Oh right. They only care about them in the womb
The right wants children to suffer. There’s no other way to interpret this:
In letters sent Monday to the governors of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Montana, New Hampshire, Ohio, South Dakota and Texas, HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra urged the states to take up more of the 400 options CMS has offered to ensure coverage. The options include allowing states to use enrollee information they have to auto-renew coverage.
HHS also issued new guidance for states Monday, including an option to give kids an additional 12 months to get on the rolls. That option is available through 2024, CMS Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure told reporters.
Becerra also asked the states to remove barriers to Children’s Health Insurance Program enrollment for children no longer eligible for Medicaid, reduce call center times for families and expand their Medicaid programs if they haven’t already.
“Because all children deserve to have access to comprehensive health coverage, I urge you to ensure that no child in your state who still meets eligibility criteria for Medicaid or CHIP loses their health coverage due to ‘red tape’ or other avoidable reasons as all states ‘unwind’ from the Medicaid continuous enrollment provision that was in place during much of the COVID-19 public health emergency,” Becerra wrote.
According to HHS, the nine states are responsible for 60 percent of children’s coverage losses between March and September.
“State choices matter,” CMS Deputy Administrator Daniel Tsai said Monday. “States that have taken up the historic number of new policy flexibilities that CMS has put on the table are better able to protect kids’ coverage.”
According to new HHS data, the 10 states that haven’t expanded Medicaid — Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Wisconsin, and Wyoming — disenrolled more children than states that have expanded Medicaid combined. That’s partly because expansion states have taken up more CMS flexibilities than non-expansion states.
This is just disgraceful. The same people who are all for forcing women to go into labor and give birth against their will can’t be bothered to cover children with health care, even when they don’t have to pay for it.
The Biden administration is begging states to take the money to ensure that parents can take their kids to the doctor even if they aren’t rich. Begging. And they are being ignored while too many people who should know better are blaming them for failing to get it done.
This makes me see red. Medicaid and the S-CHIP programs are literal life savers for people who don’t have money to afford health insurance through any other means. It’s maddening.
Happy Hollandaise everyone: