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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Sep 6

#CDPAP #StopPPL

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/n...

Questions Arise Over Hiring of Firm to Run $11 Billion Health Care Program

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Second Ave. Sagas @2avesag.as · Jun 17

Look at this world-class asshole.

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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · May 11

AOC: "We need to be talking about ICE agents and the cowardly policy of covering their faces

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · May 12

An important thread on the proposed Medicaid cuts from Congress. $700 million in cuts tossing 8 million people off insurance.

#ProtectMedicaid

Bobby Kogan @bbkogan.bsky.social · May 12

Energy & Commerce text is out. Will go through it in this thread.

tl;dr: this'd be the largest Medicaid cuts in history, kicking millions off their health insurance, leading to tens of thousands of additional deaths each year

LOTS of bad stuff in this (but the very worst policy did not make it in)

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · May 7

It is #NationalAccessibilityBarriersDay. Here's to celebrating Public Partnerships, LLC (PPL) and their ability to make #CDPAP, a program by and for disabled folks, a beacon of inaccessibility throughout NY.

#SaveCDPAP #ProtectHomeCare

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Lindsey Boylan @lindseyboylan.bsky.social · Mar 31

Good morning. Monday morning. In a rank choice voting system you need to rank five good apples for mayor in addition to NOT ranking Cuomo and NOT ranking Adams.

Please help spread the word! Share share share!!!! Copy and redo in your own words if you prefer!

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Mar 6

I am with @algreen.house.gov.

#ProtectMedicaid. #Dissent

@paultonko.bsky.social - thank you for your no vote on censure.

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Mar 5

"The President has no mandate to cut Medicaid." @algreen.house.gov speaks truth.

#Medicaid provides life saving services for millions of people. It is a critical resource lifting up our health care system. We must #ProtectMedicaid & not let the President's incivility beat our civility.

Yukon Dellie @yukon-dellie.bsky.social · Mar 5

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Rep. Al Green speaks after being escorted out of Trump's speech to Congress

YouTube video by WFAA

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Medicaid Matters New York @medicaidmtrsny.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Because Medicaid is the largest source of federal revenue in states’ budgets, any cuts to federal funding will have immediate consequences on state economies." shorturl.at/yEaGk @nhelp.bsky.social #HandsOffMedicaid #ProtectMedicaid #MedicaidMatters

Medicaid Cuts Hurt State Economies

Federal Medicaid funds finance a little under 1/5 of states’ total spending. Because Medicaid is the largest source of federal revenue in states’ budgets, any cuts to federal funding will have immedia...

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Caring Majority Rising @caringmrising.bsky.social · Feb 27

🚨🚨🚨“Thousands of disabled New Yorkers could be forced into hospitals and nursing homes as
@govkathyhochul.bsky.social’s…overhaul of the Empire State’s $9 billion home care falters.” @nysdoh.bsky.social

nypost.com/2025/02/27/u...

Exclusive | Thousands of disabled NYers may be forced into hospitals, nursing homes as Hochul’s pro-union home care overhaul falters

In a damning letter sent to the state Department of Health, the New York Health Plan Association and other groups say that Hochul’s move to consolidate hundreds of middlemen in the CDPAP, is way be…

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Caring Majority Rising @caringmrising.bsky.social · Feb 27

So-called "waste, fraud, & abuse" is also @govkathyhochul.bsky.social's excuse for selling out Medicaid program CDPAP to a private corporation (when CDPAP has VERY low incidence of fraud).

Hochul should be defending home care & Medicaid, but she's working hand-in-hand w Republicans to destroy it.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · Feb 25

🔥 @aoc.bsky.social : “The numbers don’t add up. $880 BILLION is a devastating cut to Medicaid, and an attack on Medicare. Anyone who votes for this budget is voting to cut Medicaid and gut health care for Medicare recipients in 🇺🇸.”

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DGg7cr0...

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 27

I mean, who am I to question Emma Hayes, but of all the people Shaw could come on for, Ally Sentnor? Really? #USWNT #SheBelievesCup

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 27

How is Sonnet routinely in front of the midfield when attacking? #USWNT #SheBelievesCup

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 18

NY Legislators are at home in their districts. But budget work is still happening and the travesty that is PPL is still moving forward. Call them in their district offices this week to #StopPPL. #SaveCDPAP and #ProtectHomeCare

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 14

What happens when @govkathyhochul.bsky.social & her @nysdoh.bsky.social Commish insistence on cruel and ill-fated changes to home care's #CDPAP result in at least 80,000 people losing services?

www.wxxinews.org/new-york-pub...

'The math isn't mathing': Changes to home health care program faces criticism

The state wants to have about 280,000 customers enrolled in the Medicaid-run home health care program for the disabled and elderly to all use the same fiscal intermediary by April 1. Advocates call th...

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · Feb 14

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

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Caring Majority Rising @caringmrising.bsky.social · Feb 10

Has everyone seen this investigative article by Caring Majority leader, Michael Solow, on the transition of New York's CDPAP program to private-equity-backed corporation, PPL?

It's one of the best overviews of the situation—how it came about and the problems with PPL.

bit.ly/HomeCareGambit

‘They’d Rather We Be Dead’: New York’s Home Health Care Gambit

The state's plan for corporate control of home health care is chaotic, dangerous and a scandal in the making.

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 11

#NYSenatirGustavoRivera on CDPAP - how many workers are there?

@nysdoh.bsky.social Medicaid Director says "we don't know but we think between 200-300k" Senator notes 280k consumers, likely at least 1 per.

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 11

@nysdoh.bsky.social Medicaid Director just flatly stated in response to @harveyepstein.bsky.social that "nobody will lose their services."

A seeming promise. That definitely will not come back to bite him.

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 11

@nysdoh.bsky.social Commissioner just admitted the transition in #CDPAP might not happen timely. Only 22k have "completed" transition. That is 1 in 14.

Still says there is no Plan B. Puts onus on managed care plans to pay workers if the transition doesn't happen. Directly? How?

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Bobbie Sackman @bobbiesackman.bsky.social · Feb 11

@caringmrising.bsky.social The Health Commissioner just said the average phone call to PPL is 18 minutes. That's not real consumers' experience. Feel free to share this new video through networks.

vimeo.com/1055572239?s...

The Reality of PPL’s Home Care Transition: A Call That Says It All

This is what happened when one consumer called PPL’s transition hotline. The call lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes. It did not go well. This is PPL’s…

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 11

Commissioner says higher hospital and nursing home rates are needed to solve lack of hospital discharges and hospital overcrowding.

What about home care & #CDPAP and keeping people out of hospitals and nursing homes to begin with?

Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 11

@nysdoh.bsky.social Commissioner said advocates are lying. PPL is ahead of schedule. Avg call time is 18 minutes. And there is no Plan B.

What about this call?

vimeo.com/1055572239?s...

The Reality of PPL’s Home Care Transition: A Call That Says It All

This is what happened when one consumer called PPL’s transition hotline. The call lasted 1 hour and 35 minutes. It did not go well. This is PPL’s…

vimeo.com

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Bryan Marcou-O'Malley @bromalley.bsky.social · Feb 7

This is despicable. 100%.

No less despicable is refusing to impose greater taxes on the wealthy to make sure everyone has access to healthcare, high quality education, quality housing, social services, etc...

Both parties are guilty of that.