Athena Savides
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An important thread on the proposed Medicaid cuts from Congress. $700 million in cuts tossing 8 million people off insurance.
#ProtectMedicaid
#ProtectMedicaid
Energy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread.
tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year
LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)
tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year
LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)
May 12, 2025 at 4:43 PM
An important thread on the proposed Medicaid cuts from Congress. $700 million in cuts tossing 8 million people off insurance.
#ProtectMedicaid
#ProtectMedicaid
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lots and lots of increased screening where they say it's all about making sure people are only on medicaid when they "should be" - but also means tons more places for people to get caught in red tape and lose their medicaid.
May 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
lots and lots of increased screening where they say it's all about making sure people are only on medicaid when they "should be" - but also means tons more places for people to get caught in red tape and lose their medicaid.
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Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams.
Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!
Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!
March 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams.
Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!
Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!
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"The President has no mandate to cut Medicaid." @algreen.house.gov speaks truth.
#Medicaid provides life saving services for millions of people. It is a critical resource lifting up our health care system. We must #ProtectMedicaid & not let the President's incivility beat our civility.
#Medicaid provides life saving services for millions of people. It is a critical resource lifting up our health care system. We must #ProtectMedicaid & not let the President's incivility beat our civility.
March 5, 2025 at 9:15 PM
"The President has no mandate to cut Medicaid." @algreen.house.gov speaks truth.
#Medicaid provides life saving services for millions of people. It is a critical resource lifting up our health care system. We must #ProtectMedicaid & not let the President's incivility beat our civility.
#Medicaid provides life saving services for millions of people. It is a critical resource lifting up our health care system. We must #ProtectMedicaid & not let the President's incivility beat our civility.
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So-called "waste, fraud, & abuse" is also @govkathyhochul.bsky.social's excuse for selling out Medicaid program CDPAP to a private corporation (when CDPAP has VERY low incidence of fraud).
Hochul should be defending home care & Medicaid, but she's working hand-in-hand w Republicans to destroy it.
Hochul should be defending home care & Medicaid, but she's working hand-in-hand w Republicans to destroy it.
🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.”
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...
Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...
February 27, 2025 at 1:00 AM
So-called "waste, fraud, & abuse" is also @govkathyhochul.bsky.social's excuse for selling out Medicaid program CDPAP to a private corporation (when CDPAP has VERY low incidence of fraud).
Hochul should be defending home care & Medicaid, but she's working hand-in-hand w Republicans to destroy it.
Hochul should be defending home care & Medicaid, but she's working hand-in-hand w Republicans to destroy it.
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🚨🚨🚨“Thousands of disabled New Yorkers could be forced into hospitals and nursing homes as
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social’s…overhaul of the Empire State’s $9 billion home care falters.” @nysdoh.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/02/27/u...
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social’s…overhaul of the Empire State’s $9 billion home care falters.” @nysdoh.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/02/27/u...
Exclusive | Thousands of disabled NYers may be forced into hospitals, nursing homes as Hochul’s pro-union home care overhaul falters
In a damning letter sent to the state Department of Health, the New York Health Plan Association and other groups say that Hochul’s move to consolidate hundreds of middlemen in the CDPAP, is way be…
nypost.com
February 27, 2025 at 6:52 PM
🚨🚨🚨“Thousands of disabled New Yorkers could be forced into hospitals and nursing homes as
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social’s…overhaul of the Empire State’s $9 billion home care falters.” @nysdoh.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/02/27/u...
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social’s…overhaul of the Empire State’s $9 billion home care falters.” @nysdoh.bsky.social
nypost.com/2025/02/27/u...
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🚨DAY OF ACTION TO PROTECT MEDICAID! This week, House GOP will vote on a budget package that could cut at least $880B from Medicaid.
Please take <2 mins to email your Reps so they know we won't accept any cuts to #Medicaid!
go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-pr...
@caringacrossgen.bsky.social
Please take <2 mins to email your Reps so they know we won't accept any cuts to #Medicaid!
go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-pr...
@caringacrossgen.bsky.social
No Cuts, No Concessions: Protect Medicaid!
go.caringacross.org
February 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
🚨DAY OF ACTION TO PROTECT MEDICAID! This week, House GOP will vote on a budget package that could cut at least $880B from Medicaid.
Please take <2 mins to email your Reps so they know we won't accept any cuts to #Medicaid!
go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-pr...
@caringacrossgen.bsky.social
Please take <2 mins to email your Reps so they know we won't accept any cuts to #Medicaid!
go.caringacross.org/a/no-cuts-pr...
@caringacrossgen.bsky.social
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@caringmrising.bsky.social The Health Commissioner just said the average phone call to PPL is 18 minutes. That's not real consumers' experience. Feel free to share this new video through networks.
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The Reality of PPL’s Home Care Transition: A Call That Says It All
This is what happened when one consumer called PPL’s transition hotline. The call lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes. It did not go well. This is PPL’s…
vimeo.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:57 PM
@caringmrising.bsky.social The Health Commissioner just said the average phone call to PPL is 18 minutes. That's not real consumers' experience. Feel free to share this new video through networks.
vimeo.com/1055572239?s...
vimeo.com/1055572239?s...
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@nysdoh.bsky.social Medicaid Director just flatly stated in response to @harveyepstein.bsky.social that "nobody will lose their services."
A seeming promise. That definitely will not come back to bite him.
A seeming promise. That definitely will not come back to bite him.
February 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@nysdoh.bsky.social Medicaid Director just flatly stated in response to @harveyepstein.bsky.social that "nobody will lose their services."
A seeming promise. That definitely will not come back to bite him.
A seeming promise. That definitely will not come back to bite him.
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Has everyone seen this investigative article by Caring Majority leader, Michael Solow, on the transition of New York's CDPAP program to private-equity-backed corporation, PPL?
It's one of the best overviews of the situation—how it came about and the problems with PPL.
bit.ly/HomeCareGambit
It's one of the best overviews of the situation—how it came about and the problems with PPL.
bit.ly/HomeCareGambit
‘They’d Rather We Be Dead’: New York’s Home Health Care Gambit
The state's plan for corporate control of home health care is chaotic, dangerous and a scandal in the making.
bit.ly
February 10, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Has everyone seen this investigative article by Caring Majority leader, Michael Solow, on the transition of New York's CDPAP program to private-equity-backed corporation, PPL?
It's one of the best overviews of the situation—how it came about and the problems with PPL.
bit.ly/HomeCareGambit
It's one of the best overviews of the situation—how it came about and the problems with PPL.
bit.ly/HomeCareGambit
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What happens when @govkathyhochul.bsky.social & her @nysdoh.bsky.social Commish insistence on cruel and ill-fated changes to home care's #CDPAP result in at least 80,000 people losing services?
www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...
www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...
'The math isn't mathing': Changes to home health care program faces criticism
The state wants to have about 280,000 customers enrolled in the Medicaid-run home health care program for the disabled and elderly to all use the same fiscal intermediary by April 1. Advocates call th...
www.wxxinews.org
February 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
What happens when @govkathyhochul.bsky.social & her @nysdoh.bsky.social Commish insistence on cruel and ill-fated changes to home care's #CDPAP result in at least 80,000 people losing services?
www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...
www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...
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NY Legislators are at home in their districts. But budget work is still happening and the travesty that is PPL is still moving forward. Call them in their district offices this week to #StopPPL. #SaveCDPAP and #ProtectHomeCare
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February 18, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NY Legislators are at home in their districts. But budget work is still happening and the travesty that is PPL is still moving forward. Call them in their district offices this week to #StopPPL. #SaveCDPAP and #ProtectHomeCare
www.votervoice.net/CDPAANYS/Cam...
www.votervoice.net/CDPAANYS/Cam...
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.@govkathyhochul.bsky.social & @nysdoh.bsky.social ask us to entrust PPL with our home care & jobs when they have a 1.39/5 STAR CUSTOMER RATING with Better Business Bureau.
PPL has an ABYSMAL track record. This handover of CDPAP to PPL amidst fed. attacks to #Medicaid is an injustice.
PPL has an ABYSMAL track record. This handover of CDPAP to PPL amidst fed. attacks to #Medicaid is an injustice.
February 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
.@govkathyhochul.bsky.social & @nysdoh.bsky.social ask us to entrust PPL with our home care & jobs when they have a 1.39/5 STAR CUSTOMER RATING with Better Business Bureau.
PPL has an ABYSMAL track record. This handover of CDPAP to PPL amidst fed. attacks to #Medicaid is an injustice.
PPL has an ABYSMAL track record. This handover of CDPAP to PPL amidst fed. attacks to #Medicaid is an injustice.
"Half the world is crazy and the other half is scared
Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaires
The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moon
It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soon"
Tape From California, Phil Ochs
Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaires
The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moon
It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soon"
Tape From California, Phil Ochs
February 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
"Half the world is crazy and the other half is scared
Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaires
The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moon
It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soon"
Tape From California, Phil Ochs
Maddonas do the minuet for the naked millionaires
The anarchists are rising while we're racing for the moon
It doesn't take a seer to see that the scene is coming soon"
Tape From California, Phil Ochs
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REMINDER: The fight for #Section504 didn’t start in a courtroom and it won’t end in one. In 1977, #Disabled folks put their bodies on the line to secure #EqualAccess to #PublicSpaces. Now, 17 states want to turn back time. Not on our watch. #Disability
#History #StopTheRollback
dredf.org/protect-504
#History #StopTheRollback
dredf.org/protect-504
Texas v. Becerra: What it is and How You Can Help Stop the Attack on Section 504 - DREDF
Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund
dredf.org
February 11, 2025 at 2:39 AM
REMINDER: The fight for #Section504 didn’t start in a courtroom and it won’t end in one. In 1977, #Disabled folks put their bodies on the line to secure #EqualAccess to #PublicSpaces. Now, 17 states want to turn back time. Not on our watch. #Disability
#History #StopTheRollback
dredf.org/protect-504
#History #StopTheRollback
dredf.org/protect-504
Great game!
