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WarOnPrivacy 18 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"
susiecambria 18 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.
yoyohello13 15 hours ago [-]
They will spend endless amounts of money to kill people, but can't spend a single cent to help people.
throwatdem12311 16 hours ago [-]
The cruelty is the point.
rekabis 16 hours ago [-]
For conservatives, the cruelty has always been the point. Bryshun.
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.