Privatized Medicaid Managed Care: Yet Another Health Policy Disaster
You might think that we learned the lesson of discredited managed care in the 1990s. The term “managed care” is confusing to many, but really amounts to managed reimbursement rather than managed care,...
View ArticleLeft Without
Apparently a mother on Disability and a step-father on Workman's Comp. (he only makes a dollar above minimum wage anyway) make too much for me to keep my Medicaid.
View ArticleNo COLA Increase
I have not seen this written about today but it's just been announced that there will be no COLA increase in 2016. The reason I saw was the low cost of gas.Give me a break the price of gas is...
View ArticleSolve the Social Security Debate
I have a bulletproof argument for raising the cap on wages for Social Security. I have run this argument by some of my nut job Tea Party friends, and even they don't dispute it, and actually agree with...
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Still hoping to be a service dog, but there are issues.
I’d like to thank everyone for their patience. Sally and I have been working very hard. We’ve had our Manners class Tuesday evenings (and we stay for Manners 2, so that Sally gets more exposure to...
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The Continuing Story of Miss Sally Blizzard
Many people here have urged me to keep Sally, regardless of her fitness for service work of any type. You can see it in the comments here and here. I’ve stressed about it a lot. I don’t want to...
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Sally Storm and how she fairs
I apologize for taking so long to write an update. My computer at this point rarely works, and I have a lot of difficulty even loading DKos on my first gen iPad during campaign season, let alone...
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Unlike Mr. Universe, I lack Tech
Hello, I'm LoreleiHI. I feel I may need an introduction because I haven't been here in the comments pretty much every day the way that I used to, and writing diaries about my life first as a homeless...
View ArticleTrump Isn't The Only Republican Picking On The Disabled. Kansas Disability...
It wasn’t surprising to hear Jane Kelly, executive director of the Kansas Home Care Association discuss the problems that face individuals with disabilities in Kansas.www.khi.org/...“Many of our...
View ArticlePoverty is not for Sissies
Poverty also isn’t for lazy people. Poor people generally work a lot harder than the rest of us. The guy who panhandles around the corner from my office building is there from 8-ish to 5-ish every...
View ArticleWhy is the GOP so insistent on starving their core electorate by cutting SSI...
Richard Angwin has the scoop here, for those who would like to know why the GOP is so dead-set on starving the core electorate.twitter.com/...
View ArticleShe's one of many Trump voters who's surprised he wants to cut their aid
These Trump voters represent the bulk of his supporters. CNNMoney interviewed this Trump voter and others before and after his new draconian budget. I think the interviews illustrate two dynamics.Trump...
View ArticleNumber Theory
One of the things that most vividly distinguishes this economic crisis from its predecessors is the kinds of numbers involved in talking about it. For the first time ever, “trillion” is being thrown...
View ArticleResponse to an Anti-Welfare Screed
The Right Wing Nut Job wrote: Welfare dehumanizes people. The phrase 'killing with kindness' describes it perfectly.Democrats like it because broken people whose votes can be purchased with shitty...
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Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s Abuse of Trust: Confiscating Millions from Foster...
Florida Governor Rick Scott’s recently reported misuse of a “blind trust”(To Avoid Conflicts, Rick Scott Created a Trust Blind in Name Only, NY Times) isn’t his first misuse of a trust. Gov. Scott has...
View ArticleDipping my toes back in the water. Poverty, disability, & the government.
I started a series several years ago about moving through the DHHS and SSA system as a queer, disabled, and poor person, at about the same time one of the first demographic studies was done on Daily...
View ArticleChanging Your Name When Indigent and Genderqueer
I can’t remember a time when I haven’t wanted, longed, to change my name. My name has never been my own, I was named for an aunt for died a few years before I was born, and of my copious cousins &...
View ArticleHomelessness is a vulture, that perches in the soul...
I’ve been homeless in several different ways since my TBI in 2010.I technically live in condemned housing, and spend time in a neighbor & friend’s house. I’ve lived in my car.I’ve been without a...
View ArticleSNAP & How It Can Affect Your Life
I’ve been on SNAP/food stamps/food assistance on and off for a good bit of my life. I grew up on paper food stamps, WIC, and government cheese and canned meat, and all the shame that went with those,...
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Accepted by the Shelter After 2 Years
After over two years of waiting, and some legal involvement (which I haven't been allowed to talk about until now), my service dog and I have finally been accepted into a local shelter here in Southern...
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Shelter Life in the U.S.
I’m sitting on my bed in the Shelter, typing this on my iPad because they don’t allow us (or most of the staff) to use the WiFi, so no computer for me. Fun times. This diary isn’t to show how I’m...
View ArticleShelter Life—Bathroom & Communication Discrimination
I had somehow hoped I would manage to go through life without encountering Bathroom discrimination. That hope was dashed here in the Shelter. For a period of about a week, staff got tired of having to...
View ArticleWeirdness at the Shelter
Update!I met with my case manager yesterday, and it seems that I’ve sent enough documentation to Disability Rights Maine that they called him while I was there. What timing!They had had an imperfect...
View ArticleShelter Life—Staked Out at Low Tide
First, the good news: my car simply had a bad oil seal, and was fixed (complete with oil change) for under $100. I was lucky in the transmission issue, and a fuse change fixed it. :) So I’m back with a...
View ArticlePlease excuse this rant ..I just need to rant. Ugh. What a rant.
I do not know if you ever have had to experience the joys of seeking, and then finding, and then living with, a roommate…. but I can tell you from experience it is not fun.I used to live in metro...
