"#Oregon is shipping air conditioners, air purifiers and power banks to some of its most vulnerable residents, a first-in-the-nation experiment to use #Medicaid money to prevent the potentially deadly health effects of extreme heat, wildfire smoke and other #climate-related disasters.
If Oregon can help enrollees avoid a costly trip to the doctor or the ER after #ExtremeWeather, other state Medicaid programs may ask the federal government if they can adopt the benefit."
“Name a force or impulse that threatens the stability of the American political system – distrust in the fairness of elections, conspiracy theorizing, the embrace of authoritarianism – and it is always more prevalent among rural Whites than among those living elsewhere."
~ Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman, White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy (New York: Random House, 2024), p. 5
“Rejecting the ACA's Medicaid provision offers yet another example of rural White conservatives voting against their own material interests. Rural Whites, after all, are uninsured at higher rates than their urban White counterparts. ...
Rural opposition to Obamacare and Medicaid expansion was the third and final act of a self-destructive political-electoral drama."
"First, rural Whites voted for national and state politicians who sided with the corporate interests that decimated their industries and healthcare infrastructure. Next, they rewarded those same politicians for opposing life-saving and life-changing healthcare reforms. In the final and fatal act, many got sick, and some even died from lack of care or coverage.”
Dollar Tree and its subsidiary Family Dollar are closing 1,000 stores.
According to Dollar Tree CEO Rick Dreiling, who makes 951 times the $14,702 median pay of his employees, “Persistent inflation and reduced government benefits continue to pressure the lower-income consumers that comprise a sizable portion of Family Dollar’s customer base."
Corporate profits account for about 53% of greedflation.
Dollar Tree employees are among the top recipients of government safety net programs, such as Medicaid and food stamps (SNAP) benefits.
Maybe, just maybe, if predatory corporate chain stores like Dollar Tree would pay their employees a living wage, they could generate profit the good old fashioned way, by selling retail goods to customers that need or want them. Just a thought.
@breadandcircuses it was really shocking to me to find out that Florida doesn’t get the same federal benefits that people in other states get. Like when we had the extra pandemic snap benefits, people in Florida didn’t get that. People in FL don’t get real medicaid. As a disabled person living in Florida before I qualified for Medicare, they gave me medically vulnerable Medicaid, which means it only kicked in after I paid $1000 out of pocket per month. Yep, I had a $1000 a month #deductible with #Florida#Medicaid. At the time my #disability payment was only a couple hundred dollars more than that, so I didn’t have $1000 after I paid rent. So basically I didn’t have insurance unless I ended up in the hospital with a huge bill. So it makes sense there would be more people living in poverty in places like that.
Under Ken Paxton, Texas’ Elite Civil #Medicaid Fraud Unit Is Falling Apart
After the chief of the attorney general’s Civil Medicaid Fraud Division was forced out last year, two-thirds of attorneys have quit the unit, leaving it at its smallest size since Paxton took office.
#Broke & in the USA? You've got until this Feb 7th to enroll in the Affordable Connectivity Program, which knocks 30$/month off of you #internet bill, and offers a 1x tech hardware purchase benefit.
There's a variety of ways you can qualify besides having HH income <200% of the Federal #Poverty Guidelines, including receiving