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Health policy nerd. Data geek. Union member and supporter. California baby.
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Health Access California
29 days ago
The skyrocketing cost of
#ACA
marketplace health care premiums are at the center of the
#GovernmentShutdown
. Are your
@coveredca.bsky.social
costs rising in 2026? ❤️‍🩹 Tell us your story NOW:
secure.everyaction.com/SDZFaMRQjEG1...
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Health Access California
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We’re at the annual Health Care conference hosted by
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@jodihicks.bsky.social
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,
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of
@ucblaborcenter.bsky.social
, & more to discuss the devastating impact of H.R. 1 on our health care access.
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UC Berkeley Labor Center
3 months ago
Come hear Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Gates talk about fearless organizing. This should be insightful and inspiring!
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Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates speaking on unapologetically bold worker and community organizing
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates will offer her reflections on how decades of unapologetically bold worker and community organizing in Chicago have led to a unique moment of possibil...
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/stacy-davis-gates/
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Covered California premiums (what folks pay after subsidies) will DOUBLE on average for 2026–unless the feds extend the enhanced tax credits that folks have access to today. Some folks will go uninsured and even those who stay covered will be spending twice what they are now.
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Sarah Lawton
4 months ago
64% of Valadao’s constituents enrolled in Medicaid and, staggeringly, almost 90% of children in his district:
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/medi-cal-enr...
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#CA22
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
4 months ago
Congratulations to Laurel Lucia, a 15-year Labor Center veteran, who completed her first day as deputy executive director of programs!
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/laurel-lucia...
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Laurel Lucia Promoted to be the Labor Center’s First Deputy Executive Director of Programs - UC Berkeley Labor Center
Laurel Lucia transitions from her position as the director of the Labor Center’s Health Care Program to the new role of deputy executive director of programs.
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/laurel-lucia-promoted-to-be-the-labor-centers-first-deputy-executive-director-of-programs/
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Jen Taub
4 months ago
Dachau in July 1933... reported in the New York Times
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KFF
4 months ago
⚡ KFF’s
@cynthiaccox.bsky.social
explains how millions of people are expected to lose health insurance coverage over the next decade with cuts to Medicaid and the ACA in the reconciliation bill, as well as other ACA changes not in the bill.
#QuickTake
on.kff.org/3GrJ9V5
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Edwin Park
5 months ago
Scott amendment eliminating 90% matching rate for
#Medicaid
expansion is being described as just about changing federal financing. It's effectively repeal! Amendment language is nearly identical to that in a section labeled "Repeal of Medicaid Expansion" in the 2017 House-passed ACA repeal bill!
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Edwin Park
5 months ago
To give sense of how much harsher Senate bill's
#Medicaid
cuts are than House-passed bill's draconian cuts, new CBO scores show Senate has $1.02T/10 yrs in gross Medicaid/CHIP cuts (before interactions) compared to House bill's $863.4B in gross cuts (before interactions).
www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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San Francisco Chronicle
5 months ago
Protesters formed a human banner at Ocean Beach during the "No Kings" protests in San Francisco on Saturday. The protest is among nationwide demonstrations against President Donald Trump. 📸: Santiago Mejia
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Boston Public Health Commission
5 months ago
A person with measles visited Boston. We're working with local partners to notify those who may have been exposed to measles. Unvaccinated individuals who have been exposed should contact their healthcare provider immediately. Learn more at
boston.gov/measles
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reposted by
Anthony Wright
6 months ago
My
@familiesusa.bsky.social
statement on the horrible House vote to make massive cuts to Medicaid, Medicare, and the ACA, forcing millions off coverage and raising costs for millions more in both public and private plans.
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Christen Linke Young
6 months ago
Latest House bill text includes another blow to the ACA, ending “silver loading.” That would increase premiums by $350 for a hypothetical family. Here’s why:
www.brookings.edu/articles/und...
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Understanding Marketplace "Silver Loading"
Christen Linke Young explains a new proposal regarding cost-sharing reductions and how it could impact families who get coverage through the ACA.
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/understanding-marketplace-silver-loading/
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
6 months ago
New brief: California’s historic expansion of health coverage to undocumented individuals is at risk due to a new state budget proposal that would curtail Medi-Cal benefits for certain immigrants, including some with legal status. What are the consequences?
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/comprehensiv...
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The Importance of Comprehensive Health Benefits for All Low-Income Californians - UC Berkeley Labor Center
California’s historic expansion of coverage to undocumented individuals has not only brought the state closer to universal coverage, but has also reduced racial disparities in health coverage. However...
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/comprehensive-health-benefits-for-all-low-income-californians/
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Gaaaaaah!!!!
