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Today in the Bronx, we joined unions representing thousands of healthcare workers, patient advocates, partners, and New Yorkers at risk of losing their Essential Plan coverage to call on the New York State legislature to TAX THE RICH and fund healthcare.

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Governor Hochul, do you care about home care workers, older adults, and people with disabilities? You are defending the wealth of the ultra-rich over our very lives.

#TaxTheRich to defend 100,000s of New Yorkers from Trump’s Medicaid cuts!

Thank you, @lydiagreenbk.bsky.social !

This Passover, join me in a week of action towards collective liberation.

Today, I proudly signed NY Caring Majority's petition to demand that Governor Hochul delivers a Care Not Corruption agenda for ALL New Yorkers.

Join Team Lydia in signing today: www.nycaringmajority.org/petition-hoc...

CALL YOUR LEGISLATORS NOW! With caring majority logo next to it. Call script: Hi, my name is _____. Happy Easter or Passover if you celebrate! I’m a constituent and [share relationship to CDPAP, if any]. I’m calling to ask the Senator/Assemblymember to restore choice to the CDPAP program and to support the Home Care Transparency Act S9142 (Comrie)/A10537 (Gonzalez-Rojas). Today is the one year anniversary of PPL taking over CDPAP. We have been plagued by one issue after another—lost pay, lost care, lost jobs, lost services and lost lives. Meanwhile, there has been almost no public oversight of this contract. The Home Care Transparency Act would create common sense reporting requirements so that the public and state legislators know how PPL is spending $11 billion tax payer dollars meant for care.  Will the Senator/Assemblymember sign on as a co-sponsor to the Home Care Transparency Act? Will they speak directly with leadership on the need to pass the bill this session?” Then there’s a link to look up your legislators. URL: policy.com/find-your-legislator

🌊🐪🔥 PLEASE TAKE ACTION to help bring 100,000s of New Yorkers out of PPL hell. Call script below 🌊🔥🐪

Find your state legislators at: policy.com/find-your-legislator

“New York’s Caring Majority Deserves Better. Next year, quality home care and thriving livelihoods for ALL people with disabilities, older adults, home care workers, and family caregivers <3” there is a beautiful menagerie of 2 dozen Caring Majority members, home care consumers and workers with a range of ages, life experiences, physical abilities, races, etc.

New York’s Caring Majority Deserves Better.

Next year, quality home care and thriving livelihoods for ALL people with disabilities, older adults, home care workers, and family caregivers ❤️

PPL Plague #7: Data breaches. A NY Post screenshot: “Worker at Hochul’s hand-picked homecare payment firm allegedly siphons off cash meant for participants.” With a photo of Hochul and Maria Perrin PPL Plague #8: Bureaucratic Hoops and Impossible Deadlines. Two latina women holding signs that say “Gov Hochul, Delay April 1 DEADline! Danger. CDPAP deadline.” Underneath a screenshot of a media advisory for a press conference on September 17. New Survey: Most CDPAP workers struggling to meet health exam requirements as deadline looms. Workers to rally demanding delay of October 1 deadline; tens of thousands on track to lose jobs.”

PPL Plague #8: Bureaucratic Hoops and Impossible Deadlines. Two latina women holding signs that say “Gov Hochul, Delay April 1 DEADline! Danger. CDPAP deadline.” Underneath a screenshot of a media advisory for a press conference on September 17. New Survey: Most CDPAP workers struggling to meet health exam requirements as deadline looms. Workers to rally demanding delay of October 1 deadline; tens of thousands on track to lose jobs.”

Plague #9: HOCHUL ADMINISTRATION GASLIGHTING!!! Below a screenshot from that shitty DOH Commissioner McDonald PSA video. The Commissioner, a white older man wearing a suit,  is clasping his hands and looking smug. The caption says, “There are businesses pushing a misinformation campaign.”

PPL Plague #10. Loss of a Trusted Caregiver (The CDPAP Exodus). This slide is more simple, with just a skull and crossbones. There’s text below that says, “The Department of Health denies there’s been an exodus from CDPAP. But by their own numbers, 150,000 workers and 90,000 consumers have fled the program due to PPL's payment failures, most switching to more expensive traditional home care.”

Part 3: “A Year of Loss & Destruction and the Ten PPL Plagues.”

PPL Plague # 3 Scam Health Insurance. Screenshot from New York Focus. Title: “Fraudster-Linked Company Set to Begin Massive Insurance Contract for Home Health Workers.” Subtitle: “The company used to help employers avoid paying for workers’ benefits. Now it’s slated to administer health insurance for tens of thousands of low-wage workers.” There’s a photo of someone holding a large printout of another article saying, “New York’s Health Companies Could Pocket Millions Meant for Low Wage Care Aides.” On the bottom of the slide, there is text in parenthesis: “Organizing works! PPL will now offer new health insurance. Will it be any better??”

