Robyn Hyden
@robynhyden.bsky.social
Executive Director @alabamaarise.bsky.social Life-long Alabamian Posts about #alpolitics and state policies to promote dignity, equity and justice for all.
Alabama House votes 75-29 (on party lines) to allow new primary elections if the courts allow the use of congressional and legislative maps previously ruled discriminatory. Protestors leaving the gallery chant “Vote Them Out” and sing “Ain’t Nobody Going To Turn Me Around.”
Improving affordability is the top health care priority of MAHA voters. But, it hasn't been a major part of the MAHA policy agenda. In fact, Medicaid cuts and expiration of enhanced ACA premium subsidies move in the opposite direction. www.kff.org/public-opini...
KFF Health Tracking Poll: MAHA and the Midterms | KFF
This KFF Health Tracking Poll finds that the cost of health care is a more prominent focus for Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) voters than issues like food and vaccine policy. Four in ten MAHA voter...
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The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office just issued an analysis that makes it clear: when you add up the tax cuts and the cuts to Medicaid, SNAP and other services, the rich gain, the poor lose. Read CBO analysis --> bit.ly/4jZQud3
No cuts to Medicaid. No cuts to food assistance. No cuts to workers’ retirement. Working people won’t accept a budget that hurts working people while handing out tax cuts to billionaires. Congress must reject any deal that hurts working families.
The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.
“Even people who are eligible would get cut because of an inability to comply with a lot of red tape and bureaucracy,” Arise's @robynhyden.bsky.social tells @alander.bsky.social at the @alabamareflector.com.
Alabama Reflector@alabamareflector.com · 2y agoVia @alander.bsky.social: The federal government pays for about 73% of Alabama’s Medicaid program. State officials and advocates say the cuts under discussion in the U.S. House could cripple the state health system and would fall hardest on vulnerable populations.
Richest guy in the world telling us we can’t afford to have our government fund cancer research.
Read our report from an interview we had with @robynhyden.bsky.social from @alabamaarise.bsky.social https://buff.ly/3Qq83FW
“One example I would use is a friend I know who works at Advance Auto Parts. Her take-home pay is $600 a week, or $32,000 a year, so she could opt in to pay for health insurance through her employer, [but] it would take more than one-third of her paycheck,” Arise's @robynhyden.bsky.social said.
Alabama Reflector@alabamareflector.com · 2y agoVia @alander.bsky.social: An Alabama House committee Wednesday approved a bill that would allow Medicaid to sue some parents who don’t enroll their children in employer-provided health insurance when available.
The hospital where I took my son when he needed stitches, where my primary care physician is based, where my friend’s son was rushed after he was shot, is at risk of closing bc Alabama refuses to expand Medicaid. It’s far past time to take this lifesaving step. What are we waiting for? #alpolitics
Whit Sides@brightsides.bsky.social · 2y agoOur new Cover Alabama billboard is up in Montgomery, highlighting the dangerous cost of not expanding Medicaid in our state.
