Showing posts with label Medicaid. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Medicaid. Show all posts
Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Deane Waldman argues Medicaid cuts of 20 million new Biden enrollees who don't belong there would save lives by shortening wait times for care which have swelled to 132 days

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 Medicaid cuts could save thousands of lives   ... Reduced enrollment and cuts to nonclinical spending could shorten wait times, make care ...

Senate reconciliation bill gives chipmakers like TSMC more tax credits while cutting Medicaid

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  Chipmakers get larger tax credits in Trump’s latest ‘big beautiful bill’    ... Under the bill, passed by the Senate Tuesday, tax credits ...
Thursday, June 5, 2025

The Republican claim that the Big Beautiful Bill's cuts to Medicaid coverage will be offset by enrollments in employer-provided health insurance is a bad joke

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The enrollment rate in employer provided health insurance is down four points 2008-2021, from 54% to 48%. Why? Costs. The average premium f...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Ha ha ha, the budget framework House Republicans were so proud of passing in late February will have to be completely reworked in the Republican Senate, reconciliation bill won't move until the end of July

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... “Thune and others have said they don’t think it’s realistic we’ll move the finished product until the end of July,” a Republican senator...
Thursday, January 30, 2025

You'd think a 71-year old guy like RFK Jr would know something about Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D, but you would be wrong

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He is not qualified, on top of being a lunatic.  RFK Jr. stumbles over basics of Medicare, Medicaid during Senate confirmation hearings When...
Wednesday, April 17, 2024

The orchestrated lawfare against Donald Trump is designed to make you forget Biden's five tyrannical anti-democratic COVID-19 vaccination orders

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Not to mention to make you forget all Biden's other failures, starting with the fall of Kabul in August 2021. This is the same political...
Tuesday, March 26, 2024

As much as I sympathize with this guy's tale of Obamacare woe, his timeline is pure fantasy

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 The story is here : My insurance was $185/month with a $1,000 deductible. That was for a family of 5. So I voted for Obama-Biden in 2008 b...
Friday, March 22, 2024

Compromise spending bill passes US House 286-134 bringing fiscal year 2024 federal discretionary spending to $1.659 trillion through September

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 WASHINGTON — The House voted 286-134 on Friday to pass a sweeping $1.2 trillion government funding bill , sending it to the Senate just hou...
Monday, December 4, 2023

83 million still on Medicaid

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 Down from 94 million but up from 65 million before the pandemic. Story .
Tuesday, May 2, 2023

As usual the media and the Democrats, but I repeat myself, are portraying the House Republican bill which lifts the debt ceiling by $1.5 trillion as a bill with "big spending cuts"

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This is how NPR, who else?, frames the issue from the beginning: The House of Representatives has narrowly approved a Republican bill to ra...
Sunday, October 24, 2021

Meanwhile The Grauniad can't decide whether record STDs constitute a crisis which is serious or waning

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While neglected, the STI crisis presents a serious public health problem. ... But Harvey warns that a coordinated effort by national health...
Monday, February 10, 2020

Spending in 2020 on Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid to hit $2.19 trillion

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[S]pending on the “big three”—Social Security ($1.1 trillion), Medicare ($679 billion) and Medicaid ($418 billon)—will be approximately $2...
Thursday, September 12, 2019

Atlantic article totally soft-peddles how Obamacare's architects made millions vulnerable to estate recovery under Medicaid

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The only reason Obamacare can be called successful reasonably is that it threw millions onto Medicaid, except that what is spent on you i...
Monday, July 29, 2019

Obama stole neo-liberal healthcare mandate from Hillary, who stole it from "conservative" Heritage Foundation

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There is no difference between forcing you to buy health insurance and taking your money to pay for Medicaid and Medicare. Everyone i...
Saturday, October 20, 2018

Police find many more infant bodies in another Detroit funeral home as scandal expands

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This story is the macabre bookend to the grisly Kermit Gosnell infanticide case in Philly. 63 remains of fetuses removed from Perry Fu...
Saturday, September 1, 2018

Tucker Carlson says there's nothing free about this market, falls short of calling it an expression of global fascism

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But who knows, maybe his forthcoming book connects the dots between the multinational corporations and their revolving door governments, a...
Wednesday, June 13, 2018

47% of legal aliens in US receive at least one form of public welfare, compared with 32% of the native born

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Mostly in the form of Medicaid. The story is here .
Monday, February 26, 2018

Peter Morici: Republican opposition to regulating prices will bring Medicaid-like single payer to USA

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Here .
Saturday, September 23, 2017

Jack Lew, who presided over an 87% increase in the national debt as Treasury Secretary, is suddenly worried about the debt implications of tax reform

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From the election of Obama in 2008 until the election of Trump in 2016, $9.2 trillion were added to the total public debt. We've gone ...
Friday, August 25, 2017

Chris Jacobs for The Federalist favors the status quo on Medicaid in exchange for Obamacare repeal

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It's uncanny how similar Chris Jacobs' overarching point is to the one we expressed here in June when we said that the status quo...