PPL Plague #4 Jarring Number of Leadership Changes. There is a giant red flag over two article screenshots. The first from Spectrum State of Politics. “Amid rocky CDPAP transition, Public Partnerships LLC president to step down.” Underneath from wskg.org (http://wskg.org/), CDPAP home care agency PPL faces major c-suite shakeup” with a photo of ex-PPL president, Maria Perrin.

PPL Plague #4 Jarring Number of Leadership Changes. There is a giant red flag over two article screenshots. The first from Spectrum State of Politics. “Amid rocky CDPAP transition, Public Partnerships LLC president to step down.” Underneath from wskg.org (http://wskg.org/), CDPAP home care agency PPL faces major c-suite shakeup” with a photo of ex-PPL president, Maria Perrin. PPL plague #5: Glitchy, Inaccessible Technology. A smattering of error messages that workers and consumers see on PPL’s web and timekeeping platforms.

PPL Plague #6: Poor Customer Service & Language Access. There’s a tweet that says, “Former PPL worker whistleblowers come out and confirm what consumers & PAs have already known. “PPL does not know how to handle something of this magnitude,” said one. “We had to teach ourselves,” said another.” the headline of the attached CBS6 article is “Not enough training”: Former PPL workers say poor training plagued CDPAP payroll shift.

Part 2: “A Year of Loss & Destruction and the Ten PPL Plagues.”

This entire slideshow has a Passover ten plagues border, with blood droplets, frogs, gnats, locusts, boils, hail, a skull signifying death, dark ghostly figures. This title slide says The Ten Plagues of PPL in red drippy letters. There’s a long scroll with black and red lettering. It says “A year of loss & Destruction” #SaveCDPAP. Lost self-determination, lost independence, lost self-direction, lost livelihoods, lost autonomy, lost services, lost stability, lost time, lost jobs, lost care, lost pay, lost lives. Fight for our lives. We need oversight NOW!.” In front of that, there’s a DIY made wrecking ball on the floor that says PPL on it. Behind that, 7 protestors holding signs that say, “Home Care not profits,” “Stop the home care cover up,” “Where has $11B for CDPAP gone?” “Care Not Corruption.” Most use wheelchairs, a range of ages, races, genders.

In drippy red letters, it says, “Exactly one year ago…” Underneath, a photo of Kathy Hochul holding her arms out and wearing a pharaoh hat. The text underneath says, “Pharoah Hochul decreed NY’s home care workers and recipients would live under the control of private equity-backed corporation, PPL.” In all caps bold: “CHAOS ENSUED FOR  NEW YORKERS…”

PPL Plague #1: Customer Service Hold Purgatory. There is a clipart silhouette of a customer service representative with the PPL logo on its face. There is a speech bubble that says, “Please hold! Forever!” Underneath in italics text says, “If you know you know…” Then, “And Mozart’s 13th Piano Sonata haunts your dreams…”

PPL Plague #2: Missed or Incorrect Paychecks. Screenshot of Documented Article: "Criticism Mounts Over CDPAP Overhaul as Immigrant Workers Go Unpaid”. There are two pie charts. The title of the first is “70% of CDPAP Workers Didn’t Get Paid On Pay Day.” Subtitle: “Were you or your staffed paid by PPL on or around pay day (April 10)?” 70% Yes 30% No. The second chart title: “72% of workers who were paid received the wrong amount.” Subtitle: “If you were paid, was payment accurate to the hours worked? Yes 28% No 72%.

🧵 Today marks one year since Gov Hochul handed CDPAP to private equity.

As some of our members celebrate Passover at this juncture, we tell our PPL story, which has unraveled exactly as we had warned a year ago – worse.

Here's “A Year of Loss & Destruction and the Ten PPL Plagues.”

BREAKING: Governor Hochul's Budget Director ignores home care consumer and advocate, Julie Farrar, after selling her care out to private equity-backed corporation, PPL.

#SaveCDPAP

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A great example of CMR responding to injustice with creativity and joy, led here by Jon McFarlane. (And btw, this is one of several reasons I address Jon as ✨Mentor McFarlane.✨)

The only good thing to come from Gov Hochul's handover of CDPAP to private equity ⬇️🎶

🔥🔥 Enjoy this hot new (and informative) release written by Caring Majority leader, Dustin Jones. Performed by
Jon McFarlane and the Caring Majority Crew.

Here's "A PPL Story"

Meme of Kathy Hochul in a pantsuit sitting on a swinging wrecking bal. It’s hitting a pile of rubble with crying emojis on it with an arrow pointing to it saying NY CDPAP

Kathy came in like a wrecking ball. Yeah, she wrecked CDPAP 😔🎶

Love 🫶

Commentary: New York's home care transition was a mess. Here's a chance for accountability. Legislation would require monthly reporting from the firm managing the state's home care and would launch an independent audit of the CDPAP transition.

