@teaseljones.bsky.social
Blue cat lady, artist, traveler, political junkie. Atheist. Retired Ops and Policy Analyst living in the PNW. Reads voraciously. Posts sparingly. Loves all creatures except caterpillars.
Issues within the Medicaid program cannot be corrected unless we
know what they are and to what extent they are costing us money. Cutting the budget does nothing other than fund tax cuts for the billionaires club. Fraud, waste, and abuse will continue unabated while the vulnerable suffer.
know what they are and to what extent they are costing us money. Cutting the budget does nothing other than fund tax cuts for the billionaires club. Fraud, waste, and abuse will continue unabated while the vulnerable suffer.
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Issues within the Medicaid program cannot be corrected unless we
know what they are and to what extent they are costing us money. Cutting the budget does nothing other than fund tax cuts for the billionaires club. Fraud, waste, and abuse will continue unabated while the vulnerable suffer.
know what they are and to what extent they are costing us money. Cutting the budget does nothing other than fund tax cuts for the billionaires club. Fraud, waste, and abuse will continue unabated while the vulnerable suffer.
When proper audits are done uncovering specific incidents of wrongdoing, legal remedies are pursued to secure repayment and/or criminal charges are filed. Systems and processes are examined and altered to mitigate opportunities for misuse. Save money by stopping the loses.
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
When proper audits are done uncovering specific incidents of wrongdoing, legal remedies are pursued to secure repayment and/or criminal charges are filed. Systems and processes are examined and altered to mitigate opportunities for misuse. Save money by stopping the loses.
Would arbitrarily slashing Medicaid funding prevent fraud, waste, and abuse from continuing to occur? How would you stop it without more than intuition to go on?
How much cutting is enough? It seems to me that your focus is on the wrong target.
How much cutting is enough? It seems to me that your focus is on the wrong target.
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Would arbitrarily slashing Medicaid funding prevent fraud, waste, and abuse from continuing to occur? How would you stop it without more than intuition to go on?
How much cutting is enough? It seems to me that your focus is on the wrong target.
How much cutting is enough? It seems to me that your focus is on the wrong target.
Intuitively: In a way that is based on feelings rather than facts or proof. (Cambridge English Dictionary)
It’s asinine to make cuts based upon feelings rather than facts, documentation, and proof of specific identifiable instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.
It’s asinine to make cuts based upon feelings rather than facts, documentation, and proof of specific identifiable instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Intuitively: In a way that is based on feelings rather than facts or proof. (Cambridge English Dictionary)
It’s asinine to make cuts based upon feelings rather than facts, documentation, and proof of specific identifiable instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.
It’s asinine to make cuts based upon feelings rather than facts, documentation, and proof of specific identifiable instances of fraud, waste, and abuse.
“Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse. Everyone knows that. We all know it intuitively. No one here would disagree.”-Mike Johnson
This is ridiculous. Everyone there should disagree with what he said. We all should, and demand more of our representatives.
This is ridiculous. Everyone there should disagree with what he said. We all should, and demand more of our representatives.
February 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
“Medicaid is hugely problematic because it has a lot of fraud, waste, and abuse. Everyone knows that. We all know it intuitively. No one here would disagree.”-Mike Johnson
This is ridiculous. Everyone there should disagree with what he said. We all should, and demand more of our representatives.
This is ridiculous. Everyone there should disagree with what he said. We all should, and demand more of our representatives.
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I would love this and believe it will lead him to the white house in 2028
January 28, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I would love this and believe it will lead him to the white house in 2028
I like Chris Cornell’s cover, too.
January 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM
I like Chris Cornell’s cover, too.
A beautifully moving yet horrifying song.
January 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
A beautifully moving yet horrifying song.
Knightrides? That sounds ominous.
January 28, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Knightrides? That sounds ominous.
In 73 years of living and traveling around Oregon, I’ve never seen these giant water pipes or faucets. It rains a lot in Western Oregon; the other 2/3s are high desert and arid. We have farms to irrigate,wildfires,droughts, and water rights regulating who gets what water & how much. CA not included
January 28, 2025 at 6:45 AM
In 73 years of living and traveling around Oregon, I’ve never seen these giant water pipes or faucets. It rains a lot in Western Oregon; the other 2/3s are high desert and arid. We have farms to irrigate,wildfires,droughts, and water rights regulating who gets what water & how much. CA not included
I’m with you. A lot of breath wasted in this post. Just a name would be enough.
January 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM
I’m with you. A lot of breath wasted in this post. Just a name would be enough.
This was posted by Occupy Democrats in 2019. If it were possible, I’d say he’s now worse.
January 26, 2025 at 7:23 PM
This was posted by Occupy Democrats in 2019. If it were possible, I’d say he’s now worse.
In fact if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws he would make a Trump.
& a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God…what…have…I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
& a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God…what…have…I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
January 26, 2025 at 7:20 PM
In fact if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws he would make a Trump.
& a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God…what…have…I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
& a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish:
'My God…what…have…I… created?
If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set."
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
January 26, 2025 at 7:16 PM
God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid.
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
January 26, 2025 at 7:15 PM
After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
January 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
* Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
* You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
January 26, 2025 at 7:12 PM
So the fact that a significant minority - perhaps a third - of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman would never do. Every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
January 26, 2025 at 7:11 PM
There are unspoken rules to this stuff - the Queensberry rules of basic decency - and he breaks them all. He punches downwards - which a gentleman would never do. Every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless - and he kicks them when they are down.
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms minto a snivelling sidekick instead.
January 26, 2025 at 7:08 PM
That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms minto a snivelling sidekick instead.
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
January 26, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.
He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat.
He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully.