Jason Resendez
@jason4care.bsky.social
President & CEO of the National Alliance for Caregiving. Felix’s dad. Georgetown Hoya. South Texan in DC. Opinions mine.
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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September 23, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Facts: If Congress doesn't extend the ACA subsidies, 24 million Americans will see their health care costs skyrocket. app.sosha.ai/s/8eVdJ9Q9
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The effects this will have on care will be felt amongst paid and unpaid caregivers alike. #CareCantWait #CareNotCuts
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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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August 1, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The effects this will have on care will be felt amongst paid and unpaid caregivers alike. #CareCantWait #CareNotCuts
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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
Explore the data: www.caregivingintheus.org #Caregiving
July 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
🚨 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
Explore the data: www.caregivingintheus.org #Caregiving
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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
July 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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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)
July 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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. 💀
July 1, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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/...
June 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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?
June 28, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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...
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."
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."
Senate Republicans release 940-page bill for Trump's agenda as they race to vote this weekend www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
June 28, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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...
Senate Republicans right now...
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June 26, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Senate Republicans right now...
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#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.
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
June 25, 2025 at 4:52 PM
#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.
“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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June 25, 2025 at 12:02 PM
“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
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
June 24, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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
June 23, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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. 🤔
June 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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!
April 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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...
March 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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....
February 26, 2025 at 1:41 AM
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.
February 26, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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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February 24, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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
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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February 19, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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...
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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
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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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February 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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
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