Excellent, lucid explainer on the—very much in flux—state of gender-affirming care as an essential health benefit in ACA plans from [@gracesdeng.bsky.social](
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A federal health agency already passed a rule that could make care more expensive for trans people, but the Big, Beautiful Bill seeks to enshrine it.
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jael holzman (@jael.bsky.social)
yeah confirmed GAC ban outta the bill
The cat avi is making me a worse (better) poster
Except for me, you should let me upload a secret code to get out of Discover (Paul’s way is the right way, I just still want cheats) RE:
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Paul Frazee (@pfrazee.com)
I’d rather we just solve the problem of angry randos in replies
I have been trying to decide whether the "post shit, get hit, whine" arc is more of a flop or a dive but either way it's a lot
I guess I'm saying this obvious thing because I have been in the position of being really sick and not being able to afford care, and then getting halfass care and living under crushing medical debt as a result. This is optional suffering and I fucking loathe it but please hang on. RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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Thread with the good news, the bad news, and the several unknowns about the Medicaid cuts in the reconciliation bill. We're following this process closely—and more importantly, pulling together the work of people who watch it professionally—so that you don't have to. RE:
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Unbreaking (@unbreaking.org)
According to the Congressional Budget Office, the GOP budget reconciliation bill will push ~12M people in the US out of healthcare coverage—a mil...
This is really good. RE:
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Don Moynihan (@donmoyn.bsky.social)
New, from me: They are trying to shove through the massive reconciliation bill as quickly as possible. Stepping back, the bill is: *an assault on ...
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Ron Bronson (@ronbronson.com)
wrote about the bureaucractic banality of andor because I needed to understand what really appealed to me about the stories. https://blog.ronbronso...
I took a webcam photo with current hair so I could use it on Slack and people wouldn't jump when I joined a huddle but I missed my default cat-with-patriotic-I-Vomited-sticker one and reverted. Trying to get used to a non-pink non-fisheye pic but I think the cat may be the universal remedy.