BREAKING: Home Care Transparency Act co-sponsors Senator Comrie & @votejgr.bsky.social author op-ed on CDPAP crisis

“Transparency is not an obstacle to good governance; it’s the foundation...State leaders must provide more transparency and oversight for CDPAP & Medicaid funds.”

A must-read ⬇️

@pnhpnymetro.bsky.social @jfrejnyc.bsky.social @citizenactionny.org @snahpnational.bsky.social @vincentcinque.bsky.social and more!

‼️Caring Majority leader & family caregiver, Jon, gives a moving speech on the state of home & health care in NY — and what it all means to him, his 93 y/o father, and 100,000s of New Yorkers.

Let's #PassNYHealth the Home Care Savings & Reinvestment Act, and the Primary Care Investment Act!

Enough is enough! ~230,000 home care workers and recipients have been forced out of CDPAP since Governor Hochul handed it over to private equity-backed corporation, PPL. Why is there zero oversight over PPL’s $11 billion contract?

Sign the Care Not Corruption petition: bit.ly/CareNotCorruptionNY

CDPAP Exodus Speak-Out! Thousands of New Yorkers were forced to leave the Consumer-Directed Personal Assistance Program (CDPAP) after New York State handed the program to a private equity-backed monopoly. Join us to hear t...

actionnetwork.org/events/cdpap...

We are done being gaslit! Join us to shed light on the true stories that prove the CDPAP exodus is real, has harmed New Yorkers and warrants true accountability measures in this year's budget!

RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/cdpap...

Let's get the Home Care Savings & Reinvestment Act passed – it's a cornerstone of our #CareNotCorruption platform!

New York must eliminate private insurance middlemen from home care and reinvest savings directly into home care wages and care. www.rochesterfirst.com/new-york-sta...

Statement on New York’s One House Budget Proposal We are deeply disturbed that neither the Senator nor Assembly included basic transparency requirements for New York's $11 billion contract with PPL. Handing private equity control over healthcare is questionable enough; doing so with zero oversight or accountability is reckless. At least 240,000 home care workers and consumers have fled CDPAP since PPL’s takeover. The private equity-backed company has been accused of ‘egregious fiscal and operational failures’ in six other states where they previously operated. Basic public reporting requirements are not just reasonable, they’re necessary for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who rely on CDPAP. We strongly urge NYS leadership to include these transparency measures in the final state budget.

Call State Legislative Leadership for the Home Care Transparency Act! Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins: (518) 455-2585 Assembly Speaker Heastie: (518) 455-3791 Hi, my name is ___. I’m a New Yorker and [share relationship to CDPAP, if any]. I am calling to express my deep disappointment not to see the Home Care Transparency Act in the One House budget proposal. At least 240,000 home care workers and consumers have fled CDPAP since PPL’s takeover, and PPL has been accused of ‘egregious fiscal and operational failures’ in six other states. Basic public reporting requirements are not just reasonable, they’re necessary for the hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who rely on CDPAP. Especially as we face federal cuts to Medicaid, New Yorkers are counting on you to ensure we are spending our taxpayer dollars on care, not private equity profit. I strongly urge [NAME OF LEGISLATOR] to include these transparency measures (S9142/A10537) in the final state budget.

Statement and ACTION on legislature's egregious omission from state budget (CALL LEADERSHIP NOW TO PASS THE HOME CARE TRANSPARENCY ACT!)

#SaveCDPAP #CareNotCorruption

From this week's presser at @cidnyinc.bsky.social: "It's really important for us to recognize that there are people who may not have workers. That means that they may not get out of bed, it means that they may not get dressed, it means that they may not have a shower, take their medications."(Fox5)

📢 CDPAP is collapsing under private equity control! Michael Kinnucan from Fiscal Policy Institute breaks it down.

Denying home care to people with disabilities & older adults is NOT “savings." We need transparency for PPL’s $11B contract!

Did the transition to PPL force you out of CDPAP? Add your name! Since PPL took over CDPAP, as many as 150,000 Personal Assistants and 90,000 consumers have left the program. Caring Majority is collecting the names and stories of consumers, workers and family careg...

Have you—or someone you know—been forced out of CDPAP due to the PPL transition?

DOH has gaslit NYers and denied there’s been an exodus from CDPAP despite as many as 150k workers & 90k consumers leaving the program.

Share your story here or call our hotline at (518) 303-2521. Spread the word!

Did the transition to PPL force you out of CDPAP? Add your name! Since PPL took over CDPAP, as many as 150,000 Personal Assistants and 90,000 consumers have left the program. Caring Majority is collecting the names and stories of consumers, workers and family careg...

Have you—or someone you know—been forced out of CDPAP due to the PPL transition?

DOH has gaslit NYers and denied there’s been an exodus from CDPAP despite as many as 150k workers & 90k consumers leaving the program.

Share your story here or call our hotline at (518) 303-2521. Spread the word!