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Cutting Federal Medicaid Payments to States:  Bad News for Their Credit Ratings Medicaid is the nation’s largest health insurer, covering over 70 million Americans.  And, as a new CCF report documents, it is a particularly important source of coverage for children and adu…

Slashing federal funding for #Medicaid will devastate state budgets. It will also significantly weaken states' credit ratings. That will sharply increase the cost of borrowing and make it harder to finance infrastructure and other capital investments: #healthpolicy ccf.georgetown.edu/2025/01/22/c...

With Congress contemplating huge cuts to Medicaid our new brief with the Healthy Schools campaign underscores how these cuts would threaten student success in school.

Health has a profound effect on how well children do in school.
#Medicaid

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I never thought I'd say this bc generally really like Bluesky but on a day like today on #txlege I really miss old twitter if only to see @scottbraddock.bsky.social's live tweets

LA fires are a good reminder that the only difference between me and any refugee is luck.

Occasional reminder that there’s no, “it’s too late, its over” for anthropogenic climate change. Every molecule of CO2 that doesn’t go into the atmosphere makes a difference. Preventing 0.1 degree of warming makes a difference. Every bit of climate resilience we build together makes a difference.

Medicaid Facts: #Medicaid serves a vital countercyclical, economic stabilizer role during recessions. When unemployment rises and state tax revenues fall, federal Medicaid funding rises in response as more people become eligible if they lose their jobs & job-based coverage. #healthpolicy

We ‘have our head in the sand’: Health experts warn US isn’t reacting fast enough to threat of bird flu | CNN The US hasn’t learned lessons from the Covid-19 pandemic that it could use to mitigate the threat of pathogens like H5N1 bird flu that keep showing signs of their own pandemic potential, health expert...

We ‘have our head in the sand’: Dr. Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator under Trump, says US isn’t reacting fast enough to threat of bird flu www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/h...

This is how to do it, kids: Home insurance is now a climate story. Put it on the front, and put "climate change" at the top. Especially now that deniers will control the federal and state government.

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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.” ― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

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― David W. Orr, Ecological Literacy: Educating Our Children for a Sustainable World

With Medicaid facing severe threats next year, I will be periodically posting facts about the program which demonstrate the many critical roles that Medicaid plays.

Medicaid covers 62% of all nursing home residents. #healthpolicy

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We’re going to need our science & health journals, our universities, & our health & science academies to STEP UP

They need to stop being risk-averse

They need to champion science & evidence in the face of Trump’s relentless attacks

His picks to lead the health agencies are ghastly & terrifying

Q: Where do the largest shares of Americans get their health insurance through the Affordable Care Act #Obamacare Marketplaces?

A: In Southern red states

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Texas has the worst uninsured rate in the country. Cutting Medicaid would increase pressure on emergency services, and drive up uncompensated care costs—ultimately straining the healthcare system and the state economy. Resilient communities and economies need healthcare access.

CBS Evening News needs to stop sugar-coating bad news. Per: RFK Jr. in charge of US public health, they said PH experts are "alarmed" (no, horrified) & that RFK spreads "misleading" information (no, lies). They then quoted RFK saying that "no vaccine is safe and effective."

This is how we go down.

Truly. Big thanks for helping in the practice of intentional connection.

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Libraries are precious and beautiful and must be defended

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Made the switch from the hellscape app (it had been a long time coming), and now that I’m rebuilding my follows: appreciate any recs on all things TX, health, climate, and poetry/arts. Thx!