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6 months ago
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Bad Health Policy Proposals, CA edition: California's May Revise budget proposes benefit cuts and premiums of $100 per month (!) for 2m Ca immigrant Medi-Cal enrollees, & a freeze on new enrollment for undoc adults. Result: 1m more uninsured
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The Importance of Comprehensive Health Benefits for All Low-Income Californians - UC Berkeley Labor Center
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/comprehensive-health-benefits-for-all-low-income-californians/
6 months ago
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Edwin Park
6 months ago
Thread. 33 of 40
#Medicaid
expansion states (+DC) will now face a 10 point cut in their expansion match rate under House GOP reconciliation bill. Latest language penalizes not only states using own funds to cover undocumented kids but also states covering legal immigrant kids/pregnant women (1/x)
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Anthony Wright
6 months ago
The
#OneBigBeautifulBill
with the biggest cut to
#Medicaid
in history: * Bill introed Sun 10pm * Bill debated in E&C Committee starting at Wed 1am * Bill passed Budget Committee Sun 10pm * Bill scheduled in Rules Committee Wed 1am They're rushing this, after dark, without hearings, for a reason.
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
6 months ago
Congress is currently considering major cuts to Medicaid, called Medi-Cal in California. Our researchers have analyzed the potential impacts of the cuts to CA and the importance of Medi-Cal to our state. View this work here:
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/labor-center...
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Labor Center Research on the Impacts of Federal Medicaid Cuts on California - UC Berkeley Labor Center
UC Berkeley Labor Center researchers Miranda Dietz, Laurel Lucia, Alexis Manzanilla, and Nari Rhee have analyzed the potential impacts of Medicaid cuts on California and the importance of the Medi-Cal...
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/labor-center-research-on-the-impacts-of-federal-medicaid-cuts-on-california/
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Edwin Park
6 months ago
After 26.5 hour markup, House Energy and Commerce Committee reports out budget reconciliation bill including $625 billion in draconian
#Medicaid
cuts that would cut Medicaid enrollment by 10.3 million and increase the number of uninsured by 7.6 million.
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
6 months ago
🚨HIT THE PHONES TO SAVE MEDICAID - PLEASE AMPLIFY & ACT 🚨 TODAY the House will be marking up deeply unpopular massive Medicaid cuts. MANY GOP on the committee are in tight districts. Calls and pressure ARE effective here. Call today. Type your zip to get a script ⬇️
OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Save Medicaid
Please call your Representative right now and leave a voicemail, or first thing on Monday morning before the mark up session begins.
https://OcasioCortez.com/savemedicaid
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Kayla B
6 months ago
My daughter’s speech therapist went out of business because Medicaid reimbursement rates were too low. We do not have Medicaid. I’m going to keep posting this until people understand that when Medicaid gets cut *everyone* loses services.
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Anthony Wright
6 months ago
It's nuts that this GOP
#Budget
proposal, dropped after dark late on Mother's Day, is going to be voted on in a committee starting just 40 hours later, and is not going to have a single hearing on any of the provisions that its backers admit are big and consequential..
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Sarah Lueck
6 months ago
Medicaid cuts in the House E & C Cmte bill would take health coverage away from millions by slashing hundreds of billions of dollars in federal funds. Loss of coverage means diseases go untreated & families face exorbitant medical debt.đź§µ
energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chairm...
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Bobby Kogan
6 months ago
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)
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
6 months ago
TODAY! 5/7 @ UCB—Jaz Brisack in conversation w/Robert Reich. Brisak cofounded Starbucks Workers United & will discuss their new book about organizing at companies from Nissan to Starbucks to Tesla to Ben & Jerry’s.
@rbreich.bsky.social
@jazbrisack.bsky.social
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Jaz Brisack in conversation with Robert Reich: "Get on the Job and Organize" - UC Berkeley Labor Center
Jaz Brisack, a co-founder of Starbucks Workers United, will discuss how workers can take action to unionize their own workplaces.Jaz Brisack in conversation with Robert Reich. Brisack is co-founder of...
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/event/book-talk-get-on-the-job-and-organize-standing-up-for-a-better-workplace-and-a-better-world/
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6 months ago
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
6 months ago
Next week! May 7, 5:30: Jaz Brisack in conversation w/ Robert Reich. Brisack is cofounder of Starbucks Workers United and will discuss their new book about organizing at companies from Nissan to Starbucks to Tesla to Ben & Jerry’s.
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/jaz-brisack-...
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Jaz Brisack in conversation with Robert Reich: "Get on the Job and Organize" - UC Berkeley Labor Center
Jaz Brisack, a co-founder of Starbucks Workers United, will discuss how workers can take action to unionize their own workplaces.Jaz Brisack in conversation with Robert Reich. Brisack is co-founder of...
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/jaz-brisack-in-conversation-w-robert-reich-get-on-the-job-and-organize
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reposted by
Larry Levitt
8 months ago
This Reddit thread of people being laid off from HHS paints a picture of how the federal government's work on health will be curtailed. h/t:
@samsteindc.bsky.social
www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/co...
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RIF notices
https://www.reddit.com/r/DeptHHS/comments/1jo4emu/rif_notices/
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Timothy Snyder
8 months ago
With the
#Signalgate
scandal, we see our government openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights. I explain here:
snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate...
