Encouraging people to risk bankruptcy and take on the system by themselves because the policy solutions on the table are opposed by people who have never gone without insurance in their lives. Remember the Ed Board pretending there isn't a problem? I do
www.wsj.com/opinion/obam...
Our health care system is already stressed and breaking in places
Unnecessary devastation on human lives should be enough reason to change course
But you cannot have this many more people needing care and expect the system to hold. Spillover consequences into other kinds of care/access will happen
Saying the quiet part out loud. He doesn’t give a damn about childcare or Medicare, but he’s got plenty to spend on war in Iran.
"Does the United States now have a federal immigration force that can kill Americans in front of the public yet operates beyond accountability’s reach?" columnist Jill Burcum writes.
There are a whole bunch of reasons to turn out for #nokings tomorrow but here are maybe the top two:
1) huge turnout is a signal to republicans edging away from Trump and puts steel in Dem spines.
2) least we can do to honor bravery of Minnesotans who turned the tide
Younger healthier people dropping coverage, others dropping from gold to bronze, 17% saying even though they bought coverage maybe can't swing the payments all year
These are all flashing red indicators that aren't obvious when you focus only on total enrollment
The data is now coming in. The enhanced tax credits are dead. People are losing health care. This was a choice, and they knew what would happen
As someone currently in a queue of 80,000 and growing, waiting for the dept to process a request bc this administration abruptly purged thousands of staff for no legitimate reason, I'm curious how the 2nd paragraph invokes Biden for "relevant" context about troubles at the dept. What a joke NYT
Outrageous.
Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible.
This decision must be overturned. Shame.
Good
It just keeps getting worse
Reminder: Trump is calling to ⬆️ the military budget by ~$550 bn, more than a 50% ⬆️
This is on the heels of the largest cuts to the social safety net in history AND a $150 bn military ⬆️ in OBBBA.
There isn’t enough money to help the hungry and the sick — but somehow there’s always enough for war.
Creating a problem they gleefully intend to solve by slashing future services, no doubt
They are still taking taxes from Minnesota last time I checked.
Also, why sort of regimes involve collective punishment, including punishing the innocent. This is not about fraud, it’s about control.
Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."
Such an important angle. Many people spend their lives doing physical work, work that can ravage their bodies by middle age
New SNAP reqs want to make people out to be lazy. In reality, many have already sacrificed more than those who voted for this ever will
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Blinding rage. Literal blinding rage.
This is how they treat children. It's all you need to know
MN has 6 million people. We are not a big state. The impact is felt at a greater magnitude
MN continues to deal with far more than ICE. Hundreds of millions, potentially billions, of federal dollars are threatened from numerous programs- child care, public health, health care. The story is the totality of their actions, hits coming from every angle, trying to bring a state to its knees
This and the article totally resonate for me. It's been so hard confronting this dissonance and I'm not sure I will ever get over this betrayal, nor should we
Roses are red
Carnations are pink
Medicaid work requirements
Don’t do what you think
#HealthPolicyValentines
This is one of mine from 2019, but certainly fits today because some people thought taking a second turn at something that didn’t work the first time was a good idea.
Roses are red,
Patients are blue,
to see their premiums spike,
now that the bill is due.
The Senate blocked action,
The President, too
to extend the tax credits
to help millions like you.
#HealthPolicyValentines
Premiums come first
Deductibles come later
We could move beyond all this
If we passed single payer
#healthpolicyvalentines
I thought it was love
My heart felt spring-loaded
Turns out our relationship
Was significantly upcoded
Thanks to Andrew Carleen @masshpc.bsky.social 💕
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Absolutely beautiful Steve Sack
Death by 1,000 cuts for the ACA. The full list of proposed changes is even more insidious this time around. It's weakening coverage in the shadows without needing to "repeal" anything
Roses are red
Vaccines are effective
More kids get to grow old
When we share this perspective
#healthpolicyvalentines
Really hope there was a huge shockwave through ICE today after their leadership was finally forced to investigate agents for shooting through the door of a home full of children and lying about it. They will not protect you from your crimes if it is not in their interest. Never too late to quit
They will not be happy until they crush all that is good in MN about how we care for each other and our communities. And everything put in motion the last few months is calibrated with particular cruelty toward the most vulnerable
The only way to have mass deportations is what it looks like here in MN. Huge win they claim to be leaving. But as the next city gets terrorized know they have learned from their mistakes. Nat'l media left after Bovino but the chaos and injustice didn't. We can't lose the thread on what's happening
