—then doubles them instead
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/9/27/2345606/-Trump-promises-to-cut-drug-prices-by-1-500-then-doubles-them-instead
#DrugPrices #BigFuglyBill #BBB #Medicare #Medicaid #TrumpDidThis #RepublicansDidThis #GOPKakistocracy #NoRepublicansEverAgain #USPol
Georgia’s Medicaid Work Requirement Program Spent Twice as Much on Administrative Costs as on Health Care, GAO Says
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Republican lawmakers cite Georgia’s Pathways to Coverage as a national model for federal Medicaid work requirements that are set to take effect in 2027. A new report shows the program has spent at least $54 million on administrative costs alone.
https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-pathways-medicaid-work-requirement-gao-report?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol
"A federal watchdog reported Thursday that Georgia’s program requiring able-bodied adults to document low-paying work to get Medicaid has spent much more on administrative costs than on providing health care...The GAO analysis shows that from fiscal year 2021 through the second quarter of 2025, Georgia reported $54.2 million in administrative spending and $26.2 million on health care."
#healthcare #medicaid #WorkRequirements #poverty #waste #fraud #abuse #georgia #USpol
"On the road to authoritarianism, [what Texas Republicans are doing] is a whole factory of red flags.
It lays bare the political power grab driving the Trump administration’s expansion of the police power. Although administration officials claim to be combating crime, they are setting up a one-state political system that will answer only to MAGA."
~ Heather Cox Richardson
#Trump#WashingtonDC #fascism #military#Texas #redistricting #gerrymandering
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"The D.C. occupation is a totalitarian threat indicative of Trump’s wider ambition to militarize American cities and a distraction from Trump’s colossal failures (e.g., inflation, Ukraine, cutting healthcare to pay for billionaires’ tax cuts, the Jeffrey Epstein files coverup)."
~ Jennifer Rubin
#Trump#WashingtonDC #fascism #military#Epstein #Putin #economy#BigBeautifulBill#Medicare#Medicaid
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"Today Trump is fully unbridled. Yet, for the first time, finds himself unable to convince majorities that he’s got a magic economic touch. As the situation deteriorates, he’ll have to either reverse course—changing pretty much everything about the way he’s governing—or else go to even greater lengths to control information and manipulate the public."
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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"For most of his years in office, Trump has benefitted from unearned public trust in his stewardship of the economy. It even kept him afloat in 2020, as he managed to persuade most Americans that the pandemic-induced recession was an act of god, rather than a crisis he exacerbated through deceit and incompetence."
~ Brian Beutler
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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"And think of how many times he promised not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, then bullied Republican members of Congress into passing a budget that takes $1 trillion from Medicaid, threatening to deny millions of Americans access to health care and force rural hospitals to close. Meanwhile, cuts to nutrition programs threaten rural grocery stores."
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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"Trump campaigned as if he had a foolproof plan to reduce grocery prices on day one, but in fact, grocery prices are up 3 percent year-over-year and reached record highs in 2025. In an example of classic Trump gaslighting, he’s telling people the bald-faced lie that prices are 'WAY DOWN.'"
~ Svante Myrick
#Trump #inflation #groceries #economy #tariffs#TaxCuts#EconomicElites#Medicare#Medicaid#BigBeautifulBill
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https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/5432719-trump-broken-promises-corruption/
I remember when this happened.
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There's a clip of Biden's final state of the union address, where he mentioned "there are republicans who want to cut Medicare and Medicaid"
Republicans booed, MTG stood up and yelled 'liar', Sen Mike Lee stood up shaking his head 'no'.
Every single one of them voted to cut Medicare and Medicaid.
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#alttext #alt4you#USpol#Biden #medicare #medicaid#StateOfTheUnion#MTG
And the shit hits the fan, after the midterms ... so make use of this plain language summary to inform the public with op ed pieces:
Remember when RFK Jr said he wanted to make lists of autistic people?
Disabled advocates warned that was just the beginning. That the violation of medical privacy would be used for nefarious purposes.
Today the regime announced it’s giving all personally identifiable information of Medicaid enrolees to ICE.
That’s right, ICE bullies will now have access to almost 80 million people’s personal info. This is an atrocious violation of privacy that will no doubt be used to target other groups as well.
It won’t stop with immigrants. It won’t stop with autistic people.
Fascists never stop and we must all fight back.
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