Dania Douglas

Mike Johnson: I Am Tuning Out the News Cycle to Focus on Self-Care Don’t ask me about the news. I am protecting my mental space.

STOP ASKING MIKE JOHNSON ABOUT THE NEWS! HE IS PROTECTING HIS MENTAL SPACE!

happy new year a few sweet offerings for you 🍯

Shana tova, people--

here's a beautiful meditation from the organizer Erika Katske that I have turned to many times over the years,

a stunning poem by @hilaratzabi.bsky.social

and some other goodies for your soul 🍯✨

Webinar: How to Prepare for Medicaid Work Requirements On July 4th, President Trump signed the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" (OBBBA) into law, enacting the most sweeping and harmful Medicaid cuts in U.S. history. Medicaid work requirements -- the...

🚨 Medicaid is under attack. Trump’s OBBBA law brings the largest cuts ever, work requirements that will gut care for millions. In this webinar, Shandra Hartly, David Machledt & @reprolawyer.bsky.social break down what advocates need to know. 💪 healthlaw.org/resource/web...

Excellent piece quoting my colleague @machledtdc.bsky.social.

This #MedicaidMinute takeover by @mariatown.bsky.social of @aapd-disability.bsky.social is more important now than ever after the vote to gut Medicaid by $930 billion.

This #DisabilityPrideMonth let’s all commit to building the care economy all disabled people deserve.

I thought there was a word for this.

@edwincpark.bsky.social explains last night's Congressional Budget Office analysis of the Senate Republican reconciliation bill. TLDR: Senate bill would cut gross federal #Medicaid and CHIP spending by $1.02 trillion over the next ten years, more than the House-passed bill cuts.

The Senate reconciliation bill will already gut state financing of #Medicaid expansion by eliminating existing provider tax revenue forcing states to drop it. The end of expansion would be virtually certain if the 90% federal matching rate is also eliminated and federal financing is slashed.

Trump's war on Medicaid will institutionalize millions of people The GOP wants to fund billionaire tax cuts—and let disabled Americans pay the price.

Institutional care isn't optional under Medicaid. Home and community based services care is optional. Cutting Medicaid will lead to more people losing HCBS and be forced into nursing homes, as I wrote for @motherjones.com in January. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Action Alert: Senate Budget Reconciliation Update - AAPD This weekend, the Senate is trying to pass the budget reconciliation bill. AAPD is an outspoken opponent of the budget reconciliation bill, because of its significant cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and other...

What’s happening with the Senate Budget Reconciliation Bill? Cuts to Medicaid and SNAP that will cause people to loose access the healthcare and food they need to survive. Please contact your Senators NOW and tell them to vote NO on this awful bill.

www.aapd.com/reconciliati...

Thread on just posted Senate Budget Committee reconciliation bill language. Despite Byrd Rule problems the draconian #Medicaid cuts are still largely the same as in initial language from 1.5 weeks ago and remain harsher than the House passed bill's cuts. (1/x): www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

www.cbpp.org/press/statem...

Thank you Chris and @nicolejorwic.bsky.social

Medicaid didn’t just keep David alive.
It let his mom return to work.
It kept their rural Tlingit community whole.

@littlelobbyists.com shows us: Medicaid isn’t just a safety net. It’s a lifeline — and a promise we can’t break.
#ProtectMedicaid

Excellent piece summarizing the folly and waste of work requirements.

Paper that reads ACA, Affordable Care Act sitting on a desk next to a stethoscope.

HHS just finalized the “integrity and affordability” rule—rolling back progress on health coverage access. It raises costs, adds red tape, and could cut off up to 1.8M people in 2026. This isn’t about fraud. It’s about denying care. By Alicia Emanuel & Shandra Hartly
🔗 healthlaw.org/the-punitive...

Thread on highly inadequate and flawed "rural health transformation" fund intended to prevent rural hospitals from closing or cutting services/staff in face of draconian #Medicaid cuts in Senate reconciliation bill. Details from @punchbowlnews.bsky.social here (1/x): punchbowl.news/rural-health...

