Kevin Prindiville

A lack of nursing home oversight is a problem for many states Many state nursing home oversight agencies are understaffed. Advocates for residents say that is increasingly putting people who live in nursing homes at greater risk of abuse and neglect.

Understaffing at state agencies that oversee #NursingHomes puts residents at greater risk of abuse and neglect. And it's a growing problem, as I explain in this NPR piece. The good news: @justiceinaging.org is pursuing a legal strategy to help address it.

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Justice in Aging's Statement on Final Passage of Budget Bill - Justice in Aging The bill sets a dangerous precedent that Congress will use Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP as a piggy bank for billionaires.

"Cutting Medicaid, Medicare, and SNAP is morally indefensible under any circumstance, but this budget bill is particularly cruel," said @kevinprindiville.bsky.social.

It endangers not only the lives of today’s older adults but future generations as well.

Read Justice in Aging's full statement:

Local lawmakers mum on Senate bill ahead of House vote Kern County’s lawmakers are declining to comment on the Senate’s passage of the major spending bill until after the U.S. House of Representatives casts its own vote Wednesday.

@californiaalliance.bsky.social members rallied outside Rep. Valadao's office, demanding he keep his word and vote against devastating cuts to Medicaid.

The clock is ticking: call 202-225-3121 and tell your Representative to vote NO.

🔗: www.bakersfield.com/news/local-l...

CBO has indicated 900,000 low-income adults aged 55 through 64 will lose food assistance under the expansion of SNAP's harsh work requirement to older adults.

Older workers face employment discrimination & half of low-income adults in this age range face health barriers to work.

Justice in Aging Condemns Senate Vote to Gut Medicaid and SNAP - Justice in Aging Justice in Aging condemns the Senate's passage of the budget reconciliation bill, which would cut health care and nutrition assistance that older adults,

The Senate just passed a dangerous and deeply unpopular budget bill that cuts health care and food assistance to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

@kevinprindiville.bsky.social characterized the bill as "a staggering betrayal of our nation's older adults."

Read our full statement:

So states will have no choice but to deeply cut their #Medicaid programs in response and HCBS cuts are often at the top of the list based on past experience (6/x): www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

One more thread on a new provision in Senate reconciliation bill that Senate GOP will misleadingly tout as expanding access to home- and community-based services for seniors and people with disabilities (section 71123) but in context of the bill, it won't be meaningful (1/x)

Breaking News: Nonviolent protestors arrested today in the US #Senate, chanting #NoCutsToMedicaid, in opposition to the Big #Budget Bill they are seeking to vote on this weekend. #Medicaid

cc: @familiesusa.bsky.social

🧵 @paidleaveforall.bsky.social Community Change & @caringacross.org just asked men across America how they feel about masculinity, the state of our country, and the family policy solutions they most believe in.

The answer?

Over a thousand disability + aging organizations signed this letter outlining how harmful cuts to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act will be for disability and aging communities. www.c-c-d.org/fichiers/Sen...

Medicaid pays for 54% of all long-term care in the U.S.
Without it, families go bankrupt or seniors go without.

This is non-negotiable. #HandsOffMedicaid

snap cuts, growing to 35% by 2034

chip and medicaid cuts growing to 12-14% by 2034

Cost estimate of the House-passed "Big Beautiful Bill" is out

It'd be the largest cut to Medicaid+CHIP and SNAP in history while still increasing deficits by $2.4 trillion due to $3.8 trillion in tax cuts

This'd be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history

As the House bill went to the floor some demanded more cuts to Medicaid.

Based on the new CBO score out today, the largest cut to Medicaid ever went up by c. $75 billion as a result of these changes in the House passed bill.

The draconian Medicaid cuts now 🟰 $863 billion.

People With Disabilities Face Great Harm from Federal and State Budget Cuts Cuts to Medi-Cal, IHSS, and other essential programs threaten the health, independence, and well-being of Californians with disabilities.