View ArticleHomelessness is Waiting
Homeless people get characterized as lazy a lot. It’s a meme. Something you tend to mentally attach to ‘homeless’ without thinking about it, because it’s part of the mental package, right? No...
View ArticleCalFresh (food) benefit replacement for fire & power outage victims in 28...
This past June over 300,000 households of elderly and disabled Californians with Supplemental Security Income (SSI) finally[grocerydive] became eligible also for federal SNAP food assistance,...
View ArticleJulián Castro's 'People First Disability Policy' centers people of color,...
Former Housing Secretary Julián Castro is the latest 2020 hopeful to reveal a campaign proposal centering the needs and rights of people with disabilities. Castro’s plan, which follows California Sen....
View ArticleHappy Update! Transitional Housing
I’ve finally moved into transitional housing. It’s a lovely accessible apartment that was already set up for deafness, with flashy lights everywhere. It has wide doorways and low countertops should I...
View ArticleElizabeth Warren unveils detailed plan protecting the rights of people with...
This morning, Massachusetts Senator and 2020 Democratic Presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren has unveiled her detailed planforprotecting the rights of people with disabilities, including the...
View ArticleWarren's disability plan centers independence, promises to fix rules that...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren released an exciting, thorough plan this past Thursday that promises to support, protect, and uplift people with disabilities. The deep-dive proposal titled “Protecting the Rights...
View ArticleBloomberg campaign gets one thing right: Democrats need to hammer Trump on...
Health care powered the Democratic Party to victory in the 2018 midterms, when we retook the House by picking up 41 seats. Democrats emphasized health care in that campaign, with a full half of all...
View ArticleSSI is not Secure anymore
There’s been a lot of consternation and fear in the disability community about the new measures impacting our lives that the current president is pushing through. There are the measures to hobble the...
View ArticleLiving Within What Your Means Must Be
Being poor, disabled, on public assistance always means a series of trade offs. I don’t know why people worry so much about fraud. You have to give not only all your banking information, but also your...
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Decrease the surplus population, indeed.
I’m so very tired. You’d think I’d be in the cream. The entire world is living like me now, socially distancing, talking mostly online, getting to experience the day-to-day within their house and walls...
View ArticleThe Stimulus & Social Security
How will the Senate Stimulus package affect those on some form of Social Security?This is a concern that directly affects many people from ourselves to parents, grandparents, friends, and other family....
View ArticleSeniors won't have to file tax returns for stimulus check, but some disabled...
The Treasury Department has partially reversed their initial decision to throw up unnecessary bureaucratic hoops for seniors obtaining the $1,200 one-time stimulus payment. Originally the...
View ArticleJust In- SSI, SSDI, etc stimulus payment dates.
Just a quick heads up- this just dropped via Forbes and KWCH.WASHINGTON (FORBES/KWCH) Forbes has released a schedule for when Americans can expect to receive their economic impact checks.On Monday...
View ArticleOur disability system is cruel
I was a professor, working part time for three colleges when I went psychotic in 2010 and was fired from all 3 jobs. I have been in about 14 mental hospitals, with the most recent in November of 2019....
View ArticleSSI cola, same BS AGAIN.
So, I received my SS cola statement today and lo and behold, they did it again.The letter says “Your Social Security benefit will increase by 1.3% in 2021 because of the rise in the cost of living.”...
View ArticleOne thing we don't need to worry about? What low-income people spend their...
No matter the day, month, season, or year, there is one subject that conservatives love to rally over. What is it? How low-income people spend their money. Especially when that money comes in the form...
View ArticleSupreme Court takes up Trump admin. petition punishing Puerto Rico that Biden...
The Supreme has decided to hear an appeal from the Department of Justice that would maintain the exclusion of U.S. citizens in Puerto Rico from receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits....
View ArticleDemocrats Support Changes to SSI Rules
For those of you who don’t get the Good News Roundup, this morning niftywriter included a section about a letter some congressional democrats sent to President Biden and Vice President Harris asking...
View ArticleFinally, some student loan news to celebrate
I am one of the first to admit frustration and disappointment when it comes to student loan relief. We heard from Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren about their sweeping but feasible plans to...
View ArticleSupreme Court denies Puerto Rico residents SSI benefits
Today the Supreme Court blocked an attempt to require certain Social Security benefits to be afforded to Puerto Rico residents.The 8-1 decision ( Justice Sotomayor was the sole dissenting voice)...
View ArticleThis niche disability legislation fixes an absurd bureaucratic pitfall and...
Social safety net programs like Supplemental Security Income allow disabled Americans to live and thrive independently. However, many of these programs have strict rules around work eligibility that...
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Itzl Alert Network: Tuesday, 19th of March, 2024: Ideas for helping the...
I have been hearing about efforts to help the homeless, here in Wichita, Kansas.I started thinking about the topic, and some ideas came to me.I am not an expert of any kind, but as I was thinking about...
View ArticleMusings for Friday - Open Thread for Discussion on Social Security, Medicare,...
If you’re a Social Security recipient, are you scared yet? Yeah, me too.I try not to doom scroll on what Trump, Musk and DOGE might do, but it ain’t easy. The House GOP have jumped in trying to do...
View ArticleIf Social Security Fails, There Will not be Another Republican Led Congress...
The GOP-lead Congress needs to wake up and stop ducking responsibility for the current chaos that has spread across the federal government. Republican Congressmen have been passive and afraid claiming...
View ArticleCONTACT SCOTUS: Lets DOGE rummage through our Social Security data
Chief Justice Roberts Supreme Court of the United States 1 First Street, NE Washington, DC 20543Dear Chief Justice Roberts,I am a citizen writing to express my deep concern regarding the Supreme...
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