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Signalgate: violating national security
in order to violate rights
https://snyder.substack.com/p/signalgate-violating-national-security
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
8 months ago
Research shows Medicaid work requirements are a bad idea. More than 8 million Californians could be affected.
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/eight-millio...
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Eight Million Medi-Cal Enrollees at Risk of Losing Health Coverage If Congress Imposes Work Requirements - UC Berkeley Labor Center
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/eight-million-medi-cal-enrollees-at-risk-of-losing-health-coverage-if-congress-imposes-work-requirements/
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reposted by
Aaron Sojourner
8 months ago
Shot / Chaser
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reposted by
UC Berkeley Labor Center
8 months ago
In the last 20 years health insurance premiums have gone up faster than wages, and rising hospital prices are largely to blame, according to
@mirandadz.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/business/sto...
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Thought inflation was bad? Health insurance premiums are rising even faster
Californians are struggling to keep up with health insurance premiums ballooning faster than inflation.
https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-03-10/kaiser-health-insurance
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reposted by
Kate Gace Walton
9 months ago
More and more, I'm having a hard time hearing "Waste, Fraud, and Abuse" as anything but their nicknames.
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reposted by
Yuliya Komska
9 months ago
Do a mitzvah and help spread the news of this local Vermont protest intended to make J D Vance’s lovely ski vacation less lovely first thing tomorrow morning
www.waterburyroundabout.org/opinion-arch...
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LETTER: Demonstration organizers share details ahead of vice president’s visit — Waterbury Roundabout
To the Community: Protest the destructive and illegal actions of the Trump/Vance administration in Waitsfield, Vermont.
https://www.waterburyroundabout.org/opinion-archive/nz0q81w6qt8g190wn1zp525npcl2hc
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UC Berkeley Labor Center
9 months ago
Find out about Medi-Cal rates in other California districts with our recently updated numbers.
@mirandadz.bsky.social
@laurellucia.bsky.social
laborcenter.berkeley.edu/medi-cal-enr...
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Medi-Cal Enrollment and Spending by District and County 2024 - UC Berkeley Labor Center
This page provides estimates of the number of individuals and percentage of population enrolled in Medi-Cal by county, congressional district, assembly district, and senate district, as of June 2024.
https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/medi-cal-enrollment-by-district-and-county-2024/
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reposted by
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
9 months ago
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote. There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
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reposted by
mtsw
9 months ago
THEY ARE DEFUNDING MEDICAID AND BUYING CYBERTRUCKS WITH THE MONEY. Dems stop saying "uh he promised he would lower the cost of living" and take the layup
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Will Stancil
9 months ago
Just got a tip from a guy at the FAA. You'll never believe who is still getting new government contracts while all the contracts at the Department of Education and USAID and other agencies are being nuked from orbit.
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As well as deep sadness and fear I feel a powerful rage. When’s the next protest.
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9 months ago
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reposted by
UAW 4811
9 months ago
Tonight, over 700 academic workers from across the country gathered to discuss Trump’s attempts to cut NIH funding. Next Wednesday, February 19, we’re taking action to stop them. Find out how to join here:
www.labor4highered.org
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Labor for Higher Education
https://www.labor4highered.org/
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reposted by
Matthew Cortland (they)
9 months ago
Webinar FOR CLINICIANS on how to advocate for Medicaid with the legislative staff of a Member of Congress or U.S. Senator, Saturday, February 15th, at 4PM ET MAGA and MAHA are planning massive cuts to Medicaid that would result in catastrophic coverage loss
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2/15 at 4PM ET: Congressional Medicaid Advocacy Webinar For Clinicians | Matthew Cortland
Get more from Matthew Cortland on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/121824872?utm_campaign=postshare_creator
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Cathy W
9 months ago
"would you please put that in writing" is how you pull off insubordination without actually being insubordinate. Very useful when you are getting sketchy (whatever 'sketchy' might mean) instructions from someone who might not want to take responsibility for it later. signed, a former union steward.
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Kim Kelly
9 months ago
NEWS: Sources tell me that DOGE is setting its sights on the Department of Labor next. DOL workers have been ordered to give DOGE access to whatever they ask for—or risk termination. “We’re supposed to stop everything we’re doing and do whatever the DOGE kids ask… It feels dirty and illegal.”
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Kai Ryssdal
9 months ago
If this happens - and if Musk et al get control of BLS - then all economic bets are off. I can’t say it any more plainly than that.
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April Verrett
9 months ago
SEIU is proud to stand with our allies against giving billionaires access to the private data of millions of Americans, including thousands of
@seiu.org
members who perform essential services for the federal government.
@publiccitizen.bsky.social
www.citizen.org/news/advocac...
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Advocacy Group, Unions Sue Treasury Department Over Illegal DOGE Data Access - Public Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Represented by Public Citizen Litigation Group and State Democracy Defenders Fund, the Alliance for Retired Americans, the…
https://www.citizen.org/news/advocacy-group-unions-sue-treasury-department-over-illegal-doge-data-access/
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