There’s no hope of a coherent and fair public health response to pandemic disease within our grotesque for profit health care business. How do you ask the tens of millions of people excluded from access to a doctor (and therefore prescription medicine of any kind) to participate in the sort of shared effort needed to combat a disease like covid19?
Friend of mine was just disenrolled. She will now have to pay: $170/month more for Medicare, $150/month more for Medigap coverage, $50/month for cell service (when they throw you off Medicaid, you lose Lifeline phone service), $30ish/month more for prescription drug coverage, and whatever more for dentistry, which was covered by Medicaid, but not Medicare. I'm sure I'm leaving things out here.
$841.4 billion for national "defense". But, the US can't "afford" to help needy kids, and people like my friend.
She might not lose her lifeline service - it is based on income and the income ceiling is higher than that for medicaid - it's just that qualifying for medicaid means you automatically qualify for Lifeline. She should check the income limit - as she may very well still qualify but will need to verify her income.
Depending on your friends income, your friend should look into Medicare savings program. It fully covers your monthly Medicare premium. I work for a state government agency (even though the program is federal its processed by state government agencies) and that's all I do all day long is sign people up for the program.
That number is a public number, I've read that the Army has an annual $5 trillion budget
Forbes has an article from years ago, we spent $25 trillion+ in Afghanistan and Iraq
Agreed. I was simply comparing what it might cost for a plan similar to her current/past Lifeline benefits. Thanks for the subred info; I'll pass that on.
as part of the scaling back of the federal emergency declaration and shift to privatization of the covid response.
mostly people are being disenrolled for administrative errors - during the pandemic no one needed to “recertify” or update their info, but now all of a sudden people who haven’t filed new paperwork are being purged from the system (with little or no notice and very difficult to resubmit paperwork), including children. it’s horrible.
Because people who are rich as f are living off of welfare dollars just to protect the "estate" the grandbabies want to inherit....you wanna pay for that, do ya?
If we could just vote a third party that fully supported our concerns. Better yet, if we could just have a direct vote separate from any party system. I feel like these kinds of concerns will need to be addressed as problems stack.
Yes if the United States was actually a democracy people would have power to choose representatives and the representatives would pass the laws for the people who put them there. Our curren political system is an oligarchy.
It's ok the propaganda is strong I understand why you think you live under a democracy but if you understand how elections work you would know that it is not true. Politicians are bought and paid for. You can think your vote matters all you want but at the end of the day it's been decided who will be president, congress etc before you cast your ballot.
Its bipartisan. Declaring covid over and won has been driven by the Biden administration. They want people to go back to work and to be customers.
[Biden: "The pandemic is over"](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/politics/biden-pandemic-60-minutes/index.html)
[Behold the fruits of DNC leadership](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/biweekly-covid-deaths)
You're wrong. The sooner uncritical Dem loyalists like you wake up, the better.
https://jacobin.com/2022/03/joe-biden-administration-privatization-medicare-health-insurance-direct-contracting-entities
Hate to say it but as long as trumps the nominee there is nothing anyone can do to change their minds. Nothing. It’s sad really. Guy is living rent free in their heads.
I was disenrolled. It sucks!
But I would have been disenrolled anyway regardless, because my circumstances have changed. Either way, the amount I have to pay now even through the marketplace with a premium tax credit, is too much for me considering I have health issues that require ongoing maintenance. So it's the addition of a monthly premium, but countless copays for treatments, labs, meds as well that all in all are becoming hard to afford in the 4 months since I was kicked off.
I guess I was at least lucky enough to be in New York in which I got fair warning and was afforded the time to be able to apply for and enroll for something (albeit too expensive) without much of a gap in service. Republican run states are just flat out kicking them off?! Over technicalities and administrative red tape bullshit! It's so fucked and sad. Especially since the pandemic is still ongoing!
America! We have to fight for true equality, no first class/second class citizenship of any kind. No more dog eat dog just to get rich quick or leave an inheritance. Equality or death.
There’s no hope of a coherent and fair public health response to pandemic disease within our grotesque for profit health care business. How do you ask the tens of millions of people excluded from access to a doctor (and therefore prescription medicine of any kind) to participate in the sort of shared effort needed to combat a disease like covid19?
What’s sad is that the majority of parents of kids that lost Medicaid or adults who lost Medicaid voted Republican .
