Heather Cox Richardson
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7,479 appearances
87 recordings
10 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard 4d ago
Heather Cox Richardson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were unsuccessful and as they warned, without the subsidies, people dropped their health insurance.
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A report from the Department of Health and Human Services in late June twenty twenty six showed that at least five million people lost health insurance in the first six months of the year, a drop of about thirteen percent.
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For those remaining, premiums have spiked.
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The editorial board notes that a middle income, middle aged couple with two children could pay an additional thirty five hundred dollars a year, more than doubling their premium from before the cuts.
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Deductibles also jumped this year by about $1,000 a person as people chose cheaper policies that offered less coverage.
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Democrats shut down the government also because they wanted to restore the cuts of about a trillion dollars over the next ten years Republicans had made in funding for Medicaid.
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In their budget reconciliation bill, Republicans placed what they called a work requirement on enrollees, requiring them to prove they have a job or a valid exemption.
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But as the editorial board notes, the work requirement is really a paperwork requirement that will throw people eligible for the program off it because they have not filed the right paperwork.
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As the board reports, Elizabeth Zhang and Gideon Lucas of the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities estimated that about two of the three people who will lose Medicaid because of the new requirement are legally entitled to it.
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They estimated that up to fifteen million people are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage.
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That, in turn, will force hospitals, especially rural hospitals, to cut back services or close.
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Although still legally required to provide services to everyone, they will not be reimbursed for the cost of such care and will drop labor and delivery services, for example.
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Those closures will not just mean poorer health care, they will mean lost jobs.
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As the New York Times editorial board noted, Republicans deliberately put off the implementation of most of the Medicaid cuts until after the twenty twenty six midterms.
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New York Times reader KAM from Marin County, California, noted in a comment on the story that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant defines onerous paperwork differently than Republicans in Congress.
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Bessant recently announced the Treasury will no longer require shell companies to disclose even the name, address, and identification of people who own an interest of more than twenty five percent or who exercise significant control over the company, as Congress required in the twenty twenty one Corporate Transparency Act.
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Congress designed the law to combat money laundering, but Bessent says the paperwork puts an undue burden on businesses.
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In eighteen eighty-three, sociologist William Graham Sumner published What the Social Classes Owe to Each Other, concluding that the answer was nothing.
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In a time when unregulated industrialization was making fortunes on the one hand and driving down wages on the other, creating extremes of rich and poor, Sumner turned on its head the traditional idea that the economy of the United States would provide a living to any man who worked hard.
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Instead, Sumner argued that anyone who did not succeed in the United States must be negligent, shiftless, inefficient, silly, and imprudent.
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