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Also speculation if the US will blow up the embassy on the way out.

Ugh, today sucks. After living together since May last year, my girlfriend moved out today to start a new job. It's only a 1 year contract (9months really) so me going made no sense. The city is an accessibility hellscape plus I'd lose my Medicaid slot and here have to get on a decade long waiting list there. She's only 6 hours away but with delta, her college not requiring masks or vaccines, and her schedule, could be October or December until I see her again.

Ouch.

US, Fort Bragg sends troops to Kabul to evacuate some embassy staff WWW.WRAL.COM With security rapidly deteriorating in Afghanistan, the United States is sending in an additional 3,000 troops to help evacuate some personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, officials said Thursday. Airborne Brigade from the 82nd is staging in Kuwait and a Marine Expeditionary Unit is off the coast with a Carrier.

Thread on SSI reform

Disability community only got half what we wanted: $400B for Medicaid home care but no SSI Restoration Act which would update the asset limit set in the 70s.

God damnit

Ugh, stop calling it Eldercare. It's funding to eliminate Medicaid HCBS waiting lists which have 800,000+ people on them, mostly people with disabilities. This is actually possible with the Medicaid HCBS component since States would have to accept. The ACA had an HCBS component which only 7 states accepted.

Most of my disabled friends report it's about 50-50 when they fly.

I'm one of them!

Disability community, screwed again.

$56k? That's it? Biogen getting soft. Having gone down the road of rare disease medication twice, the FDA is only the first stop for commercial approval, next is insurance and I'd be surprised if they don't lock this behind a ton of quantitative requirements to show individual improvement or get cut off.

Honestly, if Biden wants to drop the $400 billion for Home Care, that would be okay so long as the the HCBS access act is included. It gets rid of the Medicaid waiting list without putting a price tag on it.

Wouldn't it be up to the executive branch to enforce the Supreme Court ruling? Just as Eisenhower enforced the Little Rock School issue.

Even if you solved the issue in the West Bank, the bigger problem is what do you do with Gaza? It will continue to be an open-air person unless either Egypt or Israel opens the border, neither of which is interested for obvious reasons.

And nothing to unfuck the disability support system, thanks Joe

My county is now taking walk ins to get the vaccine, no eligibility requirements. Supply > demand unfortunately....

Exactly, and it gets worse. I should be on a much better Medicaid waiver program but can't because of the 10 year waiting list. That waiver's neutrality number is $150k, so if I say fuck it and put myself in a nursing home for 90 days "Money Follows the Person" federal program kicks in and I bypass the wait list for the better waiver. Whole thing is so stupid, not only is home care cheaper for government by itself, but because I have a job with benefits, Medicaid isn't on the hook for my $365k a year drug or my $40k wheelchair (except my deductible).

Welp, going to war with Medicaid. My home care renewal is up and because Medicaid paid for part of my new wheelchair, I'm "over cost neutrality" ($51k) meaning the State feels it is cheaper to put me in a nursing home. I'll win (because the cost neutrality number is a joke), but so annoying.

I need details but hell yes. That said, this needs to include a straight up ban on home care waiting lists.

Lots of Paras are pretty stupid to begin with, hence why they break their backs doing hold my beer activities.