tribes are courting the 30 pieces of silver, imagine that, imagine the open air prison of Gaza and the occupation of Palestine, and these days, up is down, out is inside!
Before the unwinding, more than 1 in 4 Americans — 93 million — were covered by Medicaid or CHIP, the Children’s Health Insurance Program
Can you imagine they, the motherfuckers in government, elsewhere, call this termination, kicked to the curb destruction of individuals and familes, the unwinding. I’m thinking about the frayed and torched safety nets. Forget about 600,000 Americans now floundering for health care coverage, with the flick of a mouse pad.
More than 600,000 Americans have lost Medicaid coverage since pandemic protections ended on April 1. The overwhelming majority of people who have lost coverage in most states were dropped because of technicalities, not because state officials determined they no longer meet Medicaid income limits. Four out of every five people dropped so far either never returned the paperwork or omitted required documents, according to a KFF Health News analysis of data from 11 states that provided details on recent cancellations. Now, lawmakers and advocates are expressing alarm over the volume of people losing coverage and, in some states, calling to pause the process. (source — Daily Montanan, that state of third home owners, the jet setters, 1,500 acre ranchitas, dirty gilded age mother fuckers)
Now now, look at this tough G-Man, a real foul pustule wanting to be J. Edgar, yep. You know, all the trillions in fraud and in the pockets of politicos and their thieves in corporations, and then all the graft, grift and gonorrhea machinations of the military everything is game industrial complex, not though G-Men tracking those chosen people down. “Federal officials are investigating those complaints and any other problems that emerge, said Dan Tsai, director of the Center for Medicaid & CHIP Services. “If we find that the rules are not being followed, we will take action.”
His agency has directed states to automatically reenroll residents using data from other government programs like unemployment and food assistance when possible. Anyone who can’t be approved through that process must act quickly.
“For the past three years, people have been told to ignore the mail around this, that the renewal was not going to lead to a termination.” Suddenly that mail matters, he said.
Federal law requires states to tell people why they’re losing Medicaid coverage and how to appeal the decision.
Miriam Harmatz, advocacy director and founder of the Florida Health Justice Project, said some cancellation notices in Florida are vague and could violate due process rules. Letters that she’s seen say “your Medicaid for this period is ending” rather than providing a specific reason for disenrollment, like having too high an income or incomplete paperwork.
Oh, sure, Toothless in Wisconsin, look at the series here and here and here — Read my past posts, man:
I left my buddy, KK, in River Falls, Wisconsin. Funny, I just told the guy I have a few retirement (sic, haha) funds (joke-joke) with, and he’s from Minnesota, and I told him I just came back from his neck of the woods, and he, slam dunk, said, “Dude, you came from Cheese Head Wisconsin, man, that place isn’t Minnesota.”
Ya know I talk about this ALL the time — the regional chauvanism, until Florida is the shit hole with all those snow birds and old New Yorkers and New Jersey double dippers clogging the entire joke of a state.
“My city is better than your city . . . my state is better than your state.”
Sure, my KK calls Wisconsin the Arkansas of the north, and, hmm, I suppose Montana and California are dream lands in paradiso?
In any case, services, man, for this social security recepient, vacant or never there.
He lost his wife less than a year ago. He has family, including daughters, estanging themselves from him. He has a house of hoarding situation. He almost amputated his index finger helping hitch up a trailer. He can’t drive because he fought the law and the law is sucking him dry.
So, he’s all alone, and can’t get to the grocery store, has appointments with a hand doctor, and the local “medical-county-aging” transportation is unreliable. He needs a new furnace, and there are no places that have assistance for aging in place folk like KK.
The lawn needs mowing, and there are no churches or other safety nets to assist. Meals on wheels, well, you have to go to the local private adult facility to get a meal for “free.”
Many state and local governments are underserving and failing to protect their lowest-income residents, which not only increases hardship for families but also harms states’ overall economic growth.
While not a comprehensive list of steps to bolster the safety net and reduce regional inequity, this report presents the following state and federal policy recommendations:
- Increase benefit levels, particularly in the form of direct cash assistance.
