No Healthcare for Thousands of Florida Children
Per the above video; “Florida has removed 420,000 children from the rolls of both medicaid and chip, the children’s health insurance program. Chip insures children from families with modest income, but that make too much money to qualify for medicaid. Florida is also challenging a Federal law that went into effect at the beginning of this year, requiring states to provide children with 12 months of continuous medicaid or chip eligibility.
Thousands of Florida children appear to not have coverage in Medicaid unwinding
Florida is halfway through its Medicaid unwinding process, and thousands of children have lost coverage. The state doesn’t know how those kids are receiving care.
Thousands of Florida children appear to not have coverage in Medicaid unwinding
Per the above article; “Florida is halfway through its Medicaid unwinding process, and thousands of children have lost coverage. The state doesn’t know how those kids are receiving care.
About a quarter million Florida children were deemed ineligible for Medicaid with the state about halfway through its redetermination process, in which the Department of Children & Families is reevaluating eligibility for 5.5 million residents. So far, DCF has disenrolled around 260,000 children. The state plan was to have those qualifying children enter Florida’s kid health care plan, but only 25,000 have enrolled.
State data shows that in July over 2 million calls were received by DCF, and 42% were abandoned. The average wait time was 41 minutes before being pushed to another helpline.
Florida ranks 45th of all states for call center wait times and abandonment rates. The top states had two-minute average wait times
Monet Li is also concerned about Florida’s large procedural termination rate – or Medicaid terminations that occur when DCF does not hear back from recipients. As of September, 51% of Floridians were disenrolled for procedural reasons. The state does not keep track of reasons for a procedural termination”.
Column: In their war on children’s health, red states reject federal meal program for low-income families
Iowa and Nebraska reject U.S. money for a summer children’s food program even though the federal government is picking up the tab.
In their war on children’s health, red states reject federal meal program for low-income families
Per the above article: “Question: Is there anything more absurd than red state governors rejecting federal programs that directly benefit their constituents?
Easy answer: Yes. It’s the explanations they give to make their actions appear to be sober, responsible fiscal decisions.
The Republican governors of Iowa and Nebraska brought us the most recent examples of this phenomenon just before Christmas.
Here’s how Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds justified her decision to reject the federal subsidy for low-income Iowans: “Federal COVID-era cash benefit programs are not sustainable and don’t provide long-term solutions for the issues impacting children and families.” Nebraska Gov. Jim Pillen’s explanation was, “I don’t believe in welfare.”
It’s worth noting that the explanations by both Reynolds and Pillen are fundamentally incoherent. What does Reynolds even mean by calling the program “not sustainable”? It would be sustained as long as Congress continues to fund it, which is almost certain as long as Republicans don’t take control of both houses and kill it.
As for Pillen’s crack about “welfare,” he didn’t bother to explain what he believes is wrong with “welfare” as such; he just uttered the term knowing that it’s a dog whistle for conservative voters aimed at dehumanizing the program’s beneficiaries.
What makes these governors’ refusals so much more irresponsible is that the federal government is picking up 100% of the tab for the benefits; the states only have to agree to pay half the administrative costs. Their shares come to $2.2 million in Iowa and $300,000 in Nebraska, according to those states’ estimates.
In return, 240,000 children in Iowa would receive a total of $28.8 million in benefits over the three summer months, and 150,000 Nebraskans would receive a total of $18 million. Sounds like a massively profitable investment in child health in those states”.
The above video exposes how Republicans are hypocrites who engage in, and condone Socialism for the Rich in the form of corporate bails-outs, tax payer funded sports stadiums, farm subsidies (22 billion in 2019 when Trump was President), but harsh “pull yourself by up by your own bootstraps” Capitalism for everyone else.
Robert Reich connects the dots to expose Republicans War on the Poor and Working Families including their opposition to minimum wage, unemployment insurance, food stamps and more.
Republicans are constantly demonizing the poor by claiming their lazy and don’t work. Millions of people who are poor work full time in low paying jobs, such as those in the food service industry at places like McDonalds, Taco Bell, etc. Just because these jobs are low paying doesn’t mean they are not important. We couldn’t function as a society if no one was willing to work these jobs.
Republicans are demanding stricter work requirements in the debt ceiling fight, which also include GOP demands for cuts targeting the poor. “You’re taking people off of SNAP, off of food stamps, and Medicaid,” MSNBC’s Ali Velhi tells Joy Reid. “What kind of country is looking to have fewer people have enough.”
Fox Guest Compares Poor People To Dogs Who Are Only Obedient When They’re Hungry
A Fox News guest this past week may have accidentally let the cat out of the bag when he said that poor people have it too good by receiving extended unemployment benefits, then drew a parallel to military dogs who are only obedient to commands when they are hungry. This is what the Right wants for America – a country so starving and desperate that they will do anything their masters ask them to do.
House Republicans tried to pass H.R. 5003, misleadingly titled “Child Nutrition and Education Act of 2016”, a bill which would inevitably take free school lunches away from poor schools and children. The bill was introduced by Indiana Republican Todd Rokita and would have affected up to 50,000 students just in his home state alone.
Republicans voted to cut 39 Billion Dollars from the Food Stamp program, but have no problem giving tax breaks to the wealthy.
Republicans Believe No One is Entitled to Healthcare
Republicans Believe Healthcare is a privilege, not a Right, so if you can’t afford health insurance, your not entitled to treatment.
Health care is neither a right nor a privilege provided by the government according to House Speaker Paul Ryan.
In a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, the Wisconsin Congressman explained that he believes the government doesn’t owe it to anyone to pay for health care. Doing so enables the government to decide for Americans “where how and when we get health car,” he said.
A cancer survivor who says he’s alive because of Medicaid confronted Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price on the GOP’s opposition to the program. “Medicaid expansion saved my life and saved me from medical bankruptcy,” Brian Kline said during a CNN town hall event on Wednesday night.
