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Medicaid is healthcare coverage, not a monthly payout.
#Healthcare #Medicare #Medicaid
A wonky change in Trump’s BBB would hammer some of the very people Rs insist they are protecting.
It’s within #Medicaid -the program plays a critical role in helping vulnerable #Medicare beneficiaries cover their medical costs. And thanks to the R bill, ~1.3M ppl who qualify for the asst wouldn’t get the benefits.
Many would respond by not getting MED care they need, & their #health would deteriorate as a result. Thousands
could die prematurely every year.
#Bill #USPol https://www.thebulwark.com/p/yes-they-are-going-after-medicare-too-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-health-care-vulnerable
The Bulwark · Yes, They’re Going After Medicare Too
The #politicians putting the #military on the streets to intimidate #demonstrators are the same bureaucrats who are cutting people's access to #FEMA, #medicare, #socialsecurity, & #SNAP benefits.
It's not #immigrants or #trans people. It's them who are making our lives worse!
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An internal memo & emails obtained by AP show that #Medicaid officials unsuccessfully sought to block the #data transfer, citing #legal & #ethical concerns.
Nevertheless, 2 top advisers to *#Health* Secretary #RFKJr ordered the dataset handed over to #DHS, the emails show. Officials at the Centers for #Medicare & Medicaid Services were given just 54 minutes on Tues to comply with the directive.
#politics #ice #hls #privacy #immigration #alt #medicare #deportation
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump administration gives data of immigrant Medicaid enrollees to deportation officials, documents obtained by AP show.
I saw this interview with Never Trumper Sarah Longwell on TV this morning at the gym. I know it's maddening to hear from Trump voters who are starting to find out what they voted for, but they're getting it.
Spare a thought for Saint Sarah having to sit there in focus groups and listen to all this stuff without screaming. She's been doing it for years, I don't know how.
Leopards are out in force.
#Budget #medicaid #snap #medicare #maga #gop #trump
https://xcancel.com/DanaBashCNN/status/1933232469005726151#m
And who will work in the fields? Children?Folks who have just lost #FoodAssistance and #Medicare?#Protestors who piss off Trump?
#Trump’s Immigration #Crackdown Hits #CaliforniaFarms
#Farmworkers hid in fields on Tuesday as word spread that ICE agents were conducting raids in California’s breadbasket, an activist said.
By Bernard Mokam and Pooja Salhotra
June 11, 2025, 9:08 p.m. ET
Excerpt: " 'The #Trump administration is ramping up its immigration crackdown, with a focus on workplaces with undocumented #laborers, such as #farms, #restaurants and #construction sites. Estimates show more than eight million undocumented #immigrants work in the United States.
"Last Friday, federal immigration agents swept through the garment district of Los Angeles, setting off protests that have rattled sections of downtown L.A. and have spread to a number of cities across the country.
"For #farmworkers — about 42 percent of whom are undocumented, according to the Agriculture Department — the escalation in arrests has created widespread fear.
" 'Children are terrified,' Ms. Romero said. 'They don’t want to go to school because they don’t know if their parents will be home when they come back.'
"Local leaders have rebuked the escalation, which could bring hardship to one of California’s agricultural corridors. The #CentralValley — which grows #almonds, #grapes, #walnuts and #cherries, among other crops — produces a quarter of the nation’s food, worth an estimated $17 billion a year, according to federal data.
" 'These actions are completely unjustified and harmful,' said Mayor Luis McArthur of Oxnard. 'They create chaos in our city without contributing much to public safety. Furthermore these actions undermine the very principles of #DueProcess.'
"The raids this week represent the first organized immigration enforcement from the new Trump administration to hit California’s agricultural region, which covers about 40 percent of the state, Ms. Romero said. A handful of federal operations have been conducted in other rural communities in recent weeks. Last month, federal agents pulled over a bus in #AlbionN., and detained 14 immigrants who worked at a nearby farm. In April, three children and their mother were detained at an upstate New York dairy.
"Rural migrants are particularly vulnerable to immigration enforcement because they stand out in towns that are often racially homogenous, said Will Lambek of Migrant Justice, an advocacy organization for farmworkers in #Vermont, where eight dairy workers were detained in April.
