#medicade — Public Fediverse posts

First #NWS (New World #Screwworm ) #US human infection in years detected in #Maryland after traveler returns from #ElSalvador. Human infections have been rare in the US since it's eradication in 1966, but there was a relatively small Florida "zombie dear" outbreak caused by NWS in 2017. It's treatable with healthcare access, which #Trump has made a problem for the millions of Americans & immigrants his #Republican endorsed #BBB kicked off #Medicade.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/public-safety-and-emergencies/health-and-safety-alerts/flesh-eating-screwworm-case-detected-in-person-in-u-s-for-first-time-in-years/ar-AA1L8AKk

Even if you are on private insurance, the Republican budget will screw you over too, AOC explains
@aoc.bsky.social #Medicade
#NoMedicaidCuts

https://bsky.app/profile/americanprogressaction.org/post/3lp3b4lh73c2c

MASSIVE crowd outside of the House Energy & Commerce Committee

with a clear message for Republicans trying to steal their healthcare:

HANDS OFF MEDICAID!

#HandsOff #Medicade

https://bsky.app/profile/socialsecurityworks.org/post/3lp37uqn7u22m

Protesters just interrupted the House Energy Commerce Committee chanting
“No cuts to Medicaid!”

#Resist #USAProtests #USProtests #Indivisible #Medicade

https://bsky.app/profile/zengaian.bsky.social/post/3lp3hq3bruk24

#Medicare #Medicade #disabled

'The sweep of impending Medicare and Medicaid cuts in the US under Donald Trump could be about to put a severely chronically ill patient’s life at risk.

Living with multiple complex and under-recognised conditions including hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (hEDS), myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME), tethered cord syndrome, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS), and mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS), 34 year-old US resident Emily Johnson has been in palliative care since the age of 28.

Now, the Republicans’ plans under Trump to slash these programmes could mean losing access to the vital care currently keeping her conditions stable.

What’s more, not only will the cuts sever her financial bridge to her daily treatment, but it could stop her getting the surgeries she sorely needs. These are crucial treatments that could improve her long-standing health issues. These would help her regain a quality of life that enables her to not just survive, but live with fewer life-threatening, debilitating symptoms, and she hopes, even pursue her passions.

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-analysis/2025/04/07/trumps-medicare-cuts/

#TheFairnessProject helps get ballot measures passed, now there's #GOPTraitorsToDemocracy pushback https://www.npr.org/2023/02/24/1158797456/fairness-project-abortion-ballot-measures-gop-democrats-medicaid-minimum-wage. A left-leaning advocacy group #FairnessProject has created a playbook for using #BallotInitiatives to go around GOP-led state legislatures.
Since 2016, it has backed successful initiatives to raise the minimum wage and expand #Medicade in at least nine states run entirely or mostly by Republicans at the time of the vote