Anthony Montoya
@anthonymontoya.bsky.social
Former Congressional Staff
Director of Public Policy, Health Share of Oregon
University of Portland Alum
#PDX #ORPOL #RCTID #INRI
Portland, OR
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Director of Public Policy, Health Share of Oregon
University of Portland Alum
#PDX #ORPOL #RCTID #INRI
Portland, OR
(Views my own)
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Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
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FWIW, the main reason ACA enrollment is so much higher in states won by Trump is because they include all 10 of the states which refused to expand Medicaid.
There’s millions of heavily subsidized ACA enrollees who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if those states expanded it.
There’s millions of heavily subsidized ACA enrollees who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if those states expanded it.
October 5, 2025 at 3:06 AM
FWIW, the main reason ACA enrollment is so much higher in states won by Trump is because they include all 10 of the states which refused to expand Medicaid.
There’s millions of heavily subsidized ACA enrollees who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if those states expanded it.
There’s millions of heavily subsidized ACA enrollees who would otherwise be eligible for Medicaid if those states expanded it.
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Brief thread: just a reminder that the budget reconciliation law enacted by President Trump and the GOP Congress (H.R. 1, OBBBA) cut $1.1T/10 yrs in net spending from Medicaid, CHIP & the Marketplaces. That includes $990B in gross #Medicaid cuts: the largest cuts to the program in its history (1/x).
October 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Brief thread: just a reminder that the budget reconciliation law enacted by President Trump and the GOP Congress (H.R. 1, OBBBA) cut $1.1T/10 yrs in net spending from Medicaid, CHIP & the Marketplaces. That includes $990B in gross #Medicaid cuts: the largest cuts to the program in its history (1/x).
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23. #OREGON: ~162,000 ACA enrollees
Avg gross rate change: +9.7% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $763/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +304%
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
Avg gross rate change: +9.7% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $763/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +304%
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
October 1, 2025 at 3:10 AM
23. #OREGON: ~162,000 ACA enrollees
Avg gross rate change: +9.7% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $763/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +304%
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
Avg gross rate change: +9.7% (preliminary)
Avg gross 2026 premium: $763/mo
NET 2026 increase for 64-yr old couple earning $90K/yr if enhanced tax credits expire: +304%
acasignups.net/ira-subsidy-...
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Democrats are pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts. Contrary to Republican talking points, that would not in any way expand health care eligibility for undocumented immigrants.
October 1, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Democrats are pushing to reverse Medicaid and ACA cuts. Contrary to Republican talking points, that would not in any way expand health care eligibility for undocumented immigrants.
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New: According to staff, the Senate floor session scheduled for tomorrow is likely to be delayed again -- by perhaps weeks -- because Sen Chris Gorsek can't make it to the Capitol.
Gorsek has been battling health problems, but is needed to pass a tax package. #orleg #orpol
Gorsek has been battling health problems, but is needed to pass a tax package. #orleg #orpol
September 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
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Kicking heroin is actually the most commendable thing RFK Jr. has ever done and I don't think the fact that he previously used drugs should be an attack against him.
September 6, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Kicking heroin is actually the most commendable thing RFK Jr. has ever done and I don't think the fact that he previously used drugs should be an attack against him.
I got to see pre-release screening of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and when Yoda started doing flips while fighting Dooku people started actually screaming. At least one teenage boy started sobbing.
Got me thinking.. What's the strongest reaction you've seen an audience member have to a scene in a cinema?
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
During the birthday party scene in SIGNS I saw a whole row of young women literally throw their popcorn in the air like a cartoon.
Someone in my audience had a very audible negative reaction to the dog scene in TOGETHER. So that was fun!
August 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
I got to see pre-release screening of Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones and when Yoda started doing flips while fighting Dooku people started actually screaming. At least one teenage boy started sobbing.
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are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?
July 28, 2025 at 3:43 PM
are you tired of being brainwashed by the mainstream media?
For those keeping track at home, Oregon has at least two (to my knowledge) continuous eligibility provisions in our waiver: 2 years for most beneficiaries automatically and full coverage ages 0-5 for youth. This is saying that won’t be extended after our waiver expires in 2027.
👀In the name of “protecting vulnerable Americans” the Trump Administration will rip away Medicaid coverage from babies and toddlers👀
CMS announces Medicaid demos that 8 states are implementing to cover babies and young children continuously w/o gaps due to red tape will no longer be allowed.
CMS announces Medicaid demos that 8 states are implementing to cover babies and young children continuously w/o gaps due to red tape will no longer be allowed.
July 18, 2025 at 12:56 AM
For those keeping track at home, Oregon has at least two (to my knowledge) continuous eligibility provisions in our waiver: 2 years for most beneficiaries automatically and full coverage ages 0-5 for youth. This is saying that won’t be extended after our waiver expires in 2027.
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“One analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill suggests that each ‘appropriate’ disenrollment from Medicaid will cost taxpayers $5,000 in bureaucratic overhead—not far off from how much Medicaid spends per person to begin with.”
Annoying People to Death
Why the Medicaid work requirement is a terrible idea.
www.theatlantic.com
July 7, 2025 at 12:27 PM
“One analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill suggests that each ‘appropriate’ disenrollment from Medicaid will cost taxpayers $5,000 in bureaucratic overhead—not far off from how much Medicaid spends per person to begin with.”