Medi-Cal, In-Home Supportive Services, and other core programs allow Californians with disabilities to live safely and independently. Cutting these supports is unconscionable.
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Quote graphic: "A vote to gut Medicaid and SNAP is a vote to abandon seniors. If this bill becomes law, millions of seniors and people with disabilities will have the essential care and support they rely on every day taken away. This isn't speculation-it's a stark reality we have experienced after far less severe cuts." —Kevin Prindiville Executive Director, Justice in Aging

Today, the House voted to pass a bill that would make unprecedented cuts to #Medicaid, #Medicare, and SNAP—all to fund tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans.

@kevinprindiville.bsky.social called the vote an “unconscionable” choice to abandon seniors.

Our statement: to.justiceinaging.org/01WlydY

Broken Promises: Republicans’ Budget Reconciliation Bill Would Cut Medicare - Justice in Aging The OBBBA takes direct aim at Medicare, gutting eligibility and restricting access to benefits, while also cutting Medicaid in ways that would harm people who are dually eligible for both programs. Fo...

Medicare was supposed to be left untouched in the budget reconciliation. But that's not the case. Read more from @nataliekean.bsky.social & Julie Carter on how Medicare enrollees will be harmed. And call your lawmakers - the House is set to vote soon! 866-426-2631 justiceinaging.org/broken-promi...

My @FamiliesUSA statement on the budget bill that would force millions of Americans to lose coverage and millions more to face higher health costs--in both public and private coverage, including Medicaid, Medicare and the ACA marketplaces.

Thread: Latest House GOP reconciliation bill language again makes the draconian #Medicaid cuts harsher. For example, mandatory work requirements now will take effect 12/31/26 instead of 1/1/29 and states have option to implement them earlier (1/x)

By the Numbers: House Bill Takes Health Coverage Away From Millions of People and Raises Families’ Health Care Costs | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities The House reconciliation bill now taking shape would take health coverage away from millions of people and dramatically raise health care costs for millions more.

House Republicans’ latest changes to the already harmful health provisions of their budget reconciliation bill layer on last minute cuts, swifter coverage losses, more cost increases, and restrictions on care.🧵
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California is projected to see the largest number of newly uninsured of any state — as high as 1.7 million — and that’s based on the previous, less draconian version, so that number is likely higher.

Cannot be said loudly or often enough: the bill House Rs are considering passing tomorrow would rip health insurance and food assistance from millions, leaving the poorest households worse off - to partially pay for tax cuts that most help the richest - while increasing the deficit by trillions.

The Congressional Budget Office finds that the reconciliation bill would take from the bottom 10% of the income distribution to give to the top 10% by stripping health care coverage and food assistance away. It's morally reprehensible. www.cbo.gov/system/files...

Thread with a few additional thoughts on the new CBO estimates of the #Medicaid cuts in House GOP reconciliation bill (1/x)

There’s been lots of chatter about repealing taxation of Social Security benefits in the tax bill. Turns out Rs opted to increase the standard deduction for some seniors instead.

Will this increase help lower- and middle-income retirees?

Nope, and here’s why. 🧵

Make no mistake: Republicans in Congress are coming after #Medicare too!
The legislative text they will consider next week would strip Medicare coverage from immigrants who have been living, working, and paying taxes in the U.S. for decades.

Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.🧵 energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...

It's nuts that this GOP #Budget proposal, dropped after dark late on Mother's Day, is going to be voted on in a committee starting just 40 hours later, and is not going to have a single hearing on any of the provisions that its backers admit are big and consequential..

The nonpartisan CBO estimates 8.6M more Americans will be uninsured as a result of the new GOP budget bill's #Medicaid cuts.. and another 5.1M from #ACA changes.

That's at least 13.7 million more Americans living sicker, dying younger, and one emergency away from financial ruin.

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@justiceinaging.org comes to the mic to share more stories from elders who want to #ProtectMedicaid

Dr. Margot Kushel speaks to the California State Assembly Housing and Community Development Committee.

Dr. @mkushel.bsky.social shared research at yesterday’s CA Housing/CD Committee on what’s needed to sustain progress on homelessness.

“We actually do know how to end this crisis. It is hard, but it is doable, and it will take sustained investments at all levels of government.”

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