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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · 17d

Facts: If Congress doesn't extend the ACA subsidies, 24 million Americans will see their health care costs skyrocket. app.sosha.ai/s/8eVdJ9Q9

The Associated Press: Millions face skyrocketing health insurance costs unless Congress extends subsidies

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Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network @domesticemployers.bsky.social · Aug 1

The effects this will have on care will be felt amongst paid and unpaid caregivers alike. #CareCantWait #CareNotCuts

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Family caregivers worry over planned Medicaid cuts' impact

About 63 million Americans, or a quarter of adults over 18, take care of an older or disabled person at home, and many rely on Medicaid funding for help.

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jul 28

🚨 NEW: 1 in 4 American adults (63 million) are now family caregivers—20 million MORE than 2015. Our 2025 report with @AARP shows caregiving is more demanding but systems are finally responding. Progress is happening, just not fast enough.
Explore the data: www.caregivingintheus.org #Caregiving

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Kenny Uong @kennyuong.bsky.social · Jul 1

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 24

When your aging parent needs medication, you don't "get over it." When your disabled child needs an aid, you don't "get over it." When you're choosing between rent and medical bills, you don't "get over it" ... we don't get over our need for care. #CareCantWait #ProtectMedicaid

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thread on latest language for the "rural health transformation program" intended to mitigate devastating cuts rural hospitals will face under the reconciliation bill. While the language may still change the program gives even more disturbing discretion to HHS Secretary in awarding the $ (1/x)

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jul 1

After the majority of the Senate voted to strip millions of Americans of healthcare coverage, the Senate chaplain ends the session with a prayer ..."Help them to be servants of the people." The people just got screwed.

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jul 1

July marks Medicaid's 75th birthday! 🎂 75 YEARS of keeping millions of Americans alive and financially stable. Meanwhile, the Senate GOP is literally voting to gut it with the deepest cuts in history. The irony is not lost on us. 💀

Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 30

New rundown of what’s in the OBBB from the @NYT with some editorial from me… spoiler: more 💰for the rich, less for the poor www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 28

Nearly 1/2 of states are on the brink of a caregiving crisis yet policymakers from those very states are about to vote to gut #Medicaid to give massive tax breaks to the ultra rich... who are these people serving?

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 28

So basically he's like "you cannot take away health care from working people but I'm going to vote to taking health care from working people." Make it make sense...

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Jun 28

Hawley is a YES

But: "This has been an unhappy episode here in Congress, this effort to cut Medicaid... Frankly, my party needs to do some soul searching. If you want to be a working-class party, you’ve got to deliver for working-class people. You cannot take away health care from working people."

Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · Jun 28

Senate Republicans release 940-page bill for Trump's agenda as they race to vote this weekend www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 26

Senate Republicans right now...

a woman is standing in front of a flock of birds in a field .

ALT: a woman is standing in front of a flock of birds in a field .

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 25

Bread crumbs that would still leave millions without access to healthcare... #Medicaid

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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · Jun 25

#Medicaid expansion covers many people with disabilities not severe enough/incomes not low enough for SSI. It’s for adults with incomes below 138% of poverty line with most below 100%. And none of the severe Senate cuts gutting expansion are reinvested. They’re going to pay for tax cuts for wealthy.

Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · Jun 25

GRAHAM to me says on Medicaid: “The thing we're trying to address that need, one thing we can't do is punt right?” Says the Obamacare expansion “actually takes money away from the disabled and the poor.” Republicans like Tillis and Hawley are worried about provider taxes hurting hospitals

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 25

“States are not ready or equipped to implement these work requirements, and that’s going to cause even more harm." @nataliekean.bsky.social of @justiceinaging.org laying down the facts on the reconciliation package moving through the senate www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Medicaid

‘People are going to die’: how Medicaid work requirements cost people their health insurance

Those caring for relatives with severe disabilities say planned Republican cuts will be fatal for some

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 24

When your aging parent needs medication, you don't "get over it." When your disabled child needs an aid, you don't "get over it." When you're choosing between rent and medical bills, you don't "get over it" ... we don't get over our need for care. #CareCantWait #ProtectMedicaid

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 23

I teamed up with @govmlg.bsky.social to spotlight the vital role #Medicaid plays in supporting family caregivers. We urge the senate to reject deep cuts to the program. Check out our piece in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/heal... #ProtectMedicaid #CareCantWait #CaregiverNation

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Jun 22

We can’t afford paid leave. We can’t afford elder care. We can’t afford community services. But somehow we always find billions for wars we didn’t ask for. Make it make sense. 🤔

Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Apr 10

Especially on hard days like today, when Congress inches closer to dismantling #Medicaid, it's important to celebrate those who've shown us how to persevere. Happy 95th birthday to my hero Dolores Huerta! Her warmth, humility, & fierce commitment will always inspire me to keep going. Se si puede!

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Mar 27

Our statement on the restructuring of HHS and its potential impact on our nation's 53+ family caregivers. www.caregiving.org/the-national...

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Feb 26

Facts: Representatives Tim Burchett (R-TN) and Victoria Spartz (R-IN) voted to gut #Medicaid while nearly 1 in 5 of Burchett's constituents and 1 in 4 of Spartz's rely on Medicaid for their healthcare....

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Feb 26

What a rough night but grateful to all the advocates who showed up BIG and will continue to show up BIG for Medicaid, SNAP, and the programs working class Americans rely on to make care possible.

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Feb 24

I joined @usatoday.com's The Excerpt to talk about men, caregiving, & the importance of policies like #Medicaid, paid leave, & #Medicare to supporting family caregivers. Listen here: art19.com/shows/5-thin... #caregiving #CareCantWait #CaregiverNation

SPECIAL | More men are becoming family caregivers

With an aging baby boomer population, the demand for family caregivers in the U.S. has never been higher. While traditionally, most family caregiving has fallen to women, men are now increasingly join...

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Feb 19

Check out this powerful ABC News piece following care advocates at the Nat'l Alliance for Caregiving's Caregiver Nation Summit as they champion programs like #Medicaid, Older Americans Act, & #Medicare. It's a powerful reminder of the stakes of today's #Medicaid debate abcnews.go.com/US/invisible...

Invisible crisis: America’s caregivers and the $600 billion unpaid cost of their labor

48 million caregivers in U.S. face emotional, physical and financial struggles.

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Usha Lee McFarling @usha.bsky.social · Feb 13

NEW: VA and NIH join NSF in scouring grants for taboo words like trans and diversity, but also "women" and "Covid." Scientists fear removal of funding is next. By me, with @angusrohan.bsky.social and @owermohle.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/02/13/t...

Growing number of federal health agencies are combing grants for taboo words, unnerving researchers

The National Institutes of Health and some VA regions are scouring existing grants using lists of flagged words, which include not just known trigger

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Jason Resendez @jason4care.bsky.social · Feb 12

Let's be clear: $880 billion in #Medicaid cuts and $230 billion in #SNAP cuts will devastate our nation's crumbling care infrastructure. Family caregiving is hard enough - these cuts will destroy essential support systems.

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