But no #M&Ms commercial and no kissing the #LombardiTrophy?
@superbowllix.bsky.social @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social
But no #M&Ms commercial and no kissing the #LombardiTrophy?
@superbowllix.bsky.social @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Great game!
But no #M&Ms commercial and no kissing the #LombardiTrophy?
@superbowllix.bsky.social @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social
But no #M&Ms commercial and no kissing the #LombardiTrophy?
@superbowllix.bsky.social @philadelphiaeagles.bsky.social
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And people with disabilities.
He's not blaming DEI, he's blaming women and non white people.
January 30, 2025 at 6:31 PM
And people with disabilities.
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No, the FAA did not recruit people with intellectual disabilities to work as air traffic controllers. Despite what the President said about anti-discrimination programs. My story @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
People with intellectual disabilities do lots of jobs–but they don't direct air traffic
After the fatal crash over the Potomac River, the President says diversity hiring has made the skies unsafe, but that's not how disability hiring works
www.npr.org
January 31, 2025 at 2:33 AM
No, the FAA did not recruit people with intellectual disabilities to work as air traffic controllers. Despite what the President said about anti-discrimination programs. My story @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/01/30/n...
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Thank you to @washingtonpost.com for the opportunity to be clear that disability laws address discrimination and barriers to employment for disabled people (of which there are so many); unqualified people are not being hired because disability laws. #Disability #Employment
wapo.st/3PYbovR
wapo.st/3PYbovR
Disability advocates fear backlash, discrimination after Trump’s FAA comments
Veterans’ groups and advocates for those with disabilities have issued scathing criticisms of the president’s baseless comments about the reasons behind the fatal plane crash last week.
wapo.st
February 2, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Thank you to @washingtonpost.com for the opportunity to be clear that disability laws address discrimination and barriers to employment for disabled people (of which there are so many); unqualified people are not being hired because disability laws. #Disability #Employment
wapo.st/3PYbovR
wapo.st/3PYbovR
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To be clear and this is not an overstatement: Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education will be absolutely devastating for students with disabilities.
February 4, 2025 at 2:03 AM
To be clear and this is not an overstatement: Dismantling the U.S. Department of Education will be absolutely devastating for students with disabilities.
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Stop cuts to Medicaid. Cutting Medicaid would put millions of people at risk of going into medical debt. Medicaid is our lifeline! #handsoffmedicaid #savemedicaid
February 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Stop cuts to Medicaid. Cutting Medicaid would put millions of people at risk of going into medical debt. Medicaid is our lifeline! #handsoffmedicaid #savemedicaid
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We’re baaack!! Join us at CDPAP Water Cooler Hour Tuesday-Thursday @ 7p 💧
RSVP for Zoom link: actionnetwork.org/forms/cdpap-...
RSVP for Zoom link: actionnetwork.org/forms/cdpap-...
CDPAP Water Cooler Hour!
Hop on Tues, Wed, Thurs this week at 7PM to learn the latest on the PPL transition, ask questions, share information and build community! RSVP for the ZOOM link!
actionnetwork.org
February 5, 2025 at 2:13 AM
We’re baaack!! Join us at CDPAP Water Cooler Hour Tuesday-Thursday @ 7p 💧
RSVP for Zoom link: actionnetwork.org/forms/cdpap-...
RSVP for Zoom link: actionnetwork.org/forms/cdpap-...
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📺 ⭐️ We’re making waves & spreading the word: “Our Home Care Is NOT A Game” ⭐️📺
Thanks to the many elected officials—including @ronkim.bsky.social depicted here—who joined us on Monday to support our demand to STOP the handover of CDPAP to private-equity corporation, PPL
@wnyt.bsky.social
Thanks to the many elected officials—including @ronkim.bsky.social depicted here—who joined us on Monday to support our demand to STOP the handover of CDPAP to private-equity corporation, PPL
@wnyt.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 7:21 PM
📺 ⭐️ We’re making waves & spreading the word: “Our Home Care Is NOT A Game” ⭐️📺
Thanks to the many elected officials—including @ronkim.bsky.social depicted here—who joined us on Monday to support our demand to STOP the handover of CDPAP to private-equity corporation, PPL
@wnyt.bsky.social
Thanks to the many elected officials—including @ronkim.bsky.social depicted here—who joined us on Monday to support our demand to STOP the handover of CDPAP to private-equity corporation, PPL
@wnyt.bsky.social
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News coming out of Oklahoma - they want to change IEP services that are provided under the education department to medically necessary services provided under health insurance. They would be able to easily deny and restrict services which would be a huge deterrent to children with disabilities
February 3, 2025 at 12:47 PM
News coming out of Oklahoma - they want to change IEP services that are provided under the education department to medically necessary services provided under health insurance. They would be able to easily deny and restrict services which would be a huge deterrent to children with disabilities