"In California, Ms. Davalos said the agents could have made more arrests had the community been less prepared. Once a volunteer spotted officers in the area, an alert was sent through a network of support.
"Federal agents were denied entry to at least nine farms in the Central Coast, Ms. Davalos said. Some growers parked their vehicles in front of their gates. Employees also obscured their cars.
'We demonstrated the power of brave, nonviolent #resistance to #ICE’s tactics of #terror,' Ms. Davalos said, lamenting what she described as politically driven attempts to reach a deportation quota. 'At the end of the day, they’re seizing our family, friends, neighbors and co-workers.'
"If federal immigration enforcement activities continue, #FoodProduction will become increasingly difficult, and food prices could rise, warned Bryan Little, senior director of policy advocacy at the California Farm Bureau."
Read more:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/trump-ice-raids-california-farms.html
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NFWuO
The New York Times · Trump’s Immigration Crackdown Hits California Farms
#politics #trump #alt #fascism #totalatarism #immigration #economy #popularity #hegseth #rfk #bbb #medicare
Heather Cox Richardson 5/11/2025
Trump’s Policies, Appointees, Performance and Big Beautiful Betrayal All “remarkably unpopular”
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Tommy Douglas: The Father of Canadian Medicare 
Tommy Douglas, a former Premier of Saskatchewan, is widely regarded as the father of Medicare in Canada. He introduced universal, publicly funded healthcare in Saskatchewan in 1962, a model that was later adopted nationwide. Douglas's vision of accessible healthcare for Canadians has had a profound and lasting impact on Canadian society. 
#Canada #TommyDouglas #Medicare #Politics
That fraud mfer Dr Oz said (on criminal Fox tv) for the ppl worried about losing their #Medicare, that they need to get a job “.. and prove that they matter.”
To rich white supremacists, white lives don’t matter either.
Hope we’re all clear abt how the gop is trying to kill working ppl.
Mike Johnson: Republicans “Have a Plan” to Cut #SocialSecurity, #Medicare, and #Medicaid https://democrats.org/news/mike-johnson-republicans-have-a-plan-to-cut-social-security-medicare-and-medicaid/
Democrats · Mike Johnson: Republicans “Have a Plan” to Cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid - Democrats
“The most impactful nation-building projects are not things, but ideas – programs that focus on bettering the health of people, both physically and financially.
Case in point: #Medicare.
The underlying philosophy of #Canadianmedicare is that no one should be denied essential care because of an inability to pay.” https://med-mastodon.com/@picardonhealth/114659276632272655
Med-MastodonAndré Picard (@picardonhealth@med-mastodon.com)‘Nation-building’ projects should also reflect Canadian values. We can't just focus on pipelines when health care and other soft-power initiatives are already our strengths.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-nation-building-projects-should-also-reflect-canadian-values-including/
So y'all know that the #MassDeportations and the proposed #Medicare and #Medicaid "work requirements" are hand in glove, right? When all of the migrant workers are rounded up into deportation camps, who is going to be pressed in service in kitchens, hotel housekeeping, #FarmLabor, and slaughterhouses? All of those people who need #HealthCare, of course.
"Hey grandma, you want healthcare? You don't look too sick, get in there and milk them cows. Turn them beds.".
Democratic Senators Warren and Wyden demand that Maximus explain how the company would profit from #Trump's cuts to #Medicare and #Medicaid under Trump's massive funding bill https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/09/medicaid-maximus-inc-elizabeth-warren-ron-wyden
The Guardian · Senators call on company to reveal how it will profit from Trump Medicaid cuts
"At its core, the Republican 'big, beautiful bill' is more than just an extension of tax breaks approved during President Donald Trump’s first term at the White House.
The package is an attempt by Republicans to undo, little by little, the signature domestic achievements of the past two Democratic presidents."
AP News · Trump's big bill also seeks to undo the big bills of Biden and ObamaChiseling away at President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act. Rolling back the green energy tax breaks central to President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. At its core, the Republican “big, beautiful bill” is more than just an extension of tax breaks approved during President Donald Trump’s first term at the White House. The package is an attempt to undo, little by little, the signature domestic achievements of the past two Democratic presidents. House Speaker Mike Johnson says Republicans are going “to do what we said we were going to do.” But the bill's spending cuts pointed at the Democratic-led programs are causing the most political turmoil.