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One expert said Texas’ unwinding stance was, 'We don’t do anything illegal, but we want to get our program as fast as we can down to what it was before the pandemic.'
5. Some Texas families that lost Medicaid coverage during the unwinding are also waiting more than a month for food assistance because the state uses the same eligibility system to process both applications. 'It’s felt like a one-two punch,; said one food bank CEO.
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More than 1 million lost coverage for bureaucratic reasons, like failing to return a form, not because they weren’t eligible.
3. Disenrollment mistakes were preventable and foreshadowed by warnings from the federal government, whistleblowers and advocates.
4. Texas is under federal investigation for its long Medicaid enrollment waits.
#Texas #Medicaid #ProLife #Republicans #healthcare
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Jessica Priest, Lomi Kriel, and Eleanor Klibanoff look at what Texas is doing to people who qualify for Medicaid. Key findings:
1. Texas has stripped Medicaid coverage from 2 million people, most of them children.
2. After the COVID-19 public health emergency ended, states were free to “unwind” people off Medicaid. Texas moved aggressively.
#Texas #Medicaid #ProLife #Republicans #healthcare
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Caught in Texas’ Medicaid and Food Stamp Application Backlog? Know Someone Who Is? Help Us Report.
Your stories will help our team identify the root causes of the issues and do journalism in the public interest.ProPublica
At his Law Dork site, Chris Geidner offers an instructive conversaion with Nico Lang, Orion Rummler, and Chase Strangio about the fight for trans youth in 2024.
#trans #Republicans #ProLife #suicide #healthcare
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Law Dork Video: Reporting on and fighting for trans kids in 2024
"Everything is on the line," Chase Strangio says. The ACLU lawyer joins journalists Nico Lang and Orion Rummler in an essential Law Dork Video discussion.Chris Geidner (Law Dork)
"This disparity allows researchers to treat the differing outcomes as a 'natural experiment,' providing direct evidence that anti-trans bans cause harm in a way that few previous studies could achieve… evidence that The Trevor Project was collecting along the way."
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"Due to the wide variation in laws and protections surrounding transgender individuals across the United States, roughly half of all states have enacted extreme anti-trans legislation, including bans on gender-affirming care. Meanwhile, the other half have passed no such laws, with many even expanding protections for transgender people and their healthcare."
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"In a groundbreaking study published in Nature on Thursday, researchers found that anti-trans bans lead to a 72% increase in suicide attempts among transgender individuals, compared to states without such legislation."
~Erin Reed
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Groundbreaking Study: Anti-trans State Laws Increased Suicide Attempts By 72%
The study, published in Nature Human Behavior, offers critical insight into the effects of anti-trans legislation, including healthcare bans, on transgender youth and is the first study of its kind.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
"Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week, an unusually high number of executions that defies a yearslong trend of decline in both the use and support of the death penalty in the U.S."
~ Sean Murphy
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #Republicans #ProLife #Trump
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There are 5 executions set over a week's span in the US
Death row inmates in five states have been put to death in the span of one week. This was the first time in more than 20 years that five executions had been held in seven days.SEAN MURPHY (AP News)
"While much of the US is focused on Donald Trump’s remolding of the Republican party and his efforts to bring his Make America Great Again (Maga) movement back to the White House in November’s election, a parallel shift has taken hold in the death penalty world, albeit behind the scenes and largely unnoticed."
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #Republicans #ProLife #Trump
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Five executions in five states — Republican-led states — in one week, as the fall election nears:
"Such a concentrated glut of judicial killing was last seen more than 20 years ago in the US."
~ Ed Pilkington
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #Republicans #ProLife #Trump
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Six days of horror: America’s thirst for executions returns with a vengeance
Five executions, five states: a glut of judicial killing not seen in 20 years took place last week – and there was nothing random about itEd Pilkington (The Guardian)
"Five executions are scheduled in America over the course of the next week. There are multiple strong innocence claims, and one man whose execution was already botched previously. A harsh reminder of how awful the death penalty is."
~ Chris Geidner
