Summary
Medicaid payment portals across all 50 states are down following Trump’s freeze on federal funding, sparking fears of disrupted healthcare for 79 million Americans, including children and low-income families.
Senator Ron Wyden called the freeze a “blatant attempt” to strip healthcare access, warning of deadly consequences.
The Trump administration claims payments to providers are ongoing but has not explained the outages.
Critics, including healthcare experts, fear significant harm as broader funding freezes impact key programs like Head Start and research grants overseen by HHS.
People voted for this. Knowingly voted for this.
Honestly? This might be the most malicious-compliance successful way I can see to deal with some of this Trump stuff.
Not all of it. Some needs to be actively resisted at every inch of the way. But you want to shut down funding for everyone’s health care? Okay, sounds good. Done, boss. What else?
The long-term impact isn’t nothing, by any means, but it’s pretty minimal compared to a lot of things he wants to do. But the optics and level of care it will cause the ordinary American person to invest in the issue is pretty maximal.
When is reset? It’s only been a week and it feels like a decade.
Servers reset on Tuesdays, hopefully we can get this latest patch rolled back, but thats unlikely…
Can you please escalate this ticket?
