Well, I have cancer and medicaid so it’s been nice knowing you guys.
Washington Healthplan Finder seems unaffected but I don’t know if this means like internet government medicaid portals, and not the public facing ones.
The portals between the state medicaid offices and the federal offices have been severed, I haven’t seen public facing sites being impacted, yet.
States are having to choose to suspend payment to hospitals (who will subsequently suspend services) or absorb the costs themselves until the situation is resolved.
Washington is in a budget crunch somehow despite years of record tax income from marijuana sales, so I guess I know what they’re gonna do…
Honestly, even states that run a fat surplus couldn’t support medicaid for any reasonable time without the federal support… unless the alternative is that everyone stops paying into federal taxes and the money is redirected into the states for individual programs. But this is a costly and wasteful alternative that would result in a patchwork hell of varying degrees of care I’d like to not think about. I’m just sorry you and many others are caught in the middle of this ignorant shit.
They cant pay it because if they do, trump and his ilknwill use it as ammo to atate that the federal govt never needed to pay it. It would be a short term win with disasterous long term consequences.
Whats more likely to happen is that they scramble to fix that because too many of their voters rely on it.
Well, not to sound morbid or unsympathetic , but if the end really is the end, consider going out like a hero.
