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Growth is dead now that no one new can join.

and my air guitar tuned up.

what a clown show. the party of "small government" wanting to be more inefficient and obtuse.

You do realize it's required by law to send them a notice through email, phone, or through post mail that their medicaid will be ending soon, and direct them to a website to update their information, or fill out the forms they get through post mail if they want to do it physically? Yes? Stop fucking trying to find an excuse.

Adding to the frustration of Texans who have lost Medicaid in recent months is that most of them, including Harper, werent actually deemed ineligible for the program. Nearly 1.2 million were removed for procedural reasons, stymied by the red tape of the renewal process. As of last month, this included more than 858,000 kids. In some of these cases, according to Medicaid advocates, families moved and never received the letter informing them that they needed to submit certain income information, or the notification was written in a language they dont read, or they submitted paperwork but it was missing a signature, or they needed assistance renewing their coverage but couldnt get through to HHSC by calling 211.

Terry Anstee, an attorney with Disability Rights Texas, said hes seen situations in which the state determined people no longer qualified for Medicaid under one eligibility criterion and removed them, even though they were eligible under another. Other applicants appeared to have done everything right but were erroneously kicked off anyway.

While other states have relied more heavily on first checking eligibility through readily available data sources, Texas has renewed fewer than 3 percent of Medicaid enrollees this waythe lowest rate in the country.

If anyone actually read the article. Nearly 20 million Americans lost their medicaid, 1.3 million of them being kids, not 1.9. That was the overall, along with adults. But Texas also kept on about 2 million on Medicaid.

Also, they didn't kick them out because, "Fuck them kids", they just didn't renewal.

Chris Fong, CEO of Smile Insurance Group, said the heightened numbers in Texas likely reflect that it's one of the states making it more challenging to qualify, apply or even speak with someone in the Medicaid department.

But in Texas, it's likely the lower-than-average Medicaid income limit for children has led to many getting kicked off in the aftermath of the pandemic-era policy.

Chuds, care to explain how this is supposed to be a good thing?

They're paranoid due to being fed propaganda telling them to be constantly afraid.

Didn't read the article, is this where the parent/guardian didn't re enroll the kid for the new plan year?

It's important to note, however, that a substantial number of those who no longer have Medicaid were removed for procedural reasons. The KFF found that 69 percent of those removed no longer had coverage because they didn't complete the renewal process.

That frequently happens when states no longer have current contact information for the enrollees or if the enrollee doesn't know or understand how to complete the renewal within a set time. In Texas, it accounted for 66 percent of those removed.

Sadly a large percentage of these people likely would not support these actions provided they were actually properly educated on what was going on instead of just taking Fox News at face value.

Are they trying to sabotage themselves?

They were warned this would happen when they started refusing the Medicare expansion out of spite.

Pigs are smart animals as well but people still eat them.

People are weird about which meat they do and do not eat in general

there was likely a lot of work done ahead of time.

Diets are usually made with aspartame, while zeros is made with a different chemical I forget the name of. It's some type of potassium iirc.

Will this be animated or live action/CGI?

Either way, I really enjoyed the OG Last Ronin story, so I'm pumped for this

So it sounds to me like this bill is actually about preserving child marriage, and the TN repubs are trying to include extra stuff to distract from it.

Two cousins procreate and significantly increase the risk of a developmentally stunted fetus.