Since pandemic-era protections for health care coverage ended in March, more than 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid coverage.
For the first time in three years, many families and kids are caught up in the state’s re-enrollment process, a multi-step system of complex paperwork, deadlines and financial requirements.
Now, whistleblowers who say they work in the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) are alleging people have been denied coverage in error because of mismanagement within the agency.
My best friend has a young daughter with a genetic disability that will dramatically affect her for her entire life. She had a stroke a few months ago that scared the whole family, thinking there would be more complications to her condition. Furthermore, my friend works part-time and her husband works full-time so that she can be there for her daughter and help her grow up.
Texas Medicaid kicked her off during this round of purges, and my friend has spent countless hours trying to get her daughter reinstated (one person from TXMED finally said it was a data-entry error that caused the loss in coverage).
Fuck Republicans and everyone who voted for them. Society is about caring for the most vulnerable, and they’ve broken the social contact.
For aome reason i thought this is gonna be a feelgood story where they don’t live in a shithole
You must’ve missed the first part where they said they live in Texas.
As usual, the cruelty is the point.
Are Republicans pro-anything that isn’t cruelty? Seems that’s the primary product of their legislative agendas.
They’re pro-rich, pro-white, pro-christian, pro-capitalist, pro-oligarchy, pro-oligopoly, and pro-authoritarian.
They believe in a hierarchy based on class, race, genetics, health, sexual orientation, gender and gender expression, conformity, etc.
They believe this hierarchy must be strictly enforced and they act accordingly.
People with this world view don’t believe in equal treatment under the law or anything else. They vehemently oppose egalitarianism.
They want people lower on their made up hierarchy to have less, to suffer and to die.
Money
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They’re pro-power. They want to be the ones getting the kickback from policy decisions since whenever you change policy there are winners and losers - and the ones who bet on your side tend to win (because then they make you win in other ways. Big roles for your family, giant donations to keep you in office, business deals with your family so you get more income.)
They use:
- Christian Guilt (#1 - “Pro Life”, WORK your life away because it’s what you’re supposed to do/REPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR NOT LIVING A GOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE)
- Fear (#2 - anti-vax/conspiracy shit/racism/“guns protect people”/“strong militaries save lives”/Anti-LGBTQ/‘THEY’RE COMIN’ FOR YER GUNS) and
- Hatred (#3 - OTHERING: racism/we’re better than them/don’t work with the other side they’re the enemy!/The LGBTQ are gonna rape your kids!)
Fear and hatred are extremely powerful motivating forces and Christian guilt rolls into all of it. Presidents and most politicians can’t get elected without being publicly Christian, especially in conservative majority districts. I’m atheist myself, so forgive my improper categorization of denomination, but everybody knows what I mean.
The platform is not the same as the objective. The objective is to gain personal wealth and power and build a dynasty for your family. Helping your wealthier buddies out gets you a bigger share. There are certainly people who intend to get into politics without these opinions and attitudes but it’s far from the majority.
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So you don’t know what brainwashing is?
Thinking Republicans are for anything but the grievances of rich white folks is brainwashing.
This is what you voted (or more importantly DIDNT vote) for, Texas.
Way to own the libs, yo.
And Greg Abbott is a piss baby.
Somehow, deep down, all these Texans just know it’s the damn liberals fault for this /s
Certainly wasn’t what I voted for, but I’m in Austin so my voting blue doesn’t really count for much.
Governor and Senators are statewide elections. Your vote absolutely counts.
It’s not mismanagement if the explicit, if secretive, goal is to simply remove as many users of the service as possible, knowing most of them don’t easily have the means to fight back.
Very much by design, and deeply evil to boot.
And they’ll just vote the same people back in
Uvalde county overwhelmingly re elected Abbott and the GOP, even after their children were slaughtered and these people did nothing, they voted them back in. After a while you lose your sympathy for these people and realize they’re morons voting for their own destruction
Yep. Each and every time.
B-but state healthcare is literally commie-socialist-woke-liberalism!!11!1
Until they need it, then it’s poor people’s fault they don’t have it.
Why do you think they’re kicking people off of it?
Baby steps
Sorry, without health insurance that baby might not walk.
Between that and anti-vaxing…
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While the Nazi Party had existed since 1920, it did not initially set up its own social welfare department as several other German political parties had done. Nazi ideology was in principle unfavourable to the idea of social welfare. Writing in Mein Kampf about his time spent among the poor in Vienna, Hitler expressed indignation against social welfare for helping the degenerate and the feeble. The Nazis believed that the German race had to be strengthened through a process of natural selection, which required weeding out its weakest elements, so they condemned the goals of charity and philanthropy. They opposed the extensive welfare system of the Weimar Republic for being wasteful, bureaucratic, and helping the wrong people, since it distributed welfare benefits indiscriminately without regard for race and often assisted people that the Nazis considered inferior.
Funny that you were right even though you’re trolling, isn’t it? Almost like the GOP is a fascist organization.
Sad to see for the Texan people.
Honestly, as unfortunate as this is, I kinda do view this as a “fuck around/find out” dynamic. Constituents didn’t vote, or voted against their own interests, and this is the government it yielded. Maybe change your elected government if you don’t like that it’s actively hurting you.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/texass-voter-suppression-law-trial
Texas doesn’t want people to vote, especially people of color and people with disabilities.
Cutting a program that helps these people is a means of voter suppression.
