Millions are being pushed off the Medicaid rolls, undoing the biggest health care coverage expansion since Obamacare.

Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the committee that oversees Medicaid, likened some states’ attempts to stop people from losing coverage to “waving at somebody as their car goes by, and going, well, we contacted you.”

  • circularfish@beehaw.orgOPM
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    11 months ago

    I basically agree. As mentioned below, there are several issues, health care among them, that are winners at the ballot box if dems get the messaging right and are willing to go to the mat over principle.

    • Can-Utility@beehaw.org
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      11 months ago

      I hate that we’re at this point, but I feel like reproductive rights is the wedge issue that has the best potential to break open state and federal legislatures for Democrats. The other issues you cited poll well, but haven’t historically translated into reliable votes. Reproductive rights are much more salient. It makes me hopeful for the next few cycles but I worry that if and when a Democratic Congress is able to safeguard abortion rights once again people will fall back into old patterns. Eternal vigilance is the price to pay for a truly civilized society.

      • circularfish@beehaw.orgOPM
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        11 months ago

        I agree again, and just posted up an article about that very thing.

        I do think health care can be this way too, though. It just has to be explained in a manner that is personal to Joe and Jill public. Stop talking about taking away private insurance, cause that will just scare them, and start talking about how they are already one serious illness and a faceless algorithm away from bankruptcy, which is scary, but in an accurate way.