- Expand eligibility and outreach for safety net programs and ease onerous administrative burdens so that all individuals and families who need the aid receive it.
- Raise asset limits and earned income disregards to offset potential benefit cliffs.
- Properly invest in administrative improvements to expand capacity and avoid huge backlogs such as those seen at UI agencies during the pandemic.
- Streamline application and navigation processes so recipients applying for or enrolling in one safety net program are automatically enrolled in other programs they would be eligible for.
- Raise the minimum wage and eliminate subminimum wages.
- Support unionization efforts and worker bargaining power by passing laws such as the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act.
- Expand worker protections with laws such as paid family and medical leave, paid time off, fair scheduling practices, just cause employment, and the banning of forced arbitration and noncompete clauses.
- Implement or expand refundable state-level supplements to the EITC, CTC, and child and dependent care tax credit (CDCTC), and make the federal expansions to these programs under the American Rescue Plan permanent. (sources)
This is the out of sight, out of mind deal, but unfortunately we have boderline personality disorder and sociopathy and narcissism and perversion baked into the DNA of T. Blinken or Pete B., the lot of them on both sides of the manure pile.
So toothless in Wisconsin is toothless in Georgia, don’t you know: DCG students, residents, and faculty volunteered in Louisville, Georgia, for the Remote Area Medical (RAM) clinic for the underserved. The providers donated $122,000 worth of care to 208 patients. (source)
So, every nanosecond smeared in the media valorizing or publicizing all of them, the cult of celebrity, the dirty 100 million, name ‘em, any Jordan Peterson, Trump, every politician, every marketeer, every Jamie Dimon, every Soros and Bloomberg and Clinton and, well, name your stupid thief and murder incorporated muderer, and then the entire shit show of ZioAzovLensky and depleted uranium gifts of birth defects from dirtier UK and USA, you should be fucking sharpening your pitchforks.
The great hyper-power, Un-United Snake$ of Amnesia and Chaos and Penury and War. We have shit for brains running the country, state by state!
Remote Area Medical (RAM) is a major nonprofit provider of free pop-up clinics. Our mission is to prevent pain and alleviate suffering by providing free, quality healthcare to those in need. We do this by delivering free dental, vision and medical services to underserved and uninsured individuals. Since RAM was founded in 1985, over 196,000 volunteers – comprised of professional practitioners, as well as general support staff – have treated more than 900,000 individuals delivering more than $189.5 million worth of free healthcare services.
Toothless in Wisconsin, well, he hangs in there, and he sits with his dog Elldee, and he calls weekly, and we text, and we swap political stuff, and talk about next steps after he gets off paper, you know, that dirty probation shit — he’s almost 66 years old!
There is no more Stan Brock because he’s DOA, and RAM is a great organization, but not enough, not enough, not enough for the HUGE need and growing future needs of this shit hole USA. Patchwork USA, with D-minus infrastructure, closing addiction centers left and right, closing schools left and right and now left with threadbare and dysfunctional few and far between aging and disabilities services. Wisconsin, that gritty cheese smile state, full of toothless meth, toothless booze, man, and read my past shit on Substack while it’s free and while I can still publish before the brown shirts take my ass out back and .357 magnum my ass back to Commie Heaven.
Would You Leave Your Pet Monkey Alone with this Guy?
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Dog and Dude: A holy place in Merrill…
Ahh, one transition to another, today, but it makes sense to me, kind reader — Indian Country bought and sold once again by the Holocaust Industry, the lies of Jews and Israel, and nary a word about other dark skinned people who were forced off their homeland and now all the murdering of children, old people, youth and doctors and press, that Isra-Hell. Sickness on the Rez:
The Riverwinds told The Media Line that they are inspired by the story of the Jewish people and Israel—the story of an exiled people who returned and settled in their native homeland. “The story of the Jewish people, the indigenous people of Judea, brings us hope. For a tribal nation that has been able to return home, to their sacred sites, their culture, their tradition, their language,” said Riverwind.
Shame on them, shame shame shame: And they are stupid, unawake with eyes wide shut!
Listen to Cornel, not the great black hope, but his story, and his commitment to Palestine, these two dudes above should crawl away, man.
