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My kiddo is one of them. She’s special needs and has had it since she was born.
Is she no longer eligible? Did you start making "too much money" post-pandemic for the program or was it some administrative nonsense?
Yeah too much money, we were on a state waiver program which basically got us Medicaid, but we were going to get kicked off but COVID started and we qualified for Medicaid but now we’re finally getting kicked off
I can't imagine how expensive it must be to care for a loved one with special needs. I hope you actually are making enough to do so comfortably.
This is clearly the best system of government and economic system ever created and there is no reason anyone would want to burn it to the ground.
Best health care in the world too, so I'm told.
it unironically is.
it's not my fault you don't elect social democratic politicians
A system that can get into this state is objectively worse than one that prevents this and doesn’t rely on stupid humans making the right decision
Yeah there's suffering but for a small, brief moment we created immense value for our shareholders.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Based on enrollment numbers at the start of the year, that means roughly 1 in 10 people covered by Medicaid have lost their health insurance in a matter of months.
After the US saw its uninsured rate hit historic lows during the pandemic, millions of the most vulnerable Americans are now falling off the rolls — with no assurance they will be able to find another form of coverage.
Even if you had a change in income or life circumstances that in normal times would have led to you leaving the program, you were allowed to stay as long as that emergency policy was in place.
But that provision expired earlier this year, part of the government standing down from its pandemic footing, and states were tasked with double-checking the eligibility of every person who was on their Medicaid rolls — a process referred to as unwinding.
The fear is that many people would end up losing coverage not because they were actually no longer eligible for Medicaid but because they got caught in some kind of bureaucratic snag.
In most states, more than half the people who have been kicked off Medicaid have lost coverage for an administrative reason — meaning somewhere along the way, there was an issue with their paperwork, not that they were no longer eligible.
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It’s a grievous, feral thing. The Medicaid ‘Unwinding’ is well-followed by the Death Panel podcast, here’s an episode from late August with deeper details.
These same states banned abortion, so just another action that proves they are not prolife, prochildren, or whatever word they want to brand their anti women agenda
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