Also if you can’t pass a literacy test, maybe you’ll have a difficult time getting health benefits providing employment. Can they just call it the Racist Retraction of Medicaid?
Literacy is 100% irrelevant to whether someone needs health insurance. Illiteracy is never due to laziness, even the laziest student learns to read eventually. It is always due either to a disability or catastrophic failure of the education system.
I know that "literacy test" has a long and storied history in the USA, but that isn't exactly what they are proposing. Now what they are proposing is still quite bad, because they want to test people's knowledge of (presumably personal) finance and healthcare before allowing them to claim benefits. This is 100% a bad thing because our educational system doesn't teach that sort of thing (and it really should) and there is no provision for helping people learn it. It's just another way to deny people government assistance, and definitely designed to target the most needy. It is vile, no two ways about it, but it's a different sort of vile from the Jim Crow "literacy tests" used to deny brown people their right to vote.
Literacy is 100% irrelevant to whether someone needs health insurance. Illiteracy is never due to laziness, even the laziest student learns to read eventually. It is always due either to a disability or catastrophic failure of the education system.
Lazy people deserve healthcare too. The only acceptable criteria before providing healthcare are need and availability.
Even the laziest orange fascist horror clown deserve healthcare.
If you can't pass the literacy test then a class tutor or teacher should be provided, which means you're in school, which means you're compliant and get Medicare/Medicaid.
I'm down with providing opportunity for a better future. Somehow I don't think that's the goal here.
Even if all you cared about was your own skinny wallet, doing this fucking costs you more money!
BUT... it hurts poor people. So it's working as intended.
Given the choice between gaining a dollar, or spending a dollar to hurt a minority, for some of these assholes, there is no choice. It's the latter, every single time.
Of course, the fact that some of the same people cheering this on, will be the same people being hurt by it, well, that's going to be blamed on the Democrats.
News cycle so caught up in trying to decide if the president is racist or feeble that the Administration giving the green light to premiums for medicaid is getting no traction.
NPR had the Lt. Gov from Kansas (apparently a practicing MD) on this morning to talk through this. The interviewer tossed out a half dozen examples of people on Medicaid -- including those who care for others who can't work -- and he said, "of course, they would not have to work," for each one of them. Which, at that point, I'm not even sure who this is supposed to affect if everyone is an exception to the rule.
... the fuck. Who the fuck hears those two words in this country and doesn't immediately think Jim Crow?
(I know who, but...)
No one. It's just the Republican half of your country is pro-Jim-Crow.
Everything about this whole thing is designed to fuck over minorities and also some of the poor too.
No, pretty much all of the poor. It's just they have been doing an amazing job at convincing a portion of those poor people to keep voting for them and blame someone else for any/all issues.
Then there is the issue of money. In the US, where healthcare is not a human right, any serious illness comes with a financial shock. The average cost of hospital stays for cancer patients in 2015 was $31,390, according to government figures — about half that year’s median household income.
The rise of online fundraising for medical expenses brings its own troubling consequences, replicating some of the inequalities already dividing the country by forcing people to compete for funds.
“I remember the day we launched the YouCaring site. For me it was devastating,” Koziner says. “Because now the world knew that my daughter had cancer. You’re not just asking for money. You’re telling people what’s wrong.” Masucci says they had ended up stepping over boundaries they would have never imagined crossing. “So we’ve amassed a good amount of money through the YouCaring site and for that we’re grateful, but should it have to be that way?”
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Crowdfunding sick people puts a disproportionate burden on the poor and lower-middle classes, who are the most likely to have family and friends in this situation. An upper-middle class or rich man will mostly know other people of the same class who do not need help when they get sick.
Then there is the issue of money. In the US, where healthcare is not a human right, any serious illness comes with a financial shock. The average cost of hospital stays for cancer patients in 2015 was $31,390, according to government figures — about half that year’s median household income.
The rise of online fundraising for medical expenses brings its own troubling consequences, replicating some of the inequalities already dividing the country by forcing people to compete for funds.
“I remember the day we launched the YouCaring site. For me it was devastating,” Koziner says. “Because now the world knew that my daughter had cancer. You’re not just asking for money. You’re telling people what’s wrong.” Masucci says they had ended up stepping over boundaries they would have never imagined crossing. “So we’ve amassed a good amount of money through the YouCaring site and for that we’re grateful, but should it have to be that way?”
