Wrote the damn bill. Fmr: Deputy Health Policy Director, @HELPCmteDems, @SenSanders; @SenateBudget; @USGAO; @ColumbiaMSPH; @ProvidenceCol.✨🏳️🌈
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Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
This is good news for millions of people with chronic illnesses covered by Medicaid.
Judge strikes down Trump admin's definition of 'medically frail' in Medicaid work rules politi.co/4iMsHir
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
“They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.”
KILL SHOT
OBAMA: The president wasn't even mad. About The Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him. But he was very upset about The Cheesecake Factory. He took great umbrage. He said I didn't understand the work of the artisans in the White House.
They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke.
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
Dolores Huerta was one bravest and most enduring champions of labor rights in U.S. history. Her passing is a somber reminder of the work we have yet to do to deliver on the aspirations she called us to.
Sí, se puede.
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
NEW Exclusive: A new, final rule from the Dept. of Labor means that employers will get way more info on how their drug benefit managers are getting paid💰 -- including fees they get from drugmakers.
Critics have long called PBMs opaque.
With @annawmathews: wsj.com/health/healthcare/dr…
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
Republicans slashed Medicaid last year in the One Big Beautiful Bill law, then used the money they saved to pay for tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and yet another illegal forever war. prospect.org/?p=146897
ALT Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks on the Capitol steps
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
New in @PunchbowlNews midday:
Drug companies prepping for dem majority oversight of MFN drug price deals w Trump
“We’re not naive to the fact a Democratic majority will be interested in these deals,” says pharma industry source
Trade secrets "could be a contention point"
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
my deepest darkest kinkiest most fucked up fantasy is that there’s a hospital with all the doctors I need in one spot and they all communicate and are truly invested in me and work together and figure it out and I get better. and its $35
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
@APStylebook is it Dan Sullivans or Dans Sullivan
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
Hospital units dedicated to treating the nation's sickest kids are disappearing nationwide. In the past year alone, hospitals have closed pediatric intensive care units for critically ill kids in Montana, Oregon, and Missouri. Overnight hospital wings for kids have also shuttered in Illinois and California.
cbsnews.com/news/pediatric-i…
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
News: Wyden and Sanders are accusing 10 major health insurers of "colluding" with Trump admin to kick thousands of ppl off ACA coverage
Wyden and Sanders will be chairs of Finance and HELP if Dems win Senate
They wrote oversight letters to the insurers
in @PunchbowlNews AM
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
Is The Cheesecake Factory Really a Restaurant for Regular Americans?
Here’s what the data show
washingtonsun.com/policy/che…
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
This is beyond absurd. Democrats need to pass bills that will demonstrably improve people’s lives and dare Trump to veto it.
.@SenBrianSchatz says that if Democrats take the Senate, the party's left wing needs to be strategic about not proposing things "that the president of the United States is guaranteed to veto."
"If we want to be more aspirational, if we want to make more bold policy changes... that's for 2028."
Marissa D. Barrera retweeted
A new report on truancy in D.C. says that some Latino students are truant because the increased presence of ICE, other federal agents, and National Guard had "negative impact on their families." One kid said he was "genuinely afraid to step outside" after his dad was deported.
