Afaik, Medicare and social security are exempt. But they still do need to provide an audit on the federal program
Due to the confusion around authorization of payments for benefits, Medicare and SS are already being fucked with at the billing/collections level.
He hasn’t issued a full stop-payment on benefits, but the departments charged with pre-authorization are getting deliberately snarled to prevent new applications.
Medicade exists so that poor people don’t start demanding single-payer. This will backfire horribly if one’s goal is to maintain the stranglehold private insurance companies have on US healthcare.
Not if they don’t care and neither party offers a candidate willing to curtail corporate profits.
I don’t see a neoliberal or a fascist doing that. If there is another election that isn’t an “election.”
I fear we’ll have tanks rolling down the street before we have healthcare.
30% of veterans have disabilities.
Republicans: “Yeah… Fuck them. If they could just go and die that would be great.”
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…
Well, not to sound morbid or unsympathetic , but if the end really is the end, consider going out like a hero.
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.
He will negotiate how much more we should pay for sudafed and other over the counter medications.
