"My daughter's life depends on Medicaid," says P.
P. and her family have legal immigration status, but she fears that the health insurance keeping her medically fragile daughter alive could also put her family at risk of being detained or deported by immigration authorities. #healthpolicy
"Her stepmother, Ashley Skjerva, told ABC News that Makayla was vaccinated against measles but, because she is immunocompromised, it left her at high risk for infection and serious complications."
Enough is enough.
We just learned that some Republicans in DC are now pushing for even MORE cuts to health care.
Endless money for war.
Endless money for corporate tax cuts.
No money for your health care.
NEW West Health-Gallup Poll: Americans are skipping meals and borrowing money to pay for medical expenses
“It is impacting people every day in their decisions,” Tim Lash, president of the West Health Policy Center, said. “It is getting worse.”
#healthpolicy #affordability
“.. 15 percent of individuals said they had borrowed money in the last year to pay for medical expenses, while another 11 percent said they had skipped a meal.”
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Nancy Pelosi always says -- show me your values, show me your budget.
Newsweek: Trump’s Iran War Costs Compared to ACA Health Care Subsidies
> @samsteindc.bsky.social
For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.
These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20
The Mighty Milkshake Ducks
I’m boycotting the State of the Union, but Becky Roberts will attend as my honorary guest. She’s one of 22 million Americans facing higher premiums after Trump and Republicans let ACA tax credits expire and cut Medicaid. I invited her so Trump must face the people hurt by his policies.
Never forget who Trump governs for.
Sen. Chris Murphy: This union is in crisis right now. Millions of Americans are losing their health care because the president has chosen corruption — padding the pockets of his billionaire friends instead of helping average Americans.
Sen. Ruben Gallego: Millions of Americans right now are without health care. The poorest people in our country are trying to figure out how to make ends meet and how to pay for that grocery bill — because Republicans needed an extra billion dollars for their billionaire friends.
A Trump health official turned industry analyst called Trump's drug deals "a win" for pharma and "a clearing event" — meaning the industry got off easy. Trump didn't fight Big Pharma. He caved.
Rep. Greg Casar: He's going to tell us that the state of the union is strong. Strong for who? Trump and his billionaire donors. The Epstein class certainly is going strong. Our union is not strong when millions of folks are seeing their health care premiums go 2x, 4x, 5x, 10x higher.
A "Golden Age" where your premiums doubled, tripled, even quadrupled. Where 750+ hospitals face closure. Where 15 million people are losing coverage. And where billionaires got $1.5 trillion richer. Golden for them. A disaster for you. #SOTU2026
Photo of Dorinda from Real Housewives of New York saying “not well, bitch!”
If you ask our union how she’s doing:
“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it
Yeah I work in health care advocacy so that’s the only reason I know. It didn’t get a ton of attention. 3 year clean extension of tax credits got bipartisan, majority support in the House and Senate but it needed 60 votes in the Senate to move forward. Republican leadership killed it.
They did get the vote in December. It failed in the Senate. www.wpr.org/news/as-us-s...
Meet my State of the Union guest, Jeremy Schumacher.
Without ACA tax credits, his health insurance costs jumped 288%.
An $11,000 increase.
Trump sold out the American people to give billionaires another tax break.
Gallego: "They're going and racially profiling people and rounding up Americans until they can prove their citizenship. That money came from kicking millions and millions of Americans off Medicaid. It was the same bill. They cut Medicaid to expand ICE."
My not-online partner and I walked past the Swarovski shop at the mall and he made a comment about it like what’s the deal with that store? I found myself telling the story of your Shrek figurine. He was so confused - why would they make that? Indeed. But he was delighted by the picture.
We already knew that TrumpRx is a scam, but a new report from the Joint Economic Committee found that families using the site could pay thousands of dollars more per year! Meanwhile, drug companies are raking in massive profits thanks to Trump and Republicans
Are the biathletes okay?!?! Because they have guns!
Every single person responsible for the horrors inflicted upon these children must be held accountable
I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them
If we don’t see a touchdown in the 3rd quarter, can Bad Bunny come back out for another song?
Do you like punts and field goals? Have I got the game for you!
Okay we made it to the Super Bowl. Can we stop with the football is just selling food commercials forever? Incredibly, they make two of our most charming actors completely insufferable.
