medicaid
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Op-Ed: With Healthcare at Stake, Stacey Abrams Explains 'What the South Must Do'
When we vote, it may seem like we are voting for a candidate, but that is not entirely accurate. We are voting for the positions that the candidate supports and the types of policies they will enact based on those positions. This is true no matter where we live, and looking at this year’s election…
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During a Global Health Pandemic, It's More Important Than Ever to Protect Black Mothers
Despite its status as a “developed” nation, about 700 women will die each year from complications related to pregnancy or childbirth in the U.S.—more than any of its peers. Of that number, a disproportionately high number are black women—from 2007 to 2016, black mothers died at a rate of 3.2 times that of white mothers,…
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Andrew Cuomo Is Trash
In a crisis—and absent any real leadership from the president—people love an authoritative man with a PowerPoint. That explains, partially, the surge of popularity New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is experiencing. As the leader of the state that is currently the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis in the U.S., he exhibits the sort of governance…
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Trump Now Says He's Open to Cut Entitlements
Another day, another installment in the ongoing saga that is “y’alls President is a lying ass liar.” Our subject for tonight’s episode is entitlements. CNN reports that when the currently impeached President was asked by CNBC in Davos whether entitlements would ever be something on his plate he responded with “At some point they will…
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Trump Will Deny Visas to Immigrants Who Don’t Have Health Insurance—and Obamacare Won’t Count
Poor, uninsured immigrants will be denied visas to enter the United States starting next month, the White House announced Friday. Donald Trump signed a proclamation declaring that starting Nov. 3, if an immigrant cannot prove they have their own health insurance or the money to purchase it, they will not be allowed to enter the…
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Trump Administration’s New Rule Could Block Visas, Green Cards for Legal Immigrants Who Need Benefits Like Food Stamps
Because the Trump administration is made of people like Stephen Miller and those who think like him, on Monday the group of evil white men and complicit white women released a new regulation that would target legal immigrants for needing government benefits. According to CNN, the new rule would make it easier to “reject green…
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The Trump Administration Might Actually Help Curb HIV Transmission (Or Not)
If you were planning to play the lottery or bet on the Knicks, you might want to get to it. There’s a decent chance the Trump administration may on the verge of doing something entirely right. Days after Trump’s proclamation of a new initiative that would “eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within…
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President Signs Executive Order Mandating That Poor People Work or Lose ‘Welfare’
Without much fanfare (totally apropos, given what’s been happening in the world of the White House in the last 72 hours), President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday that will force recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Medicaid and low-income housing subsidies to find work or lose their assistance. Trump quietly signed the…
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Trump to the Poor: You Must Work for Your Medicaid, Even Though 60 Percent of You Already Do
In more of the president’s heartless-rich-white-man shtick (except it’s obvious that he’s really all of these things), the Trump administration on Thursday announced that it will allow state-run Medicaid programs to require “able-bodied” Medicaid recipients to work, an action already co-signed by 10 states. The new rules mandate that those who receive the health insurance…