2,405,000 people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda.

16 million people would lose health coverage and become uninsured under the Republican health agenda, including 2,405,000 people in Florida.

Policymakers should protect people’s health care, not cut it.

The budget bill in the Senate will "put us back in a system where people at the low end are literally dying to fund these tax cuts for rich people and businesses." Thank you to my colleague @machledtdc.bsky.social for his terrific quote here.

You are doing your best.

You are worthy of love.

Have some nature magic.

Medicaid keeps getting more popular as Republicans aim to cut it by $800 billion Americans across the political spectrum like Medicaid and think it should get more funding, not less, according to a new poll from health research organization KFF.

Medicaid is popular. Medicaid is efficient. And Medicaid keeps individuals and communities healthy! And yet they want billions in cuts to give tax breaks to the rich. 🙄https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/06/17/nx-s1-5435312/medicaid-cuts-big-beautiful-bill-trump-kff-poll

Top 10 Reasons Why the Senate Finance Committee’s Reconciliation Bill Is Worse than the House-passed Bill Regarding Health Coverage Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee recently released their draft of the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act”, proposing to cut even more Medicaid funding than the House-passed bill (which i...

Take action, y’all! The Senate Republicans aren’t saving Medicaid. They went and made a bad bill even worse! New provisions squeeze states to drop their Medicaid expansion: healthlaw.org/resource/top...

CA governor lambasts Trump for giving deportation officials immigrant health data Many undocumented immigrants have long feared that their Medi-Cal data would be used against them. Newsom calls it "an abuse."

“Medicaid exists to ensure access to lifesaving health care,” said Kim Lewis, @nhelp.bsky.social’s director of California policy. “People who need health care should be able to get it without fear of ICE raids.” Reporting from @calmatters.org calmatters.org/health/2025/...

The Senate's version of the Republican budget bill makes even deeper cuts to Medicaid, leaving more people without insurance and access to care.

KFF donut chart titled "Medicaid changes in House and Senate reconciliation bills would increase costs for 1.3 million low-income Medicare beneficiaries." The chart shows 2.3 million people will lose Medicaid coverage and indicates 43% will be Medicaid enrollees without Medicare and 57% will be Medicaid enrollees with Medicare.

CBO estimates costs would rise for 1.3M Medicare beneficiaries under the House and Senate reconciliation bills.

The Senate bill blocks two Biden rules that would make it easier for people to get and maintain Medicaid coverage. on.kff.org/4jRTM13

Senate Finance Committee Reconciliation Bill Would More Harshly Restrict State Use of Provider Taxes by Targeting Expansion State Financing On June 16, the Senate Finance Committee unveiled preliminary bill language for its section of the Senate Republican budget reconciliation bill. Senate Republican leaders could have chosen to moder…

My new @georgetownccf.bsky.social blog post on the #Medicaid provider tax restrictions in the Senate Republican reconciliation bill, how they are even harsher than the House-passed bill, and would devastate Medicaid financing in expansion states: ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/06/18/s...

"Is the new Senate GOP plan worse for health care?"

@booker.senate.gov: "Heck yeah."

Worse Medicaid cuts. Worse for rural hospitals. Worse for people who need it to survive. All behind closed doors.

We have to fight back. #ProtectMedicaid

Father knows best.

#SaveMedicaidKillTheBill

House Passage of GOP’s Budget Bill Slashes Medicaid, Attacks Low-Income Individuals and Families - National Health Law Program WASHINGTON, DC — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act, a sweeping proposal that slashes billions of dollars from the Medicaid program and imposes ...

This morning, the House passed a bill that would strip health care from millions of low-income people.

Lawmakers know exactly what impact this bill will have. It is not fiscal responsibility. It is cruelty and indifference by design. We must #ProtectMedicaid

healthlaw.org/news/house-p...

Congrats to my colleague @reprolawyer.bsky.social. Well-deserved recognition for her work.