West, a longtime political activist who has been critical of Republicans and Democrats over the years, mentioned President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump – the likely Democratic and Republican 2024 presidential nominees – in his pitch to voters and positioned himself as an alternative candidate.
“We’re talking about empowering those who have been pushed to the margins because neither political party wants to tell the truth about Wall Street, about Ukraine, about the Pentagon, about big tech,” said West.
The campaign ad includes comments West made about Trump and Biden in previous interviews, in which he called Trump a “gangster” and “neo-fascist” and Biden a “milquetoast neo-liberal.”
Cornel West, known for evoking messages of “love” when talking about politics, positioned his presidential campaign as one rooted in caring for others.
“I care about the quality of your life,” said the former Harvard and Yale professor who identifies as a Democratic socialist. “I care about whether you have access to a job with a living wage, decent housing, women having control over their bodies, health care for all, the escalating destruction of the planet, the destruction of American democracy.”
While West’s campaign announcement may come as a surprise to some, he has long been critical of political leaders, particularly those residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Despite previously supporting then-Senator Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign, the activist withdrew his support of Obama and infamously criticized the 44th president of the United States during a 2011 interview. West chastised President Obama on his economic policies, calling him “a Black mascot of Wall Street oligarchs and a Black muppet of corporate plutocrats.”
That’s the reality we have here, all those on the attack against Cornel, as if the democrats have the votes as part of their DNA, born with votes, and no one else can come in and challenge them. Listen to him take on the stupidity of the spoiler shit thrown at Nader and Jill Stein, and now him.
This shit hole country, and West is in it — presidential bread and circus — to be of and with the poor.
The geographic distribution of inequality is complex
One important geographic point likely understates the findings here. Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia are all grouped as located within the South, following definitions from the U.S. Census Bureau. However, many political economy analyses would define these as non-Southern, mid-Atlantic states. Over the past half century or so, Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia—as well as Virginia in more recent years—have generally been more supportive of safety net programs and anti-poverty policies than the states that make up the remainder of the Southern region. This disparity can be observed over many of the charts in the interactive above. Similarly, there is significant variation within the Western region. For example, the Pacific Coast states—Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, and Washington—are much more hospitable to labor unions than others in the region. By grouping states into just four regions with the boundaries drawn the way they are, the disparities and regional inequities are muted and may be starker if the boundaries were adjusted accordingly.
Stan Brock might be Medicine Man, but Cornel West is Spirit Man, Blues Man, Philosopher for the Poor People, Man! Listen to him on Black Agenda Report.
Listen to West talk about the spineless RFK, Jr., posing with radical racist Jewish Rabbi and also denouncing Roger Waters. And I will do my out now as a tribute to writers, and a Substack guy from Berlin, to remind you the thought police, the Gestapo, the mind scarfers are here and now. C.J. Hopkins? This is beyond a travesty, not just what the black booted Krauts are doing to him, but the fact presstitutes and media mush are not covering this infamy: Find him at Substack, https://substack.com/@cjhopkins
They ain’t talking about this in Toothless in Wisconsin or Muder in Minnesota: Matt Taibbi,
It’s become axiomatic that the United States “lags far behind” Europe when it comes to hate speech law. Everyone from Joe Biden to would-be disinformation Czarina Nina Jankowicz to New York Times publisher A.G. Sulzberger have suggested the United States needs to move more in Europe’s direction, toward stricter rules and “illegal hate speech,” which “you will have soon also in the U.S.,” as European Commission Vice President for Values Vera Jourova put it at the Davos conference this year.
It makes sense. After all, who’s for hate speech? What possible downside can there be to disallowing expressions of racism, antisemitism, xenophobia, transphobia?
C.J. Hopkins can answer that. Following a similar case involving Roger Waters, the American playwright, Substack contributor, and editor of Consent Factory has been placed under investigation by a Berlin prosecutor for tweeting an image of his book, The Rise of the New Normal Reich. A scathing criticism of global pandemic policy, his cover features a white mask with a white swastika you have to squint to see:
Here are some other books legally on sale in Germany:
ARE YOU FUCKING PISSED OFF yet????@@@$$$%%%%###
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