Whistleblowers who say they work in the Texas Health and Human Services Commission are alleging some of the more than 900,000 people kicked off Medicaid were because of departmental mismanagement.

Since pandemic-era protections for health care coverage ended in March, more than 900,000 Texans have lost Medicaid coverage.

For the first time in three years, many families and kids are caught up in the state’s re-enrollment process, a multi-step system of complex paperwork, deadlines and financial requirements.

Now, whistleblowers who say they work in the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) are alleging people have been denied coverage in error because of mismanagement within the agency.

  • Zombiepirate@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1551·
    1 year ago

    My best friend has a young daughter with a genetic disability that will dramatically affect her for her entire life. She had a stroke a few months ago that scared the whole family, thinking there would be more complications to her condition. Furthermore, my friend works part-time and her husband works full-time so that she can be there for her daughter and help her grow up.

    Texas Medicaid kicked her off during this round of purges, and my friend has spent countless hours trying to get her daughter reinstated (one person from TXMED finally said it was a data-entry error that caused the loss in coverage).

    Fuck Republicans and everyone who voted for them. Society is about caring for the most vulnerable, and they’ve broken the social contact.

    • Unaware7013@kbin.social
      512·
      1 year ago

      Are Republicans pro-anything that isn’t cruelty? Seems that’s the primary product of their legislative agendas.

      • agent_flounder@lemmy.oneEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        They’re pro-rich, pro-white, pro-christian, pro-capitalist, pro-oligarchy, pro-oligopoly, and pro-authoritarian.

        They believe in a hierarchy based on class, race, genetics, health, sexual orientation, gender and gender expression, conformity, etc.

        They believe this hierarchy must be strictly enforced and they act accordingly.

        People with this world view don’t believe in equal treatment under the law or anything else. They vehemently oppose egalitarianism.

        They want people lower on their made up hierarchy to have less, to suffer and to die.

      • just_change_it@lemmy.world
        8·
        1 year ago

        They’re pro-power. They want to be the ones getting the kickback from policy decisions since whenever you change policy there are winners and losers - and the ones who bet on your side tend to win (because then they make you win in other ways. Big roles for your family, giant donations to keep you in office, business deals with your family so you get more income.)

        They use:

        • Christian Guilt (#1 - “Pro Life”, WORK your life away because it’s what you’re supposed to do/REPORT YOUR NEIGHBORS FOR NOT LIVING A GOOD CHRISTIAN LIFE)
        • Fear (#2 - anti-vax/conspiracy shit/racism/“guns protect people”/“strong militaries save lives”/Anti-LGBTQ/‘THEY’RE COMIN’ FOR YER GUNS) and
        • Hatred (#3 - OTHERING: racism/we’re better than them/don’t work with the other side they’re the enemy!/The LGBTQ are gonna rape your kids!)

        Fear and hatred are extremely powerful motivating forces and Christian guilt rolls into all of it. Presidents and most politicians can’t get elected without being publicly Christian, especially in conservative majority districts. I’m atheist myself, so forgive my improper categorization of denomination, but everybody knows what I mean.

        The platform is not the same as the objective. The objective is to gain personal wealth and power and build a dynasty for your family. Helping your wealthier buddies out gets you a bigger share. There are certainly people who intend to get into politics without these opinions and attitudes but it’s far from the majority.

  • TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee
    852·
    1 year ago

    This is what you voted (or more importantly DIDNT vote) for, Texas.

    Way to own the libs, yo.

    And Greg Abbott is a piss baby.

    • qooqie@lemmy.world
      241·
      1 year ago

      Somehow, deep down, all these Texans just know it’s the damn liberals fault for this /s

    • SuiXi3D@kbin.social
      7·
      1 year ago

      Certainly wasn’t what I voted for, but I’m in Austin so my voting blue doesn’t really count for much.

  • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
    721·
    1 year ago

    It’s not mismanagement if the explicit, if secretive, goal is to simply remove as many users of the service as possible, knowing most of them don’t easily have the means to fight back.

    Very much by design, and deeply evil to boot.

    • Son_of_dad@lemmy.world
      25·
      1 year ago

      Uvalde county overwhelmingly re elected Abbott and the GOP, even after their children were slaughtered and these people did nothing, they voted them back in. After a while you lose your sympathy for these people and realize they’re morons voting for their own destruction

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1416·
    1 year ago

    Honestly, as unfortunate as this is, I kinda do view this as a “fuck around/find out” dynamic. Constituents didn’t vote, or voted against their own interests, and this is the government it yielded. Maybe change your elected government if you don’t like that it’s actively hurting you.