Then there is the issue of money. In the US, where healthcare is not a human right, any serious illness comes with a financial shock. The average cost of hospital stays for cancer patients in 2015 was $31,390, according to government figures — about half that year’s median household income.
The rise of online fundraising for medical expenses brings its own troubling consequences, replicating some of the inequalities already dividing the country by forcing people to compete for funds.
“I remember the day we launched the YouCaring site. For me it was devastating,” Koziner says. “Because now the world knew that my daughter had cancer. You’re not just asking for money. You’re telling people what’s wrong.” Masucci says they had ended up stepping over boundaries they would have never imagined crossing. “So we’ve amassed a good amount of money through the YouCaring site and for that we’re grateful, but should it have to be that way?”
This article is super paygated.
Sorry, it wasn't for me for some reason. It just covers what I mentioned, that many people have turned to crowdfunding and the inherent inequalities there.
with the additional wrinkle that the white poor will probably be all in favor of it, thinking that if we just kick all them freeloadin' [slur]s off the program, there'll be enough to pay for their problems.
This is the most bullshit as "but my religion" gets because the Christian Bible specifically stipulates that healthcare, feeding, and clothing should be given to even 'sinners.' It in fact promotes granting those things to sinners before you give them to yourself. As usual, this isn't about religion, it's about hate.
Could a person frame feeding the homeless as giving healthcare via religious grounds? The only thing I see standing in the way of that is a random person probably isn't a health care worker.
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A financial literacy test and a health literacy test rather than purely an old fashioned literacy test. It should still be able to act much the same.
Requiring a health literacy test for insurance sure does seem pretty backwards.
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So, if you can't read the bottle, you should just be left to die then? Even if you are perfectly capable of following direction from your doctor?
Because 'muricuh dont need to learn from past mistakes, when its all to eager to keep making them again and again and again and again..
Lazy people deserve healthcare too. The only acceptable criteria before providing healthcare are need and availability.
Even the laziest orange fascist horror clown deserve healthcare.
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I'm down with providing opportunity for a better future. Somehow I don't think that's the goal here.
God fucking damnit.
Even if all you cared about was your own skinny wallet, doing this fucking costs you more money!
Given the choice between gaining a dollar, or spending a dollar to hurt a minority, for some of these assholes, there is no choice. It's the latter, every single time.
Of course, the fact that some of the same people cheering this on, will be the same people being hurt by it, well, that's going to be blamed on the Democrats.
Man Kentucky really reaches for the conservative stars.
People of color.
Yes. If you can't read, work, look right, vote right, and decode the secret Ovaltine message, then clearly death is preferable.
Title X is the grant program for family planning and related preventative services.
Manning infamously claimed that contraceptives don't work.
Her successor just doesn't believe in contraceptive research, and promotes a particularly sexist flavor of abstinence only education.
Only the best in charge of women's healthcare.
No one. It's just the Republican half of your country is pro-Jim-Crow.
Everything about this whole thing is designed to fuck over minorities and also some of the poor too.
No, pretty much all of the poor. It's just they have been doing an amazing job at convincing a portion of those poor people to keep voting for them and blame someone else for any/all issues.
I don't know if I'm just noticing it more, but this is a travesty.
Edit: an article about this from a UK paper
Why are so many Americans crowdfunding their healthcare?
I mean really is it worth living at that point? Let us decrease the surplus population
no, that's also bad!
for some reason
Sorry, it wasn't for me for some reason. It just covers what I mentioned, that many people have turned to crowdfunding and the inherent inequalities there.
Well, they did say she was "escorted physically"...
Have we tried... killing the poor?
That's your current healthcare system.
Oh, they do think Jim Crow. As in "I wish, we still had that!"
Is there any way to stop this?
with the additional wrinkle that the white poor will probably be all in favor of it, thinking that if we just kick all them freeloadin' [slur]s off the program, there'll be enough to pay for their problems.
I would assume the ACLU is working on short term solutions, the long term solution is getting these people out of office.
The harder the rain, honey, the sweeter the sun.
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/01/18/578811426/trump-will-protect-health-workers-who-reject-patients-on-religious-grounds
This is the most bullshit as "but my religion" gets because the Christian Bible specifically stipulates that healthcare, feeding, and clothing should be given to even 'sinners.' It in fact promotes granting those things to sinners before you give them to yourself. As usual, this isn't about religion, it's about hate.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/11/90-year-old-florida-veteran-arrested-feeding-homeless-bans-2/