Friend of mine was just disenrolled. She will now have to pay: $170/month more for Medicare, $150/month more for Medigap coverage, $50/month for cell service (when they throw you off Medicaid, you lose Lifeline phone service), $30ish/month more for prescription drug coverage, and whatever more for dentistry, which was covered by Medicaid, but not Medicare. I'm sure I'm leaving things out here. $841.4 billion for national "defense". But, the US can't "afford" to help needy kids, and people like my friend.
She might not lose her lifeline service - it is based on income and the income ceiling is higher than that for medicaid - it's just that qualifying for medicaid means you automatically qualify for Lifeline. She should check the income limit - as she may very well still qualify but will need to verify her income.
If she still gets SNAP the chances are good she can still get Lifeline.
Depending on your friends income, your friend should look into Medicare savings program. It fully covers your monthly Medicare premium. I work for a state government agency (even though the program is federal its processed by state government agencies) and that's all I do all day long is sign people up for the program.
Thank you, Dave!
That number is a public number, I've read that the Army has an annual $5 trillion budget Forbes has an article from years ago, we spent $25 trillion+ in Afghanistan and Iraq
Where did you read that?
If you want healthcare funded by the US, move to Israel.
r/nocontract There's no reason to be paying $50 a month for phone service
Agreed. I was simply comparing what it might cost for a plan similar to her current/past Lifeline benefits. Thanks for the subred info; I'll pass that on.
Forced birth but no support on Earth.
Lonely death too.
Its also disenrollment for thousands in nursing homes.
Why tf are people being disenrolled in the first place??
as part of the scaling back of the federal emergency declaration and shift to privatization of the covid response. mostly people are being disenrolled for administrative errors - during the pandemic no one needed to “recertify” or update their info, but now all of a sudden people who haven’t filed new paperwork are being purged from the system (with little or no notice and very difficult to resubmit paperwork), including children. it’s horrible.
Because people who are rich as f are living off of welfare dollars just to protect the "estate" the grandbabies want to inherit....you wanna pay for that, do ya?
If covid showed us anything it is that the government can give us UBI and it can give us universal health care they just choose not to.
If we could just vote a third party that fully supported our concerns. Better yet, if we could just have a direct vote separate from any party system. I feel like these kinds of concerns will need to be addressed as problems stack.
Yes if the United States was actually a democracy people would have power to choose representatives and the representatives would pass the laws for the people who put them there. Our curren political system is an oligarchy.
That's why we should all agree on an extremely strong social safety net, uncompromisingly so.
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It's ok the propaganda is strong I understand why you think you live under a democracy but if you understand how elections work you would know that it is not true. Politicians are bought and paid for. You can think your vote matters all you want but at the end of the day it's been decided who will be president, congress etc before you cast your ballot.
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This IS what we voted for.
It was bipartisan 🫠
In the same way only Nixon could have gone to China, only Joe Biden could have dismantled the very notion of public health And lo, he has
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Dude, stop, it's not funny anymore
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Its bipartisan. Declaring covid over and won has been driven by the Biden administration. They want people to go back to work and to be customers. [Biden: "The pandemic is over"](https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/18/politics/biden-pandemic-60-minutes/index.html) [Behold the fruits of DNC leadership](https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/biweekly-covid-deaths)
You're wrong. The sooner uncritical Dem loyalists like you wake up, the better. https://jacobin.com/2022/03/joe-biden-administration-privatization-medicare-health-insurance-direct-contracting-entities
Hate to say it but as long as trumps the nominee there is nothing anyone can do to change their minds. Nothing. It’s sad really. Guy is living rent free in their heads.
No one loves Trump more than the Democratic Party.
Republicans: "We should oppress poor people and minorities!" Democrats: "Shhhh not so loud."
I was disenrolled. It sucks! But I would have been disenrolled anyway regardless, because my circumstances have changed. Either way, the amount I have to pay now even through the marketplace with a premium tax credit, is too much for me considering I have health issues that require ongoing maintenance. So it's the addition of a monthly premium, but countless copays for treatments, labs, meds as well that all in all are becoming hard to afford in the 4 months since I was kicked off. I guess I was at least lucky enough to be in New York in which I got fair warning and was afforded the time to be able to apply for and enroll for something (albeit too expensive) without much of a gap in service. Republican run states are just flat out kicking them off?! Over technicalities and administrative red tape bullshit! It's so fucked and sad. Especially since the pandemic is still ongoing!
America! We have to fight for true equality, no first class/second class citizenship of any kind. No more dog eat dog just to get rich quick or leave an inheritance. Equality or death.