Jwheel86

My County Health Department announced a 5-11 clinic on Facebook and people are screaming child abuse in the comments.

Maybe, just maybe these places should be an absolute last resort. Home Care is significantly cheaper and is higher quality.

This fucking guy

Shouldn't the Senate go first since they have to go through the crazy reconciliation process that takes weeks?

Just slept for 11 hours and my thigh hurts, not too bad.

Just got the booster, everyone in my household is now boosted. Finding a clinic that would do it in my thigh was a challenge unfortunately, thankfully my neighbor works at a clinic that could do it and got me in there.

We've got a Democratic Governor, I'm just saying, either Sinema or Manchin could be made irrelevant.....

No. The reconciliation bill needs to become law first.

The only way for Biden to salvage this is to turn the coming disappointment into anger going into the midterms by endorsing someone to primary Sinema for '24.

We're more Tony upset about what Ralphie did to the horse at this point.

The original number was $400b which equaled out to a 10% increase in Federal Matching Funds. Whatever the % ends up being, each State will get a grant to detail out how they'd spend the increase in funds. In order to get the increase, the State's proposal has demonstrate how the money would 1. clear the waiting lists and 2. raise home care worker (which is a major crisis, none of my disabled friends can find PCAs right now). The groups pushing the bill are a coalition of disability advocacy group (such as ADAPT which did those massive protests in the Capitol during the ACA repeal fight) and domestic worker unions. Trying to achieve both objectives with only $150b is impossible and the States, when it comes to HCBS, have really bad habit of declining federal money unless they are absolutely sure it isn't too difficult (hence the grant to come up with the plan) and they won't get fucked, because the nightmare is having to later delete slots that have been assigned. That's why none of the HCBS COVID money went to the waiting lists, since it was all temporary money. $150b would help but some of these waiting lists are 15 years long. In my State the Developmental Disability waiver has 13,000 slots and 15,000 on the waiting list. Each slot costs $135k a year. That's $2b/yr just to clear that one waiver's waiting list (there are 2 others as well).

$150b for eldercare is effectively $0 since there is a real risk the States won't take the money if it is less than $250b. You can't clear the 800k-1.2m people waiting lists with $150b.

Can we just not pay for the bill?

I'm curious where the Eldercare (fucking media) lands. If below $250b and not permanent, the policy might not be functional and States could decline the money.

It's not a new program, it's funding to make an existing program functional, specifically putting a dent in the waiting lists that are 10 to 15 years long! Also, Media, stop calling it Eldercare.

I don't know Chief, maybe arresting the person who took the shoes for theft would solve the issue.

No vaccine mandate, providers can't bill Medicare and Medicaid.

Welp, sounds like people in Texas are no longer Medicare and Medicaid eligible.

How a Vaccine Mandate Could Worsen a Shortage of Home Care Aides - The New York Times WWW.NYTIMES.COM Some 250,000 home health care workers must get the coronavirus vaccine by Friday, but tens of thousands of them have yet to receive it. Fuck them, fire their asses.

Livia and Tony were good, others were pretty bad.