Jason Resendez
@jason4care.bsky.social
President & CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving. Felix’s dad. Georgetown Hoya. South Texan in DC. Opinions mine.
A terrific NPR piece by @amilnetyte.bsky.social that highlights an ever-growing need and includes insights from @jason4care.bsky.social and Navigating Soli's Ailene Gerhardt, BCPA, CSA. www.npr.org/2026/06/21/n...
How to prepare for the rise of solo agers
There's a huge cohort of people who are aging without immediate family members to help them. Advocates say this is an opportunity to build better support for everyone.
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Absolutely, there’s an urgent crisis in this country,” says @jason4care.bsky.social, president of the National Alliance for Caregiving. 1 in 4 adults care for relatives with complex needs—often unpaid. Lawmakers must act to support this invisible workforce. WATCH: www.wtoc.com/2025/11/04/c...
Caregiving Crisis: Nearly 1 in 4 US adults serve as caregivers for relatives with complex needs
Caregiving for a loved one is not just a good deed. It’s a public health issue.
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Facts: If Congress doesn't extend the ACA subsidies, 24 million Americans will see their health care costs skyrocket. app.sosha.ai/s/8eVdJ9Q9
The Associated Press: Millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs unless Congress extends subsidies
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The effects this will have on care will be felt amongst paid and unpaid caregivers alike. #CareCantWait #CareNotCuts 🧵 1/2 www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/...
Family caregivers worry over planned Medicaid cuts' impact
About 63 million Americans, or a quarter of adults over 18, take care of an older or disabled person at home, and many rely on Medicaid funding for help.
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🚨 NEW: 1 in 4 American adults (63 million) are now family caregivers—20 million MORE than 2015. Our 2025 report with @AARP shows caregiving is more demanding but systems are finally responding. Progress is happening, just not fast enough. Explore the data: www.caregivingintheus.org #Caregiving
Jason Resendez@jason4care.bsky.social · last yr.When your aging parent needs medication, you don't "get over it." When your disabled child needs an aid, you don't "get over it." When you're choosing between rent and medical bills, you don't "get over it" ... we don't get over our need for care. #CareCantWait #ProtectMedicaid
Thread on latest language for the "rural health transformation program" intended to mitigate devastating cuts rural hospitals will face under the reconciliation bill. While the language may still change the program gives even more disturbing discretion to HHS Secretary in awarding the $ (1/x)
After the majority of the Senate voted to strip millions of Americans of healthcare coverage, the Senate chaplain ends the session with a prayer ..."Help them to be servants of the people." The people just got screwed.
July marks Medicaid's 75th birthday! 🎂 75 YEARS of keeping millions of Americans alive and financially stable. Meanwhile, the Senate GOP is literally voting to gut it with the deepest cuts in history. The irony is not lost on us. 💀
New rundown of what’s in the OBBB from the @NYT with some editorial from me… spoiler: more 💰for the rich, less for the poor www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Nearly 1/2 of states are on the brink of a caregiving crisis yet policymakers from those very states are about to vote to gut #Medicaid to give massive tax breaks to the ultra rich... who are these people serving?
So basically he's like "you cannot take away health care from working people but I'm going to vote to taking health care from working people." Make it make sense...
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · last yr.Hawley is a YES But: "This has been an unhappy episode here in Congress, this effort to cut Medicaid... Frankly, my party needs to do some soul searching. If you want to be a working-class party, you’ve got to deliver for working-class people. You cannot take away health care from working people."
#Medicaid expansion covers many people with disabilities not severe enough/incomes not low enough for SSI. It’s for adults with incomes below 138% of poverty line with most below 100%. And none of the severe Senate cuts gutting expansion are reinvested. They’re going to pay for tax cuts for wealthy.
Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · last yr.GRAHAM to me says on Medicaid: “The thing we're trying to address that need, one thing we can't do is punt right?” Says the Obamacare expansion “actually takes money away from the disabled and the poor.” Republicans like Tillis and Hawley are worried about provider taxes hurting hospitals
“States are not ready or equipped to implement these work requirements, and that’s going to cause even more harm." @nataliekean.bsky.social of @justiceinaging.org laying down the facts on the reconciliation package moving through the senate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Medicaid
‘People are going to die’: how Medicaid work requirements cost people their health insurance
Those caring for relatives with severe disabilities say planned Republican cuts will be fatal for some
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When your aging parent needs medication, you don't "get over it." When your disabled child needs an aid, you don't "get over it." When you're choosing between rent and medical bills, you don't "get over it" ... we don't get over our need for care. #CareCantWait #ProtectMedicaid
I teamed up with @govmlg.bsky.social to spotlight the vital role #Medicaid plays in supporting family caregivers. We urge the senate to reject deep cuts to the program. Check out our piece in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/heal... #ProtectMedicaid #CareCantWait #CaregiverNation
We can’t afford paid leave. We can’t afford elder care. We can’t afford community services. But somehow we always find billions for wars we didn’t ask for. Make it make sense. 🤔
Especially on hard days like today, when Congress inches closer to dismantling #Medicaid, it's important to celebrate those who've shown us how to persevere. Happy 95th birthday to my hero Dolores Huerta! Her warmth, humility, & fierce commitment will always inspire me to keep going. Se si puede!
Our statement on the restructuring of HHS and its potential impact on our nation's 53+ family caregivers. www.caregiving.org/the-national...
Facts: Representatives Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) voted to gut #Medicaid while nearly 1 in 5 of Burchett's constituents and 1 in 4 of Spartz's rely on Medicaid for their healthcare....
What a rough night but grateful to all the advocates who showed up BIG and will continue to show up BIG for Medicaid, SNAP, and the programs working class Americans rely on to make care possible.
I joined @usatoday.com's The Excerpt to talk about men, caregiving, & the importance of policies like #Medicaid, paid leave, & #Medicare to supporting family caregivers. Listen here: art19.com/shows/5-thin... #caregiving #CareCantWait #CaregiverNation
SPECIAL | More men are becoming family caregivers
With an aging baby boomer population, the demand for family caregivers in the U.S. has never been higher. While traditionally, most family caregiving has fallen to women, men are now increasingly join...
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Check out this powerful ABC News piece following care advocates at the Nat'l Alliance for Caregiving's Caregiver Nation Summit as they champion programs like #Medicaid, Older Americans Act, & #Medicare. It's a powerful reminder of the stakes of today's #Medicaid debate abcnews.go.com/US/invisible...
Invisible crisis: America’s caregivers and the $600 billion unpaid cost of their labor
48 million caregivers in U.S. face emotional, physical and financial struggles.
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NEW: VA and NIH join NSF in scouring grants for taboo words like trans and diversity, but also "women" and "Covid." Scientists fear removal of funding is next. By me, with @angusrohan.bsky.social and @owermohle.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/t...
Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words, unnerving researchers
The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger
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We have a new statement from CBPP President @sharonparrott.bsky.social on Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham’s proposed budget resolution, which presents an opaque and troubling plan with policy trade-offs that are purposely unclear: www.cbpp.org/press/statem...
Senate Republicans’ Opaque Budget Resolution Points in Troubling Direction | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
The budget framework lays a path for a future budget bill that could pay for increased military and homeland security spending with harmful policies that take food assistance and health coverage away ...
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