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Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
June 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Actually what Americans just saw today was a prominent Republican US Senator announce he is quitting because he knows this budget is going to hurt millions of people and he was repeatedly threatened by the president and his cult for telling the truth about it.
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Thread on just posted Senate Budget Committee reconciliation bill language. Despite Byrd Rule problems the draconian #Medicaid cuts are still largely the same as in initial language from 1.5 weeks ago and remain harsher than the House passed bill's cuts. (1/x): www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
June 28, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Thread on just posted Senate Budget Committee reconciliation bill language. Despite Byrd Rule problems the draconian #Medicaid cuts are still largely the same as in initial language from 1.5 weeks ago and remain harsher than the House passed bill's cuts. (1/x): www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
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i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
‘I Feel Like I’ve Been Lied To’: When a Measles Outbreak Hits Home
www.nytimes.com
June 23, 2025 at 3:24 AM
i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...
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the answer is that they clearly understood black people — free and enslaved — as members of the polity, even if they were subordinated to whites! their view that the american republic was inclusive of everyone within its borders is why even the antislavery framers were pressed about emancipation
June 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
the answer is that they clearly understood black people — free and enslaved — as members of the polity, even if they were subordinated to whites! their view that the american republic was inclusive of everyone within its borders is why even the antislavery framers were pressed about emancipation
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The Senate version of OBBB has made the Medicaid work requirement even worse.
Parents are no longer exempt - the bill includes parents 14+.
Most states that got Medicaid waivers to do work req. including parents of kids 6+ so when R's need more savings expect them to come back and lower this.
1/2
Parents are no longer exempt - the bill includes parents 14+.
Most states that got Medicaid waivers to do work req. including parents of kids 6+ so when R's need more savings expect them to come back and lower this.
1/2
June 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Senate version of OBBB has made the Medicaid work requirement even worse.
Parents are no longer exempt - the bill includes parents 14+.
Most states that got Medicaid waivers to do work req. including parents of kids 6+ so when R's need more savings expect them to come back and lower this.
1/2
Parents are no longer exempt - the bill includes parents 14+.
Most states that got Medicaid waivers to do work req. including parents of kids 6+ so when R's need more savings expect them to come back and lower this.
1/2
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the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
June 15, 2025 at 1:11 AM
the story today is of a profoundly low energy military parade being met with millions of americans in nationwide protests denouncing the dictatorial pretensions of the president
This morning, the Oregon State Senate passed HB 2205 A, a bill that I've been working on very closely this Session. It has already passed the House, so now makes its way to the Governor's desk. #ORPOL
June 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
This morning, the Oregon State Senate passed HB 2205 A, a bill that I've been working on very closely this Session. It has already passed the House, so now makes its way to the Governor's desk. #ORPOL
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Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
May 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
May 27, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Can't help but feel we're living through an increasingly existential war between spectacle and substance with spectacle winning battle after battle after battle.
Some great musings - time to un-plug! (I’m aware of the irony here.)
Nobody's ever really captured, to my satisfaction, the way that the internet -- though it promises infinitude, all of human experience & history & art & thought in one place -- has instead produced a kind of narrowing & flattening of experience, made the world seem *less* magic & full of wonder.
May 26, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Some great musings - time to un-plug! (I’m aware of the irony here.)
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Medicaid changes in managers amendment are out and the drive to kill the ACA Medicaid expansion by a 1000 cuts accelerates.
1. Work requirement moved up to 12/26 with state option to go earlier
2. State directed payments limited more tightly for expansion states
1. Work requirement moved up to 12/26 with state option to go earlier
2. State directed payments limited more tightly for expansion states
May 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Medicaid changes in managers amendment are out and the drive to kill the ACA Medicaid expansion by a 1000 cuts accelerates.
1. Work requirement moved up to 12/26 with state option to go earlier
2. State directed payments limited more tightly for expansion states
1. Work requirement moved up to 12/26 with state option to go earlier
2. State directed payments limited more tightly for expansion states
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Over 400 people in PDX are watching this...at 10PM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0MK...
Portland City Council Meeting 05/21/25
YouTube video by eGov PDX
www.youtube.com
May 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Over 400 people in PDX are watching this...at 10PM. www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0MK...
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A provision in the House reconciliation bill seeks to reduce federal Medicaid funding to states as a penalty for providing coverage to undocumented immigrants with state funds.
Our analysis examines its potential impact on state Medicaid spending:
Our analysis examines its potential impact on state Medicaid spending:
Proposed Medicaid Federal Match Penalty for States that Cover Undocumented Immigrants with Their Own Funds: State-by-State Estimates | KFF
This analysis examines the potential impacts of a provision in the House reconciliation bill that proposes reducing the federal matching rate for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) Medicaid expansion popul...
on.kff.org
May 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
A provision in the House reconciliation bill seeks to reduce federal Medicaid funding to states as a penalty for providing coverage to undocumented immigrants with state funds.
Our analysis examines its potential impact on state Medicaid spending:
Our analysis examines its potential impact on state Medicaid spending: